To India by Land-Rover
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AUSTRALIAN, New Zealand and British tourists will be among those who will leave London on Sunday to drive to Bombay in six hired Land-Rover Dormobile caravans. They will include men and women of varying ages and occupations, among them nurses, company directors. housewives, an electrician, a farmer and a pharmacist_
Each Dormobile is fully equipped for sleeping, cooking, washing, meals and water supply. • The party will cross Europe, the Balkans and the Holy Land before tackling the deserts of Iran and climbing over the mountains of the North-West Frontier into India.
In a journey of 60 days they will see Istanbul, Baalbek, Jerusalem and Bethlehem, Damascus, Mount Arrarat, Isfahan and the Taj Mahal.
Behind the .venture is Mr. Paddy Garrow Fisher, of Kingston upon Thames, who holds the London to Calcutta car record. He knows the route intimately through driving his -" Indiaman .coaches over it on their regular service. Mr. Garrow-Fisher will himself drive the leading Dormobile.
The travellers will sail to their homes from India and another. group will be waiting in Bombay to drive the vehicles back to Britain.
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