MONTE CARLO RALLY
MOTOR CAR TEST. (British Official Wireless.) . Rugby, January 21. There are 55 British entrants, representing one-third of the total, for the' Monte Carlo rally which is generally recognized as a most severe motor car test. . ■ .. ■ The entrants started their journeys from various points on Saturday, there being six Continental routes from Norway, Sweden, Esthonia, Roumama, Greece and Sicily, and one across Britain, starting at John o’Groats. Of the 23 cars following the lastnamed route, all except one, which retired owing to the illness of a passenger, arrived at Folkestone this moring for the Channel crossing. The cars and their drivers have to reach Monte Carlo early on Wednesday, averaging 20 miles an hour from the start to the finish, with the exception that the speed has to be increased to 30 miles an hour for the last 600 miles.
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Southland Times, Issue 22488, 24 January 1935, Page 4
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