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19/07/2024

19/07/2024

19/07/2024

History record of Donald Campbells land speed record on Lake Eyre

17/07/2024

Bean 1927 England to Australia Recreation

18th April 2024. Lang and Bev Kidby leave Brooklands on the start of their epic challenge to drive to Australia in their 1924 Bean motor car. To have an idea...

17/07/2024

Bean 1927 England to Australia Recreation

15/07/2024

Bean 1927 England to Australia Recreation

This is Francis Birtle's hand drawn map of his England to Australia drive with "whimsical comments". He obviously purloined the map from the shipping company which has its sea routes printed upon it.

It appears he drew this map on the ship between Mergui and Penang (after being caught by the Burma monsoon) with his proposed route after Darwin. The comments cease after his note "13,000 miles to date May 19 1928" and an arrow pointing to Southern Burma.

As we see in the later posts above he diverted to Brisbane instead of going to Bourke via the inland route he has drawn on the map.

Birtle's travels are in the rougher hand drawn lines.

11/07/2024

Bean 1927 England to Australia Recreation

Andy Lambert of Classic Car Tracker in UK sent a composite of the trip so far from the daily tracking points. The tracker will be on again from Darwin and if you look back in these posts you will see how to track the Bean live minute by minute across Australia.

Of course it is turned off now as it sits in a container on the dock in Singapore awaiting the Darwin ship.

03/07/2024

Bean 1927 England to Australia Recreation

1004 likes, 6 comments. “Mr.Ling tells us about his 1930 Bean 14.”

03/07/2024

Bean 1927 England to Australia Recreation

Aussie couple on 102-year-old car traverses 14 countries, reaches Kolkata after 3 months of journeyOn a tribute on this occasion 25 other classic and vintage...

30/06/2024

We are gearing up for the annual William Creek Bronco Branding. Don't miss an action-packed weekend of fun for the whole family!
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28/06/2024

Bean 1927 England to Australia Recreation

Lang and Bev Kidby drove from London to the City of Joy before shipping the car to Australia for the last leg of an adventurous journey

24/06/2024

Bean 1927 England to Australia Recreation

20/06/2024

Bean 1927 England to Australia Recreation

Last report from India.

We are on an 0200 flight to Brisbane to wait until returning to Darwin to meet the Bean 12 July.

This is the Classic Car Tracker route for the Europe/Asia leg.

For those who do not have the tracker app(free) you can follow our route from London to Melbourne minute by minute, go back in history for any day etc. Just click on Demonstration then select the Bean from the car list. Basic info only on a phone but full access on a computer.

A couple of days we accidently knocked the wires off the tracker so it just joined the points with a straight line.

https://www.classiccartrack.com/

19/06/2024

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15/06/2024

Bean 1927 England to Australia Recreation

10/06/2024

Bean 1927 England to Australia Recreation
Final leg from London to Calcutta completed.

09/06/2024

Bean 1927 England to Australia Recreation
Round up of the recreation on
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