MOTOR-CAR FOR BIG GAME.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume VII, Issue 2143, 28 December 1920, Page 8

MOTOR-CAR FOR BIG GAME.

EQUIPMENT INCLUDES COCKTAIL BAR. Complete with "cocktail bar," tha largest touring motor-car in the world is now in Paris. It was built for a Belgian millionaire to take a party big-game shooting in Africa, and is now owned by an esnaval officer. The car %as seating accommodation for 15 people, and 8t night "nine can sleep on spring bed* with every comfort. The car is built in two section*. In front is a small tender fitted with high-power engine, .and behind is a larga coach on three wheels, which is really the car proper. The owner explained that he intended using it for conveying tourists to Prance on visits to the battlefields. On entering the car, to the right stands tho bar. Underneath this is the "wine cellar." The bar can be forded up at night and turned into a bad for the steward. Opposite the bar Is the cooking range, complete in every detail, and heated by a 10 h.p. electric motor, which also forms part of the driving fores of the car over rough country. The next compartment contains the living and dining-room. It almost looks like a Pullman coach. Bound the whole lengfc. of the room runs an upholstered seat, which, when pulled out, is transformed into a number of beds. Wardrobes are lot into the' sides of the walls. Special gun racks have been boils over the seats, and a special filial window, which can be let down whoa necessary, is at the end of the coach. The interior of the car is tastefully decorated in grey, and glitters with mirrors around the walls.