Londra'dan Singapur'a 10 bin mil sürerek 'The First Overland' olarak tarihe geçen Oxford ve Cambridge takımlarının yeni üyeleri, Londra'ya giden son yolculuklarında İstanbul'a uğradı.
1955 yılında Londra'dan Singapur'a 10 bin mil yol sürerek tarihin en ikonik yolculuklarından birini gerçekleştiren Oxford ve Cambridge ekipleri 64 yıl sonra ikinci yolculuklarını gerçekleştiriyor.
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Türkiye'nin ilk beş yıldızlı oteli Hilton İstanbul Bosphorus, açıldığı 1955 yılında misafir ettiği, Londra'dan Singapur'a 10.000 mil sürerek "The First Overland" olarak tarihe geçen Oxford ve Cambridge takımlarının yeni üyelerini eve dönüş yolunda coşkuyla karşıladı.
Türkiye’nin ilk beş yıldızlı oteli Hilton İstanbul Bosphorus, açıldığı 1955 yılında misafir ettiği, Londra’dan Singapur’a 10.000 mil sürerek “The First Overland” olarak tarihe geçen Oxford ve Cambridge takımlarının yeni üyelerini eve dönüş yolunda coşkuyla karşıladı. 64 yıl aradan sonra yeni bir ekiple aynı güzergahın tam tersi istikameti kat eden “The Last Overland”, 1955 yılında ilk seferini yapan Oxford aracının da dahil olduğu üç araçla Ağustos ayında Singapur’dan yola çıktı. 22 Kasım Cuma günü İstanbul’a varan The Last Overland ekibinin konaklama tercihi de 1955 yılındaki The First Overland ekibinin mola noktası olan Hilton İstanbul Bosphorus oldu.
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The Last Overland olarak adlandırılan dünyanın en uzun ve doğal yol gezisinde gezginler Giresun’da konakladı. Londra – Sigapur arasında yol macerasına çıkan gezginler Zirve Off-Road kulübünün konuğu oldu. Kümbet ve Mavi Göl’e hayran kalan ve binlerce takipçisi olan ekip çektikleri fotoğrafları sosyal medya hesapları ile web sayfasından yayınladılar.
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Sometimes it just happens. Your dog, on whom you’ve lavished so much love and affection, just had a bad day and snaps at you. The QE I, my ’66 Series IIA 88” SW, has exhibited that very behavior.
Last fall, clearly annoyed by the presence of its stablemate, my ’97 Discovery I SE7, it decided to render its transmission inoperable. With the help of friends, I installed a rebuilt transmission from Rovers North [see Fall 2018 issue -ed.] Then it sleeted, snowed and rained for several months all over my shade tree “garage.”
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The expedition group «Last Overland» («Last Overland») visited Ashgabat during the travel from Singapore to the United Kingdom.
Visitors of the Turkmen capital enjoyed its main sights and national entertainments.
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(…) Driving the original 1955 Series One Land Rover (‘Oxford’), one of the original team, Tim Slessor, will join Alex Bescoby and an experienced team in remaking history for a new generation of adventurers. This time, the team will forge the path through some of the densest jungles, highest mountains and most arid deserts on the planet, returning the car from Singapore to London. (…)
Read more the full story here: https://www.battleface.com/face/the-last-overland-expedition/
(…) “We’ve travelled almost 6,000km to get here to Pokhara. We’ve gone through all sorts of terrain, six different countries, all kinds of weather.”
After travelling through the Indian border via our Welfare Centres in Darjeeling, India and Damak, Nepal, the team set off to visit our headquarters, eager to meet some of our Gurkha veterans and find out how we’re helping them. (…)
Read the entire story here : https://www.gwt.org.uk/news/last-overland-reached-nepal/
The expedition was “flagged off” on 25 August from the Formula One circuit in Singapore with local enthusiasts escorting Slessor’s vehicle all the way to the Malaysian border. The intrepid travellers are currently in India preparing for the next phase of their journey towards the British capital. (…)
Read more on Wheels24 : http://bit.ly/33xnGRS
(…) “How is the car?
It’s good. Oxford is 64 years old. She has no power steering, no disk brake, no air conditioning, very very poor windscreen wipers which I have realised in the past few days. And she leaks through the roof and she’s drafty. But by god, she is fun to drive. I call her ‘she’ because Tim always called her ‘she’. He called this car the old lady.
I feel this car has a personality that you get to know gradually and that’s wonderful because this isn’t a normal car. You’re not protected from the environment. You feel the road, you feel the weather, it’s noisy and it’s hard work because you have to concentrate. It makes the journey more fun I’d say.”(…)
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SINGAPOUR - L’étudiant britannique Nathan George a grandi en 1955 en écoutant les récits de son grand-père sur la conduite de Londres à Singapour avec ses amis. C’était donc une décision facile que de prendre part à une expédition recréant la virée originale, bien qu’en sens inverse.
SINGAPORE – British student Nathan George grew up listening to his grandfather’s stories about driving from London to Singapore with his friends in 1955 so it was an easy decision to join an expedition that recreates the original jaunt, albeit in reverse.
An historic journey from Singapore to London was flagged off on Sunday (Aug 25) as eight people attempt to reach London in 100 days, reversing a drive that took place six decades ago. Lek Wan Zhen reports.
The Last Overland expedition from Singapore to London was flagged off on 25 August 2019 from the Singapore F1 Pit Building in Marina Bay.
At the time it was the longest of all overland journeys: halfway around the world, from the English Channel to Singapore.
In 1955, six British students set out on an epic expedition in two Series I Land Rovers. The destination was Singapore and the prize was a place in history. One team member shares his best moments.
Briton Nathan George grew up listening to his grandfather's stories about driving from London to Singapore with his friends in 1955, so it was an easy decision to join an expedition that recreates the original jaunt, albeit in reverse.
The Oxford & Cambridge Far Eastern Expedition – The First Overland – made history in 1955 by being the first to drive from London to Singapore. That young team inspired generations of adventurers through their extraordinary endeavour, showing many remote corners of the world on film for the first time.
After featuring in a BBC documentary tv show commissioned by David Attenborough, this Land Rover is on a return journey from Singapore to London some 60 years later.
In 1955, Land Rover sponsored the Oxford and Cambridge Far Eastern Expedition, where six young men from the Oxbridge universities drove almost 29,000 kilometers from London to Singapore. On Sunday in Singapore, one of those men – now 87 – will begin the reverse journey, called “The Last Overland,” in one of the vehicles used in the original caravan.
In 1955, a team of intrepid adventurers set off on The Oxford & Cambridge Far Eastern Expedition- an incredible 16,000 km journey driving from Singapore to London, funded by Land Rover. In August 2019, a team are set to recreate the infamous route and raise funds for Walking With The Wounded.
We’ve been overwhelmed by the number of people who’ve got in touch to ask how they can contribute towards the costs of the Last Overland Expedition. We’re very grateful for the offer, but we wanted to harness that awesome goodwill from around the world to support three incredible causes close to our hearts: Dementia UK, Walking with the Wounded and The Gurkha Welfare Trust.
