Word: lsingborg
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Other drivers, crossing natural and national frontiers, had less hair-raising or unhappy tales to tell. But most had delays and troubles. The Stockholm starters, who had to cross over on the ferry from Hälsingborg, got bogged down when a French gendarme sent them on a 30-kilometer detour. The Palermo starters, who ran into the toughest driving of all, had to ferry across the Strait of Messina and take a railroad flatcar ride through the Simplon Tunnel. They also hit fog at Florence and sleet at Milan. Though the Italians got a special dispensation to exceed...
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