Abstract
Abstract The first car journey from England to India was made by Major F. A. C. Forbes-Leith in 1924. The journey, undertaken in a 14 hp Wolseley, Colonial pattern, began in Leeds on Sunday 27 April 1924, and ended five and a half months later in Quetta, at that time in the Baluchistan province of India and now in Pakistan. The distance covered in 96 running days was 8,527 miles. So that the expedition could pay for itself, it was decided to make a travel fIlm, and also to contribute travel pieces to the press. Major Forbes-Leith took the wheel, choosing Allan Wroe to keep a diary, from which the newspaper articles were to be written, and Montagu Redknap to make the fIlm. Though the three started together from Leeds, Wroe fell sick in Teheran and the journey was completed by Major Forbes-Leith and Redknap.
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