London, May 20.
A. War Office report, records fine performance by British motor vehicles in the southern Sudan. atween Jamuary 18, when a convoy of four military vehicles left Cairo, on April 16, when a journey of 5,600 miles was completed. Only a negligible proportion of this mileage was Trackless desert ground represented 1,650 miles, black cotton soil 1,600 miles, very heavy, sand 400 miles, and hard gravel or sandy soi) 1,280 miles only five puncture and no accidents occur The convoy comprised a Cross six-wheel lorry, a Commer fou wheel lorry, a Morris commercial yan and a9 lip. Riley ear.
The report says that other makes of vehicles of these typ would have been equally ful and the War 1 fied that British car and lorry inanufueturers are now producing vehicles eminently suitable for Imjerial_and Colonial employment Wireless Through Reuter.
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