The World's Longest Taxi Fare

Cover Type: Hardcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: Fine
Publisher: Graffiti
Publisher Place: Australia
Publisher Year: 2014
Edition: First Edition

Description: 224 pages. Ex-Library. (only one small stamp on inside page). Book and Jacket appear to have hardly been read and are both in Fine condition throughout.

Publishers Description: Motor Service Provider, Charlie Heard, was engaged to carry three ladies on a daring outback adventure in 1930. Ada Beal, Lil Wilmot and Eileen Glenny were Charlies intrepid passengers. He drove them in his Hudson taxi from Lorne in Victoria, up through the red centre to Darwin, and back down to Victoria via Brisbane and Sydney. A real outback adventure before made roads existed outside the main cities. Charlies Hudson travelled just over 7000 miles on the trip and it took almost three months to complete the journey. Charlies grandchildren re-created the trip 78 years later in a 1928 Essex. This book has been produced in two parts, the initial adventure as experienced by Charlie Heard and his passengers and the second part, the re-creation of the trip by Charlies grandchildren in 2008 and recorded in a diary by Ron Heard.

ISBN: 9780949398994