"Travel in a Dead World"
Autumn 1927 - Cairo to Siwa - Western Desert

It is Autumn 1927 and Ralph A Bagnold (Royal Corps of Signals) and his fellow officers Lt. E Bader and Cpt. V F Craig MC (Royal Engineers); Lt. R J Maunsell, Lt. G L Prendergast and Lt. I B Fernie (Royal Tank Corps), are out in the Western Desert attempting to make the first four hundred mile crossing from Cairo to Siwa oasis, Libya, by motorcar in their three Ford Model Ts.