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15 years 5 months ago #5508 by Swishy
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I can Remember
I can
when 2 guys n a gal toured the world in a Steam powered truck Britannia with a Moke as a back up vehicle

About Britannia
"Britannia" is a 1926 Foden C Type 6 Ton steam wagon, an early form of steam powered lorry or truck. Brtiannia is famous for her "Grand Global Tour" of 1968 to 1972, when which she became the first steam powered road vehicle to circumnavigate the globe. Still the only steam vehicle to have achieved this, in her time Britannia has travelled in places as diverse as Afganistan, Australia, India and the United States, and she has seen the likes of everybody from Presidents to pop stars travelling in her cab




about 1971 a call for help went out
from the Brittania mob
they were in Toorak Melbourne
n the steam truck had blown a steam tube (- no go)
so the

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15 years 5 months ago #5509 by atkipete
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Hope you got an OBE or something for rescuing the Poms, What is the little jigger towed behind the Moke?

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15 years 5 months ago #5510 by Swishy
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APete
GuddayM8



RE: Hope you got an OBE
dunno bout th@ but have had lotsa DCM'z
LOL

:P

RE:What is the little jigger towed behind the Moke
Me thinks 4 memory twas a power plant for electricty

:D

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15 years 5 months ago - 15 years 5 months ago #5511 by Andy Wright
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Giving away your age now, Swish. ;D

Nicely done. That would have to be one of the most adventurous things ever done with vintage steam.

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15 years 5 months ago #5512 by HeyCharger
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With nothing better to do....found this;
www.steamtraction.com/archive/2715/
Rod.

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1946 Ford Semi-Trailer Bus.

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15 years 5 months ago #5513 by Swishy
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RodMan
GuddayM8

Nice of U 2 find a bit of info on the Britannia trip
but there twaz a sheila also on the trip the lads shared around me thinks
LOL
cya


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