Pics of Tom's Badger.
Submitted: Friday, Nov 14, 2008 at 20:02
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Miss(an)Jo - Toad Keeper (Bris
So Big and Little Borgy drove me to the motor museum today to see the Badger.. Coooolll! If that truck could talk I could sit and listen for hours! So Below are some pics.
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(Look at the camera next time Jo)
Reply By: Sir Kev & Darkie - Friday, Nov 14, 2008 at 20:07
Friday, Nov 14, 2008 at 20:07
Looks like it was worth the effort to go then.
Cheers Kev
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Reply By: Member - Footloose - Friday, Nov 14, 2008 at 20:15
Friday, Nov 14, 2008 at 20:15
Hey Joe, nice truck :)))
Good to hear from you on the phone. Have fun down there (I can see from the grin that it's a ruuly hard job but someone's gotta do it kiddo.)
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Reply By: Trevor R (QLD) - Friday, Nov 14, 2008 at 20:39
Friday, Nov 14, 2008 at 20:39
Nice truck, don't think much of the mechanic though.......please don't tell me that's you? please......
Enjoy your visit and don't forget to ask them how much it will cost us to keep you down there.....I'll go and passs the hat around to see if we can raise the funds up here hehehehe.
Regards, Trevor.
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Follow Up By: Miss(an)Jo - Toad Keeper (Bris - Friday, Nov 14, 2008 at 21:11
Friday, Nov 14, 2008 at 21:11
Nice Trev.. Bloody nice!
I am down here as a representative of you King Toad and you are trying to sell me off to em!
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Follow Up By: Sir Kev & Darkie - Friday, Nov 14, 2008 at 21:15
Friday, Nov 14, 2008 at 21:15
So what is the starting bid Trev??
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Follow Up By: Member - Mark G (NSW) - Friday, Nov 14, 2008 at 21:19
Friday, Nov 14, 2008 at 21:19
........1 darkie
seat !!
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Follow Up By: Ross H (QLD) - Monday, Nov 17, 2008 at 17:01
Monday, Nov 17, 2008 at 17:01
Hi Trev
Just spoke to Perry and he has started the bidding at $50 said he is always happy to support a good cause (anything for charity)
LOL.
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Follow Up By: Pezza (Bris) - Tuesday, Nov 18, 2008 at 01:57
Tuesday, Nov 18, 2008 at 01:57
Onya
Ross !! LOL
Only reason I started at 50 was cause I knew you'd double it in a heartbeat. :-))
Haven't you got a concrete kerb to find somewhere in a Rav?
Pezza
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Follow Up By: Ross H (QLD) - Tuesday, Nov 18, 2008 at 19:15
Tuesday, Nov 18, 2008 at 19:15
Only one problem with that Perry, Trevor says I don't have a heart.
Yes tyre is all fixed $285 owch....A lot of money to go and visit a couple of ferals on a beach....hahahaha...:)
Ross
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Reply By: Neil & Lynne - Friday, Nov 14, 2008 at 20:45
Friday, Nov 14, 2008 at 20:45
I bet it never looked that good when Tom had it!
Heh heh
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Follow Up By: Miss(an)Jo - Toad Keeper (Bris - Friday, Nov 14, 2008 at 21:12
Friday, Nov 14, 2008 at 21:12
hehe! I should have found a photo of what was left of it when they removed it off
Pandie Pandie station.
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Follow Up By: Member - Footloose - Friday, Nov 14, 2008 at 21:45
Friday, Nov 14, 2008 at 21:45
I thought there was a picture of that in the book ?
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Follow Up By: Miss(an)Jo - Toad Keeper (Bris - Friday, Nov 14, 2008 at 22:03
Friday, Nov 14, 2008 at 22:03
yeh I meant I should have found one off the web and posted it before I posted these pics of The Badger restored.
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Reply By: On Patrol & TONI - Friday, Nov 14, 2008 at 21:31
Friday, Nov 14, 2008 at 21:31
SOOOO
DID YOU MEET THE MAN?????
well did ya????
