The Court Treatt Expedition 1924-1926

[Correus]

When 'overlanding' was actually OVERLANDING.

The Court Treatt Cape to Cairo expedition

Be sure to check out the roofs of the vehicles, they coukd be joined together to create a boat.

 

[Anak]

That is pretty neat.

I like the details about the river crossings, particularly the ones involving taking the cars across on the bottom of the river. The rope with the buoy on it sounds like something learned from someone else's previous failure.

What came to mind for me is a car on display in the Blackhawk museum. It would have been from the same era. It was found in the bottom of a river in Africa. I now have a better sense of how it would have wound up there.

 

[Correus]

That is pretty neat.

I like the details about the river crossings, particularly the ones involving taking the cars across on the bottom of the river. The rope with the buoy on it sounds like something learned from someone else's previous failure.

What came to mind for me is a car on display in the Blackhawk museum. It would have been from the same era. It was found in the bottom of a river in Africa. I now have a better sense of how it would have wound up there.

If you liked that - check out the following, especially the one dealing with the 1959/1960 "Trans-Darien Expedition"

Range Rover Darien Gap - Range Rover Classic

Land-Rover og Range Rover

sites.google.com

There's also the following - about four Brits driving a single, SII Rover from Tierra del Fuego in Argentina to Fairbanks Alaska - their goal was tge Arctic Circle though.

The Arctic Circle - 55 Years Later: The Cambridge Trans-America Expedition - Rovers Magazine

In 1960, four British university graduates shipped a Land Rover to Argentina to start the “Cambridge Trans-American Expedition” to the Arctic Circle

blog.roversnorth.com

To me these, as well as a few others, are the best examples of overlanding I can think of IMHO.