Bandit was allowed at the National Road Transport Museum. So many displays!
We arrived later in the day and our need for lunch interrupted a full visit - otherwise we would have stayed a lot longer.
I was so impressed by the Wall of Fame!
" ... over 1800 stories of men and women who have been recognised for their contribution to the transport industry."
All those stories, with one person honoured in each frame. I expect it would take months to read them all!
Faye Naylor, whose house we'd toured in Coober Pedy, had been inducted to the Wall of Fame in 2011. You can read her story and those of many others, here.
My favourite exhibit was the green "Mulga Express" built by Kurt Johannsen. What a beast! He designed a "wood-gas producer" to run it, due to war-time petrol rations. (It needed 1kg of wood to travel 1km).
It seems there is a book of Kurt's story: "A Son of the Red Centre" and I've now put that on my reading list.
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