To Moscow in 34 Hours Running Time
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FROM JOHN MOON MOSCOW, Monday.
AFTER covering 1,713 road miles in a Thames-Duple .20-seat coach in 44 hours 57 minutes, I arrived in this city at 7.44 p.m_ local time (4.44 p.m. G.M.T.) yesterday. As a member of a party of 17 I left Victoria Coach Station at 8.47 p.m. B.S.T. on Friday. The journey was completed in the incredible running time of 33 hours 48 minutes. The balance of the overall time was spent on the ferry from Dover to Ostend (a six-hour trip of 61 miles) and in frontier delays.
The vehicle was extraordinarily comfortable—as good, indeed, as the large air-sprung coaches in which I have covered hundreds of miles in America. It cruised at 65 m.p.h. for many miles and averaged 51.16 m.p.h. for the entire journey. No mechanical failure was experienced.
The outward journey was via Ostend, Brussels, Aachen, Diisseldorf, Hanover, Warsaw, Brest, Minsk and Moscow. We are returning by the same route and expect to arrive at Victoria Coach Station at 5.30 p.m. on Saturday. The trip has been arranged by the Ford Motor Co., Ltd., and Excelsior Tours, of Bournemouth.
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