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Follow Up By: On Patrol & TONI - Friday, Nov 14, 2008 at 21:32
Friday, Nov 14, 2008 at 21:32
Did ya get to see his bust??????
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Follow Up By: Miss(an)Jo - Toad Keeper (Bris - Friday, Nov 14, 2008 at 22:02
Friday, Nov 14, 2008 at 22:02
haha! No didn't get to meet him today.. Today was just the museum, sunday is when we go to his birth home in
Waterloo for the Bust unveiling, I will get to meet him then!
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Follow Up By: On Patrol & TONI - Friday, Nov 14, 2008 at 22:34
Friday, Nov 14, 2008 at 22:34
Give him a kiss from us all.
Better from you than Dave though.LOL
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Reply By: ExplorOz - David & Michelle - Friday, Nov 14, 2008 at 22:51
Friday, Nov 14, 2008 at 22:51
We were in
Birdsville in 1999 when he did his last mail run.
I did a little piece in the original "Beach & Beyond" travel journal that was copied to ExplorOz when we launched it and is still available in its new guise in my blog -
September 1999 blog Birdsville
Unfortunately it doesn't contain one of the great photos I took - so give me a moment to dig it up, it is off Tom in this reconditioned Badger. If anyone is interested, let me know and I'll get out the old photo album, scan the
pic, and upload it here.
MM
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Follow Up By: Miss(an)Jo - Toad Keeper (Bris - Friday, Nov 14, 2008 at 23:02
Friday, Nov 14, 2008 at 23:02
Bring it on Michelle!
I can't wait for Sunday.. Seriously I have to take tissues. The man has just truly touched my heart and I can't really explain it but he has and I am so glad I made the decision to take a week off work and come down to SA for the Bust, I just had to do it. I just know that if I knocked back the invitation to attend the Bust and not meet Tom, I would truly regret it.
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Follow Up By: Geoff (Newcastle, NSW) - Friday, Nov 14, 2008 at 23:47
Friday, Nov 14, 2008 at 23:47
Jo,
"I just know that if I knocked back the invitation to attend the Bust and not meet Tom, I would truly regret it."
This is just so great, yep, no logic at all but something that just had to be done.
You'll have that memory to share with generations to come, long after Tom has departed this world.
Enjoy,
Geoff
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Follow Up By: ExplorOz - David & Michelle - Saturday, Nov 15, 2008 at 00:28
Saturday, Nov 15, 2008 at 00:28
Not sure if you've noticed - I have put up the photos in a reply.
MM
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Follow Up By: Miss(an)Jo - Toad Keeper (Bris - Saturday, Nov 15, 2008 at 11:38
Saturday, Nov 15, 2008 at 11:38
Hey Geoff...
Yep, can't explain it. It really was just the 'I have to do this'. When I get that I gotta follow it through. I got
home from work, walk in the front door and said to Mark, "we are going to
Adelaide!" What? Why?. Because we just have to, if you can't come that's fine but I HAVE to go, full stop, end of story.
As it turned out he couldn't come, and he got admitted back to hospital late on the tues arvo, the day before I was to fly out but he knew this was something I had to do so still insisted I go. And obviously I did, and he had lot's of nurses to look after him so he'd be fine!!!
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Reply By: ExplorOz - David & Michelle - Saturday, Nov 15, 2008 at 00:20
Saturday, Nov 15, 2008 at 00:20
Found a few ...
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Follow Up By: Miss(an)Jo - Toad Keeper (Bris - Saturday, Nov 15, 2008 at 01:41
Saturday, Nov 15, 2008 at 01:41
Great pics Michelle!!
Sorry can't help myself here though.. It is Badger not Dodger! (read your photo descriptions)
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Follow Up By: ExplorOz - David & Michelle - Saturday, Nov 15, 2008 at 22:32
Saturday, Nov 15, 2008 at 22:32
Oopps! see what happens when you stay up late at night on the
Forum!!
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Reply By: ExplorOz - David & Michelle - Saturday, Nov 15, 2008 at 00:25
Saturday, Nov 15, 2008 at 00:25
oh and the original ...
