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Show Motoring Expense Kept Low by Traveling Slow Motorists who compare upkeep and costs are all left in the shade by the feat of three Britons who drove a second-hand car 12,000 miles from Sing-apore Sing-apore to London on 5. It was not phenomenally low gas consumption or everlasting tires which made the exploit possible, but the fact that the motorists took 15 months to complete the journey and worked on odd Jobs whenever funds ran too low. The ear reached England in fairly good shape, with the exception of a new front axle constructed from an old. boiler tube picked up in Asiatic Turkey when the old axle smashed after the car bad fallen Into a ravine. |