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General => General Discussion => Topic started by: plusnq on March 18, 2016, 06:11:05 AM

Title: How far has camper development come really?
Post by: plusnq on March 18, 2016, 06:11:05 AM

Food for thought

http://youtu.be/1VP1WnUw2T0 (http://youtu.be/1VP1WnUw2T0)

Title: Re: How far has camper development come really?
Post by: tk421 on March 18, 2016, 07:28:57 AM

They'd get there quicker if they released handbrake first

Title: Re: How far has camper development come really?
Post by: plusnq on March 18, 2016, 07:32:04 AM

Some things never change  ;D

Title: Re: How far has camper development come really?
Post by: Fizzie on March 18, 2016, 07:40:02 AM

I love Mum & Dad wearing crash-hats but the little girl is fine without one - what, she's inn the side-car so can't get hurt?

Title: Re: How far has camper development come really?
Post by: plusnq on March 18, 2016, 08:05:10 AM

Times have changed. :D

Title: Re: How far has camper development come really?
Post by: edz on March 18, 2016, 08:47:00 AM

Pretty much all been done before, still drag way too much gear as in the first pic

Title: Re: How far has camper development come really?
Post by: tk421 on March 18, 2016, 09:36:24 AM

Well we’re probably better at carrying stuff more simply. My great grandfather was required to a ‘Ulendo’ or Bush Safari in Barotseland, visiting local chiefs in the 1920's. As DC he had to do 7 days per month (14 days when he was Assistant DC – Some might say it was a punishment for promotion perhaps?).  Generally he’d do Mon-Sunday 1 week out of every 4. General Orders allowed him 22 carriers + 2 when in waterless areas. 6 of those were required just to carry the heavy canvas tents that were standard issue - double fly, verandah, bathroom apse, plus poles and pegs. The rest carried food, and luggage, including shotgun and ammunition, a Radio or gramophone for evenings in camp.

When my great grandmother was on Ulendo and pregnant she was carried in a Machila

In Tseste fly areas my toddler grandmother would be carried inside a modified meat safe to prevent being bitten.

Pics from the 1920's - showing setting up camp, my great grandmother being carried in a Machila and my grandmother

Title: Re: How far has camper development come really?
Post by: Anya45 on March 18, 2016, 10:46:31 AM

Awesome look back in time...

Thankyou