BROKE THE RECORD.
THE BRUGES' ACHIEVEMENT. TRIUMPH FOR BRITAIN. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, December 19. The achievement of -Mr and Mrs Victor Bruce of breaking the previous 15,000 miles motoring record was made the more remarkable by a delay of 21 hours, which was due to the car's skidding and overturning on the frozen Montlhery, Paris, track, and to the intensely cold weather in which the run was made.
Mrs Bruce bore the brunt of the discomfort during the last two days, and her fingers and hands were frostbitten and her left arm almost frozen when finally the course was accomplished.
The windscreen had been smashed in an accident, and the motorists would not wait for it to be repaired before resuming the run. They were thus further exposed to the weather. Mrs Bruce was carried from the car shoulder-high by enthusiastic spectators. The car, petrol, and oil used were all of British manufacture.
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Waikato Times, Volume 102, Issue 17284, 21 December 1927, Page 7
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