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David Turner and Tim Pickhard arrived in John O’ Groat’s, Scotland, after setting out four days earlier from Land’s End, in a battery-powered Freight Rover Leyland Sherpa driven by a Lucas electric motor

Monday 23rd December 1985

David Turner and Tim Pickhard arrived in John O’ Groat’s, Scotland, after setting out four days earlier from Land’s End, in a battery-powered Freight Rover Leyland Sherpa driven by a Lucas electric motor. They travelled the 875 miles on a single battery charge, completing the longest battery-powered drive in history.

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