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Follow Up By: Miss(an)Jo - Toad Keeper (Bris - Saturday, Nov 15, 2008 at 01:35
Saturday, Nov 15, 2008 at 01:35
That is the Chev Blitz truck. When the war was over with Tom went and bought a couple of the trucks on behalf of Harry Ding. In the end the Blitz was kept on the other side of
Cooper Creek so he had a truck to carry everything up to
Birdsville when the floods were happening and he had to ferry everything across the Cooper.
I know the Red Blitz has also been restored but I cannot remember where it is kept. Possibly at
Marree.
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Follow Up By: Miss(an)Jo - Toad Keeper (Bris - Saturday, Nov 15, 2008 at 02:04
Saturday, Nov 15, 2008 at 02:04
sorry, Ford.
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Follow Up By: Blaze - Saturday, Nov 15, 2008 at 02:48
Saturday, Nov 15, 2008 at 02:48
Spot on Jo, the old one is the all wheel drive Blitz, the one he used for the re-enactment was the Leyland Badger of which you have pictures from the
Birdwood Museum.
Tom Kruze and Len Beadell would have to be the last of Australias true great adventurers, and of course Williem.... :-)
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Follow Up By: Miss(an)Jo - Toad Keeper (Bris - Saturday, Nov 15, 2008 at 11:19
Saturday, Nov 15, 2008 at 11:19
Willem would still be one of the true greats...
Ii he'd of kept his Grand Poo Bah title!!!!
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Reply By: peterll - Saturday, Nov 15, 2008 at 16:10
Saturday, Nov 15, 2008 at 16:10
Some great pictures of the old Badger and yes indeed old Tom did some mighty work.
Always kind of niggled me a little though while watching the two videos.
Tom was rightly awarded an MBE. And yet who is, or are, the fellows accompanying him in the story Back of Beyond ?
How come the other drivers who did the same thing are rarely, if ever, acknowledged ?
Dave and Monty Scobie, Ken and Allan Crombie, Fred Teague, Tommy Robinson and Max Bowden are just some that I know of who did the
Birdsville mail run.
Fred Teague held the record for the fastest trip for awhile. 18 hours to get from Maree to
Birdsville and only 12 hours to return.
The trucks outside of the
Mungerannie Hotel are part of those legendary days of the track, an AEC, Blitz and one other
shell.
Like many legends, history tends be overlooked at times.
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Follow Up By: Miss(an)Jo - Toad Keeper (Bris - Saturday, Nov 15, 2008 at 20:48
Saturday, Nov 15, 2008 at 20:48
Yeh it is funny you should say that Peter, cause as much as Tom did it, I have said on numerous occasions when talking to others about it, 'what about the other guys that have all done the run as
well?' They may not have done it for as long as Tom, but they did it and deserve just as much recognition also.
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Reply By: ExplorOz - David & Michelle - Saturday, Nov 15, 2008 at 22:37
Saturday, Nov 15, 2008 at 22:37
I don't actually know (or recall) why the name on the side of the truck is E.G. Kruse - was it a proper name or family of Tom's? Can anyone enlighten me (and others) on this point?
MM
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Follow Up By: Miss(an)Jo - Toad Keeper (Bris - Saturday, Nov 15, 2008 at 22:45
Saturday, Nov 15, 2008 at 22:45
Esmond Gerald Kruse is his full name.
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Reply By: aussiedingo - Sunday, Nov 16, 2008 at 19:31
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Image Could Not Be FoundG'day Jo, great stories of the man, here are a coupla pics I took when I spoke with him in
Birdsville recently when he autographed my dvd, I mentioned to you earlier that I had some (sorry about the quality-they were taken on my mobile) very enjoyable for us all to have this association with Tom. see ya, dingo
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Follow Up By: Miss(an)Jo - Toad Keeper (Bris - Sunday, Nov 16, 2008 at 21:22
Sunday, Nov 16, 2008 at 21:22
G Day AD.
I have got a stack of photos from today, too many to put up here so I will figure out how I can put them somewhere with a link for you all and will turn it into a thread.
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