Across Australia in record time
For my video; youtu.be/c3GBSGmVlCs?si=hBPdwZiiP8cYmcmM,
Departing Darwin on October 1926, Francis Birtles drove the Bean 14 motor car down to Melbourne in eight days. This was the first time any motor car had driven from Darwin to Sydney and then to Melbourne continuously.
Francis Birtles set out again in the Sundowner in 1927 to make the first overland journey between London and Melbourne using a motor vehicle. In a record-breaking feat over nine months, Birtles covered 26,000 km of land, boarding ships, an oil tanker and a bamboo punt to cross waterways.
Bean 14 motor car,
Sundowner,
National Museum of Australia,
Canberra, ACT, Australia
Across Australia in record time
For my video; youtu.be/c3GBSGmVlCs?si=hBPdwZiiP8cYmcmM,
Departing Darwin on October 1926, Francis Birtles drove the Bean 14 motor car down to Melbourne in eight days. This was the first time any motor car had driven from Darwin to Sydney and then to Melbourne continuously.
Francis Birtles set out again in the Sundowner in 1927 to make the first overland journey between London and Melbourne using a motor vehicle. In a record-breaking feat over nine months, Birtles covered 26,000 km of land, boarding ships, an oil tanker and a bamboo punt to cross waterways.
Bean 14 motor car,
Sundowner,
National Museum of Australia,
Canberra, ACT, Australia