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NEXT STOP, SAHARA!
By A. P. Garland.
MOTORING SUPPLEMENT.
I dozen other volumes of the kind, it will be admitted that I am on- Utled to be the spokesman of the great African waste,
The French, I regret to say, have been the first 'to' lny kacrilegious hands on the Sahara: Nothing, we Much as I admire Captain Camp know, is sacred to a anpper, and bell and his motoring achieve-French engineers have run a enter ments, I cannot but regret his pre-pillar motor coach service in the sant Intention of ransacking the Moroccan hinterland, Sahara in order to find a suitable racing track for another attempt on the speed, record,
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SATURDAY, MARCH 2, 1929.
TRIALS.
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Erskine's Good Performance.
WINS PRIZE TROPHY.
fiéd speed throughout the test. Ometals were statiónéd 'at 'fivel open control pointą and two hidden checking points. Failure to maintain the specified speed and arrive on time it ench chiöck ing point resulted in the loss of one point for the 30 seconds the entrant was behind or ahead of scheduled time.
Highest honours in the Barber- Thirty-four contestants entered ton Rollability Trial, South the trial, 'of 'which seven failed to What a dismal thought · The eternal silence of those Bandy Africa motor classic, were by start. Nineteen complete the wastes broken by raucous-voleed Block model Erskine Six Sedon Geoints, and followed by two run, the Erskine Six leading with It is one of the thin ends of the men shouting "Outside only" according to word received competitors who tied for second many wedges that are being driven which must sound perfectly terrible The Studebaker Corporation of with 967 points. Into the magie beauty of the my-in French, or "Fares, please,”
America. The Erskine, piloted by sterious desert, which has such a
Again, when Captain Campbell Alec Mackintosh, amateur driver, in winning the South African event The triumph of the Erskine Six wonderful message for all who, has finished with his newly-discover- Bike myself, can grasp it.
I mention myself advisedly. When it is remembered that I am the author of "Highways and By- ways of the Sahara," "Unknown Bits of the Sahara," "Off the Bea- ten Track in the Sahara," and a
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ed track, along will come a tribe of scored 960 points out of a possible adds "other performance feat to hard-faced men, who will start dirt- 1,000, to win the grand untional the long list of records held, by track racing, with Sprouts Frogley cup, two gold medals and a certi Studebaker-built and Co. puncturing with loud barka ficate of merit. the serene harmony of the moonlit desert. Appalling!
cars, Among which are flyd world records, 114 offlelul "American racords and 48 Australian reeprds.*****
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REMEDIES SQUEAK.
The Barberton Reliability is an After that will come filling stat- event organized by the Rand Motor ions-
Cycling Club, Johannesburg, Continuous as the stars that Transvaal, and is open to all typesj shine
of private motor vehicles and bothi And gleam along the Milky Way amateur and trade drivers. This Feland hbardinga urging travel. year the test was conducted over a traced to a point where' the hoodj
An annoying squeak pften can be
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tor. Metal-to-metal contact is avoided-here by the manufacturers) But vulgarisation at ita worst The first day's run led from through the use of fabric stripa. will not begin until the Sahara be Johannesburg through Delmas to These strips become glazed and comes a fashionable place for piente Witbank, Middleburg, Wonder produce a squeak that proves most partiesa fate that inevitably fontaine, Carolina and 83 miles disconcerting to driver and passen Awaits it. Then we shall see the over the mountains to Barberton, gers. A few drops of oil will re whole desert infested with family a distance of 260 miles. The ro store these strips to theis desired] groups, who will leave behind, en turn trip was made over the same softness, Bouvenir, battles, ham-bones, tin route two days later. cans, cartons for hot-or more like ly cold-doga, chocolate-boxes and pieces of greasy newspaper.
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Huppily, there are still a few! Arabs left of the old ferocious breed-man who swing a mean spear. They may be trusted to keep the early pienickers in order. But numbers will inevitably prevail.
Based on engine capacity and class of driver, ench competitor was required to maintain a speci-
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As for the sheikh-I can see no hope for him. He will never ven- ture to try any Lochinvar stunt on Fatima, his favourite camel, when] the and Fatima "is apt to run
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In all probability, he of the pler- cing black eyes and glamorous ways will find it moro profitable to don al soit of plusfours, hire an ice- wagon, and dare forth with the legend; Stop Me and: Buy One."
Ichabod The romance of the desert will vanish. F
I have just discovered from m reference book that the Sahara has an area of 3,500,000. amare miles. This means, of course, that the complete vulgarisation of the placej will take quite a little time.
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