NitroX
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21/02/12 09:36 PM
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Life is a Safari
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Life is a Safari. A journey of class and enjoyment. Live the life of safari, every day, anywhere you are.
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NitroX
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21/02/12 09:38 PM
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The potjie. The cast iron three legged cooking pot of Southern Africa.
For cooking over the coals and also coals on top. Perfect for the nomadic 'safari' life.
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NitroX
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21/02/12 10:12 PM
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Re: Life is a Safari
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Coals on top. Just like a camp oven.
Meat usually goes at the bottom.
Yum.
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21/02/12 10:24 PM
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More Yum.
Pleasant fireside cooking.
In a large potjie and the right circumstances, one could even take a bath ...
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NitroX
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22/02/12 03:59 AM
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The good old canvas or hessain water bags. Cooled water by evaporation.
Used these in the 70's and also on my first ever hunt in the arid Northern Flinders Ranges.
Good kit.
Even had the right name.
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Do you know if anyone still makes those water bags ? Would love to have one !
Robert
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25/02/12 08:24 PM
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Quote:
Do you know if anyone still makes those water bags ? Would love to have one !
Robert
Yes Robert, they are still made. I found a few for sale on the net at various Aussie retailers and camping supplies shops. I would think you could source some in the USA as well. Search using "hessian water bag" "for sale". Maybe subsitute "canvas" for hessian.
The quality didn't look to the same standard as the old ones, from the photos at least.
I also wanted to find a big round hanging water bag with a hose and lid like we used to have. A stupid employee decided to stab it so it didn't last for more than a few weeks back decades ago.
Was good for storing maybe 15 to 20 litres and having relatively cool water to drink. Easy access too.
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NitroX
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25/02/12 08:27 PM
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Some of the 'necessities' of the luxury classic safari.
The vintage safari tent.
The silverware box of cutlery. No plastic or tinny forks here.
The folding camp chair and stool for booting ones knee high leather boots on.
Brass lantern polished bright.
Hessian foot mat.
Hammock for those energetic afternoons.
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NitroX
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17/03/12 06:23 PM
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Back in the days of First Class Steamer Ship travel, one could take many luxuries. Wny not one's library too, for the three or four month safari plus a month or more of ship travel!
Louis Vuitton steamer trunk library from 1923.
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18/03/12 02:48 AM
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TR had one of those on his famous Safari. He called it the "Pigskin Library". Those were the days, eh? But then again, very few could go on Safari back then.
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18/03/12 03:39 AM
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In the US they were called Lister (Lyster) bags. Find em on ebay.
Apropos of nothing: Can you picture what it would be like to start planning a classic safari, replete with a cruise to Dar es Salam? Six months gone, living in a tent, shower consists of a bucket with a nozzle, etc.
My first safari in 1995 was to a tent camp in Botswana up on the Okavango. Chef cooked on an open fire and steel plate. Shower was as above. Shower water smelled faintly of smoke from the cooking fire. We did have safari trucks, but I got my sitatunga out of a mokorro (dugout). I'll never forget it.
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NitroX
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18/03/12 02:09 PM
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Re: Life is a Safari
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Quote:
In the US they were called Lister (Lyster) bags. Find em on ebay.
Apropos of nothing: Can you picture what it would be like to start planning a classic safari, replete with a cruise to Dar es Salam? Six months gone, living in a tent, it.
I am sure some gentlemen would have ordered one of those streamer trunk libraries with specially ordered and bound books to fill it too. Just for the safari.
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NitroX
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22/03/12 03:12 PM
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The Aussie Camp Oven
Like a potje without the legs and wider and flatter. Coals can be put on the top of the lid as it as a lip to aid all round "oven" style cooking.
Great meals can be cooked by preparing the vegetables and say a goat leg, with water or other liquid. Put them in the camp oven, dig a hole, lay some coals from the fire at the bottom of the hole. Put the camp oven in. Some more coals on the lid. Bury the camp oven with the soil. Go hunting for the afternoon or day. Come home and dig out the camp oven and you have a delicious well cooked roast leg of goat and roasted vegetables.
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BTW there's a campfire variant that uses a plough disc (harrow?) with a folding tripod arrangement as a sorta wok. Works for me and much lighter. Otherwise a traditional underground oven utilising the (gutted) animal's body (skin on) and adding heated stones within the abdomen.
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22/03/12 10:28 PM
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I used one of those Hessian water bags. It was hard to get use to the mouth full of Hessian when utilising the last bit of water.
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also available par italiano once
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NitroX
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10/12/13 12:26 AM
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10/12/13 02:54 AM
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That is a really neat photo in so many ways...
