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Advertisement for Republic Enduro Stainless Steel used in custom expedition trailers for an African journey.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 132\1\ scan0126 | |
| Date | 11th March 1939 | |
| 34 Cruising Darkest Africa Commander Gatti Lives in Luxury as He Penetrates Equatorial “No-Man’s-Land” to Seek the Man-killing Mulahu, the Pre-historic Okwapi, Rare Birds and Insects, Exotic Plants and Flowers, and New Data Unknown to Science. Gatti uses a camera which looks and shoots like a rifle. Imagine if you can, day after day of battling jungle mud and matted vegetation, fighting venomous reptiles, ants and insects that sting and bite. Yet at day's end, a refreshing shower in a bath-room of porcelain and stainless steel! And then to sit down to a dinner of cold meats, iced salads and frozen desserts—right where the steaming humidity is so terrific that freshly-killed game spoils in two hours! * Just such a dream had Commander and Mrs. Attilio Gatti—just such a life have they been living for nearly a year in the depths of Equatorial Africa. It is sixty years since Stanley opened the first white man's trails into the mysterious Belgian Congo. Today the heart of that vast area of well-nigh impenetrable tropical forests is still unknown. Inhabited only by black pygmies and strange beasts out of nightmares, this is Commander Gatti's chosen field of work. He will bring back scientific data, collections of native art, phonograph records of native music and language, color movies of strange animals and birds, and specimens of unknown plants and flowers. And he promises to bring back, dead or alive, the mulahu, giant ape-like creature that walks like a man. On a previous expedition, seven of Gatti's pygmy attendants were slaughtered in one swoop by one of these behemoths as he flashed through their party. Last year Gatti set out on his 10th expedition—this time equipped to live comfortably in the midst of peril and adventure. For now his party is housed and hauled in the most modern streamlined trailers ever built—electrified, refrigerated, air-conditioned, and radio equipped—his Jungle-Yachts. For economy of costs, space and weight, the builders followed the modern industrial practice of all-welded stainless steel construction, and thus, ENDURO*, Republic's Stainless Steel is today, flashing through the Belgian Congo. REPUBLIC ENDURO STAINLESS STEEL March 11, 1939 When writing to advertisers please mention Automotive Industries Automotive Industries | ||