New maxtrax just released!

[Jaysea]

New version maxtrax just released





If you really want to know about the pic......

Misses Robertson and Howell, the Melbourne motorists who are the first Australian women to motor around Australia, and who set out on this undertaking on June 2, have reached Darwin, after a successful though arduous journey. Naturally, their experiences have been many and varied and as they are not attempting a speed record, they have had ample time to enjoy the unusual scenes through which they have passed. They followed a route from Adelaide to Oodnadatta via Kingoouya, instead of the more usual route, via Marree, but owing to unusually heavy   rains, they encountered some difficulties, and were bogged several times. However, with the true pioneer spirit — without which these girls would never have undertaken the journey — they extricated their 'Lancia' and drove on. For negotiating stretches of drift sand they had to resort to  laying down 40-yard lengths of coir matting to provide traction for the wheels. The ladies who are travelling on 'Shell' Spirit and Oil throughout, carried extra supplies of petrol from Oodnadatta, the southern railhead, in an attempt to reach the northern railhead at Katherine without replenishing supplies en route. They will return through Queensland and New South Wales.

[edz]

This is a good find Jaysea, love seeing how the O'l timers worked out things..... Guessing thats where the use of lengths of shade cloth came from, before Maxtrax and the like .

[Kit_e_kat9]

Just like edz, they seemed to " IMPROVISE  ADAPT and  OVERCOME ".  Excellent find.

Kit_e

[Jeepers Creepers]

Be helpful if both front wheels were pointing in the same direction or is it just my eyes.

Most likely bashed the kerb somewhere trying to park it i'm guessing.

[noel_w]

It's a Lancia, what do you expect?

[Barry G]

That vehicle and it's crew would leave most of us for dead I recon.