Ripp
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Great photo
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NitroX
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11/12/13 12:10 PM
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Had to drop back in here for my morning shave ...
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11/12/13 05:59 PM
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Looks like she is working on the Tracker
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NitroX
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09/10/14 04:53 AM
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I need to fix the links on the previous pics, in the meantime, an old Uganda poster.
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NitroX
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09/10/14 05:04 AM
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Have posted this one before I think, but just because ... posting again. 
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NitroX
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09/10/14 05:06 AM
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Safari and campaign furniture bush elegance.
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NitroX
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09/10/14 05:07 AM
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The beauty of the plains prior to the monsoons, with sunbursts through the clouds.
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Ripp
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09/10/14 05:08 AM
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Quote:
Have posted this one before I think, but just because ... posting again.
Please feel free to post this one every day... 
Ripp
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09/10/14 05:10 AM
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More coming mate. Perhaps earlier just because you asked.
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NitroX
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09/10/14 05:11 AM
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Not too close baby!
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NitroX
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09/10/14 06:49 PM
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One can feel and taste the heat and dust of Africa, the wake of the wildebeest migration.
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NitroX
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09/10/14 06:54 PM
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Girls, don't fall in and get wet. There might be crocodiles down there!
(Another one for Art. )
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Or even worse, a trouser snake.
Waidmannsheil.
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NitroX
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09/10/14 10:27 PM
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For some reason mud wrestling came to mind seeing that photo ...
Something that doesn't happen at festivals anymore!!!
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Ripp
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09/10/14 11:50 PM
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Quote:
One can feel and taste the heat and dust of Africa, the wake of the wildebeest migration.
Agree--looking at that you can smell the dust and scent of the animals..really cool
thx
Ripp
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09/10/14 11:51 PM
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Quote:
Girls, don't fall in and get wet. There might be crocodiles down there!
(Another one for Art. )
Well, thank you John...great way to start my day...
Appreciate the efforts..
Ripp (Art)
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NitroX
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12/10/14 03:19 AM
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Style in Africa.
Keira Knightley
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NitroX
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12/10/14 03:26 AM
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Don't run with the herd ... but a lion might get you.
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NitroX
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12/10/14 03:59 AM
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Where are those cheetahs that are supposed to be here?
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NitroX
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13/10/14 11:45 PM
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13/10/14 11:46 PM
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Luxury accommodations.
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NitroX
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13/10/14 11:47 PM
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When i was a kid my father use to have one these water bags on the front of his Land Rover on a frame but he took if off eventually ,because he said if he drove into town people would steal them
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NitroX
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14/10/14 08:19 PM
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17/10/14 12:57 AM
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Quote:
When i was a kid my father use to have one these water bags on the front of his Land Rover on a frame but he took if off eventually ,because he said if he drove into town people would steal them
We used to use them on the farm too. We had a sheep property an hour's drive away, across the range in the Murray Flats area. The water bags used to be a nice way to have a cool drink in hot dusty places.
They can still be purchased if one looks hard enough. Hopefully still of original quality.
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NitroX
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17/10/14 12:59 AM
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17/10/14 01:03 AM
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Ripp
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17/10/14 01:04 AM
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Great Pics John,
I may have to borrow a few of those..
thx
Ripp
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NitroX
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17/10/14 01:05 AM
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Horses on safari, something many like to do nowadays, game viewing on horse. Would need 'salted' horses in Tsetse Fly country. But is it unusual? No. Many hunts in old Kenya were by horse, especially for lion.
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NitroX
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17/10/14 01:06 AM
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When I hunted with Pierre van Wyk in the Gwayi Valley in Zimbabwe, he discussed desiring a Marlin "Game Gun" (or whatever it is called) in .45/70, the shortened version of the standard lever action, for carrying in a scabbard when doing horse safaris.
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17/10/14 06:12 AM
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Great pics, it really gets me into the right mood!!
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NitroX
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17/10/14 10:13 PM
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Thanks Staffan.
An experience when travelling in Africa is to actually visit a market. Too many just go hunting, getting picked up and dropped off at the airport with no real knowledge of the real Africa.
It can be very enjoyable and a different experience to visit an African market or any market in the Third World. Visiting the fresh meat section can make one feel like becoming a vegetarian. BUZZ BUZZ, get it? 
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NitroX
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17/10/14 10:14 PM
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Classic style in Africa.
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NitroX
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17/10/14 10:15 PM
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Golden sunsets and golden days ...
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NitroX
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28/10/14 12:03 AM
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28/10/14 12:21 AM
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Treasures from my travels - a Chess Table from Sri Lanka.
