 There is a monument to this effect on Kenyatta Avenue.In 1923, Galton Fenzi started negotiating for loan cars so that they could be tested under East African conditions.He received several vehicles, notably among them a Riley 12/50 from the Riley Motor Car Co. Ltd. of Coventry, which was used by Fenzi and Captain Gethin to pioneer a route from Nairobi to Mombasa in January 1926, a distance of 300 miles.