J.L. Burton behind the wheel along with Tom Smith are seen posing outside of Dennys Lascelles Garage, located on Elizabeth Street in Melbourne, Australia with their record breaking 1918 Hupmobile. The route Burton and Smith followed was from Fremantle to Sydney via Broken Hill. The pair was only one of many to at the time to attempt to better a record set in 1915 with a Studebaker.

The duo left Fremantle on January 29, 1918, and arrived in Sydney on February 5, 1918. They travelled 2,677 miles in seven-days, 2 hours and 17 minutes, with an average speed of 15.7 miles per hour. You can read about part of their trip here and see other photos in an article that was in the Bunbury Herald on March 9, 1918.

After the journey, Burton wrote the book: Across Australia in Seven Days. The trip appears to have been sponsored in part by Barnett-Glass Boomerang Tires and the Hupmobile Importer (see the Press ad above left). The photo from the Harold Paynting Collection is courtesy of the State Library of Victoria.