With the table top reversed.
Different, but fits very well with the style of the Indian / Rajasthan chess pieces. And as they are so large they needed a huge board to fit onto. Makes a nice unusual table when reversed as well. It survived quite well sitting in a quarantine freezer for six weeks too. I need to have a glass top made to fit within the wooden border, perhaps with a couple of handles to make it easy to swap around. The glass should fit both sides of the table fine whichever is being used at the time.
My chess partner Blitzen, he lets me win.
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28/10/14 11:45 PM
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Treasures from my travels - Garden furniture from Sri Lanka.
Garden furniture commissioned in Sri Lanka. Asian elephants and stylised flora from Sri Lanka.
The table is heavily carved and needs a glass pane or table top to be added.
Being enjoyed.
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18/11/17 06:54 PM
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Enjoying these photos again.
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93x64mm
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19/11/17 10:59 AM
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Lovely collection mate!
Quite a remarkable set(s), would have cost a few quid to get home - but very well worth it!
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19/11/17 11:03 AM
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Amazing!
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30/06/22 03:16 AM
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What every travelling gentleman adventurer needs!
Or for the home safari mancave.
Wine, liquor, chess and games,crystal and books. It must have a humidor too.
And a Unimog truck camper to transport it.
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Now that is too cool !!!!!!!
Robert
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30/06/22 02:12 PM
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Indeed it is!!!!!!!
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30/06/22 04:13 PM
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Amazing and beautifully made piece of kit, Nitrox!
A similar one for transporting your battery of safari rifles would make the perfect matching and a nice pair.
Louis
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30/06/22 11:48 PM
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I used to travel regularly every week. Only 80 kms by car. Worked at a winery. Lived at my city house. My parents farm an0nd vineyard only 15 one away from work. Usually lived there during the week and the city on weekends. Wrong way around. One should be in the country on weekends.
Doing all that travel lugging luggage around was a pain in the arse. My mania for carrying excessive stuff around probably came from back then.
But I desired an old style travelling trunk from those days. Polished shoes, suits, dress shirts, jackets, dinner suit, casual clothes, cufflinks, tie bars, silk ties, all or some could be carried in a steamer travelling trunk. In reality not all of that but some.
I even wondered if I could make one? Modern plastic trunks don't work.
I DO have a lovely navy blue steamer travelling trunk now. In good usuable condition.
BUT it is TOO BIG!!! It won't fit in a cars boot, or back seat. Not even into my Landcruiser. Not the rear seat. It might in the rear section but I have a cargo barrier, divdervab0nd shelf in mine. Fits an engel and jerry can on a side. Similar on the other. But no steamer trunk!
Only the roof rack. They are heavy! And not waterproof. Also not wheels on the bottom. Designed for the blackamatics trolley or handcart.
Mine has travelled at the very least from Copenhagen to Lima, Peru.
Will takes some photos one day.
They should be very useful.
Maybe one day I will have a Landcruiser Troopie and it can be my permanent travelling wardrobe. After all even in the bush has dressing for dinner completely died out?!
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30/06/22 11:53 PM
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I would make up such a trunk for:
- clothes etc steamer trunk;
- mobile bar plus;
- mobile reloading station! Usuable in thecshed, in front of the tv, in the bush camp.
Like campaign furniture,vdesigned for travel. Royal courts in mediaeval times had furniture designed for travel.
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01/07/22 12:27 AM
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I had a large blue steamer trunk with brass reinforced corners & brass latch, for when I joined "The Force" (RCMP) It was a necessary bit of kit. It was lined with thin cedar as well. We got rid of it a bunch of years back - taking up space and being quite old, was sort-of falling apart. I think maybe wife might have sold it.
It was "shipped" wherever I went, by truck, which was expensive. As long as the gvt. was paying the transfer, all was well. Shipping large items by truck is very expensive, but it followed me for 2 moves (in my truck), after leaving the Force, to where we are now. One of my daughters brushed her leg against it walking by and needed a bunch of stitches to close the wound from the brass lock/clasp.
Mine looked just like this, with blue-enameled tin outside.
HA!- it actually looked identical to that one. LOL
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01/07/22 02:32 AM
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Very nice trunk Daryl; would fairly deserve a bit of restoration!
Louis
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01/07/22 06:28 PM
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I'll have to shrink Daryl's image.
My steamer trunk is one of the fold open wardrobe types.
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24/10/22 03:54 AM
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Re: Life is a Safari
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Welcome to Africa
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NitroX
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(.700 member)
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24/10/23 09:09 PM
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Re: Life is a Safari
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I must get back to my "safari life" ...
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