Guinness World Records are yet to respond to the query regarding the recently held Landrover Parade staged in Tanzania and which is claimed to have broken the global record previously set by Germany.
Guinness have been posting recent achievements on its website as well as social media platforms, including Instagram, Facebook, Threads, Linked and ‘X’.
However, the collector of World Records is not mentioning anything about the Landrover Parade which was recently held in Arusha City and whose organizers claim it broke the World Record previously set in Germany.
The Public Relations Executive at the Guiness World Records Limited Alina Polianskaya said while they had never heard of the Arusha Landrover event, they would look into the issue after the Tanzania Times brought it to their attention.
Polianskaya response came after various earlier efforts to contact Guinness World Records, through their social media outlets and emails.
The contacts were previously unsuccessful in that they neither responded nor acknowledged the communications until later.
But some experts in the field say, usually before Guiness award such merit, their team must be present to ensure the process goes according to their standards.
The Northern Tanzanian City of Arusha recently gathered a battery of Landrover vehicles, both old and new and paraded the Four-Wheel-Drive machines along a distance of nearly 50 kilometers.
The Landrover convoy started its journey from the area near the Kilimanjaro International Airport junction all the way to the open space just beyond the Arusha Domestic Airport.
Organizers of the event coordinated through the Regional Commissioner’s office later claimed that there were more than 1070 Landrovers making the procession, which climaxed at the Magereza open area in Kisongo area, along Dodoma Road.
Tanzania was trying to break the Guinness World Record currently held by the Bavarian Town of Germany for staging the longest Landrover trucks’ procession on single file.
The current Guinness World Record for the longest snake of Landrovers is the one recorded in 2018, which lined up a total of 632 trucks that wound their way around the Spa Town of Bad Kissingen in Bavaria, Germany.
The German parade stretched over 7.4 kilometers.
Tanzania, on the other hand, is reported to have recorded 1078 entries, among which 1035 managed to make it into the convoy.
The Landrover string was stretching on a single file of 13 kilometers long, bumper to bumper.
For the first day in Arusha, the Landrover procession started at the King’ori area, near Kilimanjaro International Airport.
The cars drove into the city via Usa-River, Tengeru and Sanawari, turned into the East Africa Road towards the Clock Tower, which is the Center Point between Cape-Town and Cairo.
The Landies then paraded through the main Uhuru Street, along Sokoine Road, went up the Colonel Middleton Road, took the Namanga Road and then landed at Magereza grounds near the Arusha Airport in Kisongo.
The target here was again meant to set a record of the largest Land-Rover gathering on a single patch of land.
The second day sees the Landrovers driving into the Arusha National Park at the foot of Mount Meru. Here 300 vehicles drive into the conservancy to create another historical feat in having the highest number of four-wheelers in a single park.