Overland from London to Singapore Video

[Bostonian1976]

This is quite a find.....documentary of the famous Series 1 trip....

http://www.landroveraddict.com/videos/overland3.wmv

[pvkd]

Thank You !!

This is absolutely brilliant. Thank you!


Paul

[4flattires]

Traveling in those days...

...must have been very interesting blazing trails.

Thanks for sharing,

Jeff

[I Leak Oil]

That's a great story! It's probably a tragic end for the vehicles but does anyone know what ever happened to them?
Jason T.

[S11A]

The book was great:

http://www.amazon.com/First-Overland-Tim-Slessor/dp/1904955142/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1209476558&sr=1-1

You can also get the book from Tim Slessor's web site:

http://www.teeafit.co.uk/firstoverland/

The video from that site does have the original footage, but has modern voice overs that don't really narrate the journey as the video rolls. It is quite interesting but is not exactly a documentary of the journey itself. It is almost more like modern interviews with old footage rolling in the background.

And then there's this web site:

http://www.firstoverland.com/

Not sure but it looks like the web site is run by different people than Tim.

[EASTTNROVER]

First Overland

This is quite a find.....documentary of the famous Series 1 trip....

http://www.landroveraddict.com/videos/overland3.wmv

Good find. Had a disco till I took a trip and listened to the audio book off itunes, it made the 16 hour trip alot faster... then I read Tony Park's story in LRO and it sealed the deal, had to have a series and it's been fun ever since.

[daveb]

thanks bosto, interesting they are pouring water out of the whisky cans, maybe that was just a bit of college humor?

This is quite a find.....documentary of the famous Series 1 trip....

http://www.landroveraddict.com/videos/overland3.wmv

[Bostonian1976]

thanks bosto, interesting they are pouring water out of the whisky cans, maybe that was just a bit of college humor?

yeah that caught my eye too...that would have been a lot of whiskey..

[Tim Smith]

thanks bosto, interesting they are pouring water out of the whisky cans, maybe that was just a bit of college humor?

In the book (or was it the Teeafit movie ) there is mention about how they were stopped on some border because booze was not allowed.

I think they started drinking straight from the cans to the bewilderment of the guard officials. They soon figured it out and let the boys pass.