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| Wednesday, Thursday
and Friday were spent on site, I tried to drive as much as possible so
anyone needing a drive down to the car park or stalls to pick up large
parts was catered for. Some trips down to the local supermarket at Tonbridge
Wells to get (beer) supplies were a joy as well. All in all the truck consumed
some 35 litres of petrol doing these short trips.
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Saturday
- the Canadian Parade was on!
Entering the arena at Beltring for the first time on Saturday for the Canadian Parade. She was honoured that she got to carry both the MLU head honcho and the "Empress of the Zephyrian Highlands". Picture courtesy of Dirk Leegwater |
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Line-up in the arena.
My F15A is on the extreme left.
Picture courtesy of Dirk Leegwater |
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Riding with me were
Geoff Winnington-Ball (in the hatch). In the rear from left to right are:
Geoff's wife Julia, Dennis Buijs, Raimundo Torelli, Sean Spencer
and Gordon McMillan. Truly an international gathering with people from
Canada, Holland, Italy and Scotland.
Picture courtesy of Chris Shillito |
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Sunday - time to say good bye to my friends Rory Ballard & Geoff Winnington-Ball and hit the road.... |
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The next leg of the
trip was made on Sunday, from Beltring to David Herbert's place at Bedingfield.
A distance of 110 miles with challenges such as the Dartmoor Tunnel.
When I got there David surprised me with a spare wheel, as he had seen the one on my truck isn't a particularly nice one. He found the wheel at a local farmer, where it had stood unused against a barn for the past thirty years. David had to disentangle it from the bramble bushes - hard work on a sunday morning! |
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| Third leg of the trip
was from Bedingfield to home, Delft. Total distance covered was 75 miles.
The 100 miles from Harwich - Hoek van Holland were covered by Stena Line's
High speed catamaran. The F15A must have set a speed record as the ferry
travels at 40 knots (=74 mph)!
When I got home I felt somewhat like a hero, but all my wife Jorien could mutter was "What an ugly thing! What on earth are you going to do with that?". She's quite right, of course, CMPs are ugly... |
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| Created
26 June 2001
Updated 12 May 2004 Copyright © 2000-2004 H.L. Spoelstra - All Rights Reserved |
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