Thread: Trivia and other useless but interesting items

Originally Posted by 4bee

Seems I often make people aware of these disasters.



On another forum (UK) in another life, l posted about a Detachment of Royal Navy Cadets marching down a foggy road in Kent, post WW2 when out of the fog came a bus & ran over them, many died & the bus driver was reported as saying "I wondered what all that bumpety bump was" or words to that effect. It was the bus rolling over the bodies.

They did have a red lamp at the rear of the column & from memory it was on a curve in the road.


A plaque was placed on the wall adjacent to the accident & I was told by one of the Forum Members that he drove that road each day & wondered what the plaque was for.

The young blokes were all buried in the same cemetery in one large plot except one who was a Jewish lad.

Your a bundle of joy, eh Des?

Originally Posted by V8Ian

Your a bundle of joy, eh Des?

No mate, not really, I seem to have a knack & a bloody good memory for some things. Other things, not so good. Tragic? Yes. Remember, when the Navy event happened I was still a young guy who had an interest in post war Britain & the Royal Navy. News was hard to get except by B&W newspapers & probably a week old. But in this case I had heard it on Short Wave Wireless from the Beeb the night before.

Originally Posted by 4bee

Jonsey, your mention of Winton reminded me of the Ansett-ANA Vickers Viscount Air crash there aprox. 55 years ago

And your comment reminded me of a crash of a TAA DC-4 cargo aircraft onto Bulwer Island in 1961. I cut the articles out of the Courier-Mail for my aircraft scrapbook.

ASN Aircraft accident Douglas DC-4-1009 VH-TAA Bulwer Island, QLD

Originally Posted by 4bee

Jonsey, your mention of Winton reminded me of the Ansett-ANA Vickers Viscount Air crash there aprox. 55 years ago



.One of Australia's worst air crashes remembered at Winton | Queensland Country Life | Queensland

From memory, the accident resulted ultimately from incorrect assembly of the drive to auxilliaries on one engine. An unvented plug was fitted instead of a vented one, resulting in a seal being blown, oil loss, overheating and ultimately a fire which could not be controlled, leading to a main spar failure. There is a suggestion that the crew may have been attempting a landing on a claypan, but this seems unlikely to me - they had already planned a landing at Winton as the fire could not be controlled, but they could not have known that spar failure was imminent.

Great, I remind people of disarsters.

The main thing I remember about Winton is it's COLD at 5:00am in July.

Jonesfam

Originally Posted by jonesfam

Great, I remind people of disarsters.

The main thing I remember about Winton is it's COLD at 5:00am in July.

Jonesfam

So's Richmond, water goes solid!

So is just about anywhere inland!

Great, I remind people of disarsters.

Life ain't all about Beer & Skittles Jonesy, some sacrifices need to be made.