After leaving Middleton Ponds Station, the Board needed to travel to Angas Downs, a cattle station owned by Bill Liddle, where a camel string had been arranged to transport them to Uluru. This location is referred to as 'Liddle's Place' in the Enquiry's evidence, and 'Little's place' in Mountford's diary.

Mountford wrote of their transport woes on page 7-8 of his diary:

'As we had eight passengers and seating accommodation for only four, White and myself decided to ride on the load. The riding position was bad enough, but more exhausting still was the climbing aboard after we had expended all available energy helping the truck over the bad spots. It was the same procedure every time. The truck would struggle up a sandhill, getting slower and slower, until with one dying gasp, the engine would expire. Everyone would then jump off, dig the sand from the wheels, and carry over prickly spinifex boughs and sticks to be in the track. We would then push and heave at the back of the truck until it extricated itself, then with a flying leap with whatever energy was left, land breathless and gasping like a dying fish on the lorry'.

Mountford goes on to write that as a result of all the low gear work, the gearbox overheated and sprayed boiling oil over the floorboards and the occupants of the truck cabin.

Mountford, Charles P, (Charles Pearcy), 1890-1976

Commonwealth Board of Enquiry into the alleged ill-treatment of Aborigines near Ayers Rock, 1935

Lamshed, Max, 'Monty' : the biography of C.P. Mountford, [Adelaide] : Rigby, 1972

Mountford, Charles P., Manuscript diary, Journey to Ayers Rock, 1935, PRG 1218/5/3, pages 7-9

Warden, James. 'T.G.H. Strehlow and the 1935 Board of Inquiry into the alleged ill-treatment of Aborigines' in Traditions in the midst of change : communities, cultures and the Strehlow legacy in Central Australia : proceedings of the Strehlow Conference, Alice Springs 18-20 September 2002, Alice Springs, N.T. : Strehlow Research Centre, 2004, pp. 89-100