A SEVERE TEST
MOTOR RALLY TO MONTE CARLO.
HAIR-RAISING ADVENTURES.
(United Press Assn.—Telegraph Copyright.) Monte Carlo, January 23. The car rally is providing hair-raising adventures. One driver, falling asleep, crashed over a precipice, but was uninjured, though the car was smashed. Another from Palermo encountered a snowstorm in the Apennines, a sandstorm in Austria, and then extreme cold. . , A Briton driving from Umea in tne “Arctic Circle” saw eight cars upside down near the German frontier. Another crashed into a motor lorry aßer a gale had swept away the windscreen. Cathcart Jones, driving a Stavanger, was the first arrival at the rally, which he described as more strenuous than the Melbourne air race.
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Southland Times, Issue 22489, 25 January 1935, Page 7
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