dear jan
i forgot to mention that the world peace flame was carried from australia to
england last year in one of our lamps with the royal australian air force
regards david mather
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jan Wegner" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, September 21, 2000 12:45 AM
Subject: Re: miners lamps
> That reminds me - the Olympic flame was also carried from Greece to
> Australia in two miners' lamps (on 2 separate planes) for the 1956
> Melbourne Games. Anyone have any idea what make these lamps might have
> been? The info. will be useful for a museum display I'm researching.
> Jan Wegner
> Cairns, Australia
>
> [log in to unmask] wrote:
> just to update our lamps carried the olympic flame during the sydney
> 2000 torch relay some 27,000 km
> they wanted a safe way of transporting the flame from olympia and a back
> up each night in case the torch went out.
>
>
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
|