04-04-2020, 04:08 PM
The account of the sinking is interesting. Until the weather improved they were at very great peril. As a boy my grandparents had photo centrepages from a local weekly. The photos of crew manipulating a giant baling bucket etc were impressive. (The propshaft broke and the prop probably gashed the hull as well and the ship very slowly filled and eventually sank) . The other bloke was the mechanical one and main driver. The book has very little about the actual car; could all fit on two pages. And road features etc which would be remarkable today then were not. However the book is an interesting reflection on ways and attitudes of the time. The pair were effectively upper class Poms; modern commentators would be bemused and horrified. Comments about personalities would get you sued today. I reviewed it some long time ago