A L Holt

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Major A. L. Holt MBE MC (1896 - 1971) was a British military officer and explorer. [1]

In the 1920s when a member of the Royal Engineers, Holt led a number of motorized expeditions through the deserts of Arabia, the first time such long journeys had been undertaken with such a large number of vehicles. Holt was particularly fond of Ford cars, which he found eminently suited to such purposes.

Holt traveled on occasion with St. John Philby and Gerard Leachman.

In 1923 he proposed a suitable route for a transarabian railway which he had personally surveyed using Ford cars. [2]

"I have taken a convoy of Fords 350 miles in the desert without touching water. The extraordinary advantage of this in reconnaissance needs no emphasis."

The railway was never built.

[edit] References

  1. ^ Eid Al Yahya, Travellers in Arabia, (Stacey International, 2006). ISBN 9780955219313
  2. ^ The Geographical Journal, Vol. 62, No. 4 (Oct., 1923), pp. 259-268 [1]



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