Album of photographs from the trip to North Africa

Page 1. Photographs titled enroute for Marseilles and Tunis from England dated January 1933. The top one illustrates a Hillman car pulling a caravan through the snow in Northern France. The lower one shows the vehicles beside the Roman arch at Orange, Vaucluse Department.

Page 2. In Tunisia: A wayside water hole near Medinin. In the township of Ben Gardane, on the frontier of Tripolttania.

Page 3. In Tripolitainia, a group of Arabs at the frontier post. A broken-down native wagon near Misurata.

Page 4. Typical scenery in Tripolitainia: sandy ‘piste’ in the En Nofilia region and stony going near El Agheila.

Page 5. En route in Tripolitania: Wayside lunch (Harold Pemberton nearest the camara). Pemberton pilots the car through the desert.

Page 6. En route in Tripolitania: The desert sand breaks into deep fissures and a new track has frequently to be carved out by the travellers.

Page 7. En route in Tripolitania: Where the sand is soft the car is extricated with planks. Another view of the “plank game”. The fort of En Nofilla is in the background. These desert forts are walled round, with barbed wire entanglements outside, and a watch tower which is always manned against attacks by unfriendly Arabs.

Page 8. At a Cyrenaican desert fort. The solitary officer and his chief N.C.O. are very friendly. Group (left to right): Italian N.C.O., D.H. Noble, Italian Officer, A.C. Scarff, Harold Pemberton and W. Hellyer. Our Arab guide takes his midday meal: coffee brewed over a scrub fire and a piece of unleavened bread. He scorned European food offered him.

Page 9. En route in Cyrenaica: The track consists of basalt rock – very bumpy. Halt for lunch amid utter desolation – typical Libya.

Page 10. Arrival at Derna: The first town we encountered with walls and gates. Reception by the Military Governor of Cyrenaica.

Page 11. In Derna: This was one of the most attractive spots in the whole of Libya. There seemed plenty of water from the numerous palms and banana trees. The Italian school marm is seen in the centre background, and some of her native charges are also visible.

Page 12. En route in Cyrenaica: On the strada built by Mussolini’s orders, near Barce. Muddy and boggy going on the high ground above Derna.

Page 13. In the mud near Derna. Using a chain and tackle to extricate the caravan. Digging mud away from the caravan wheels to free it.

Page 14. Natives building the Strada: Italian officers examine passports while natives toil at road making on their behalf. In the barrack square at Tobruch.

Page 15. Egypt at last. Sandy track near Mersa Matruh. Mud being dumped on road at side of Nile between Alexandria and Cairo.

Page 16. Just bare room on the bridge. Official reception at Cairo Motor Show.

Page 17. Cairo Motor Show. The front of the Hillman with a pyramid in the background.