MOTORING ENDURANCE.
THRILLING EPISODES. A DRAMATIC ESCAPE. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn.) PARIS, Dec. 12. Mr and Mrs Victor Bruce, who are attempting to establish many new motoring records at the Monthery track, Paris, and to cover 15,000 miles in ten days and nights, yesterday covered 1900 miles in 24 hours, averaging SO miles an hour. Mrs Bruce maintained 80 miles an hour for a period of nine hours while her husband slept. The motorists experienced a dramatic escape while driving through a thick fog. Twice the car nearly went off the track. Mrs Bruce gave the steering wheel a wrench and the car careered on two side wheels until jt regained . its course.
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Waikato Times, Volume 102, Issue 17277, 13 December 1927, Page 7
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114MOTORING ENDURANCE. Waikato Times, Volume 102, Issue 17277, 13 December 1927, Page 7
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