REGULAR 6,000 MILE TOUR

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1078, 16 September 1930, Page 6

REGULAR 6,000 MILE TOUR

BIG AUSTRALIAN TRANSPORT Rapidity with which automotive road transportation has developed in Australia even during the past few years is strikingly illustrated by the casualness of the departure and return of the motor coaches that are today accomplishing long distance overland trips. When, in 1924, the Dunlop Rubber t Co. succeeded in raising donations to j the value of £2,250 toward the necessary £4,000 required to organise a great national motor-car contest across the continent, from Darwin to Adelaide, many opinions were publicly expressed that the route rendered such a contest impracticable. The proposed event was dropped owing to insufficient funds being available to ensure the success of the undertaking. That the proposed contest was practicable is today demonstrated by the fact that comfortable motor coaches j carrying tourists now' run to a time j schedule across this particular trails- j i continental route. One trip just concluded is that ; organised by the Pioneer Motors Co., 1 of Melbourne. 6,200 MILES “RUN” Leaving that city on July 3, one of | their motor coaches, accompanied by a I luggage car, has just taken a party of ! j 12 tourists around a 6,200 miles circuit, j ! embracing Adelaide, Alice Springs, and j Darwin —thence back to Melbourne via | Queensland and N.S.W. i The party was always in touch with ! 1 the capital cities by wireless, and had i ; a particularly enjoyable trip. The I circuit took 56 days, averaging 775 j miles w'eekly. Such motor tours indicate very j definitely the far-reaching scope of j motor coaching for journeys into and : across Australia.