Armoured Corps Museum Visit - Corowa Week 13th March 2014

[Dianaa]

The Tank Museum visit has been confirmed with with the museum. They are offering us the group admission price of $5 per person.

There are now people arriving direct from Melbourne and regional Victoria. They are planning to arrive at the Pukapunyal Museum around 10:30 am.

The people from Corowa, will likely not arrive before 10:30 am and more likely around 11:00 am.

BBQ facilities are available and we will likely have lunch around 1:30 pm - 2:00 pm. There willl be an optional visit to Ron Fry's place after lunch and both gorups heading off to Corowa around 3:30 pm. The route will be direct along the Hume Freeway north.

I am interested to know about numbers attending and whether people will be taking older vehicles in convoy (in case we need to arrange brake down contingencies). There is also an option of using more modern military vehicles or even modern civilian vehicles carrying groups of passengers and making it more comfortable day for what will be a long trip. (5 to 6 hours of driving)

Remember this is an active military base. Participants will need to carry photo ID and wearing of current Australian military uniforms is to be avoided.

Diana

[Jan Thompson]

All sounds good. I could put a list up on the board and encourage people to put their name down if they are planning to attend along with the vehicle they are driving if you like. The only problem is that people don't seem to commit these days.

[Dianaa]

I'm pretty sure we'll find out the the attendance numbers sometime after 7:30 am on the 13th. Most likely when a late starter catches up with us en-route.

I'm thinking of having a Jeep/Land Rover sized trailer and a truck (Mk3 Inter type) A frame on the trip.

If there's only a few participants, I'll have my civvy D4 in Corowa and there will be at least one other Disco so we could easily take 8 passengers and do the trip in 2 hours at 110kph. Otherwise I'll use the SIII FFR and do the trip at 70-80kph.

A message on the notice board will be good, but had planned to do that any way.