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ability to remateriafise anywhere in time and space and its interior volume that belies its external dimensions, to have had no trouble in transporting itself and an accompanying exhibition across the Atlantic for a tour of 180 North American towns and cities. Then again, the good doctor has been known to get his co-ordinates wrong and end up in some hostile, dalek-infested region of the universe. Perhaps it is just as well that shipping arrangements have been organised for BBC Enterprises by North American Van Lines of Fe!than Middlesex. As well as acting as forwarding agents the company will be responsible for transporting the exhibition throughout the United States.
The exhibition, contained in a 14.6m trailer, was shipped from Liverpool by Atlantic Container Line aboard its 36,000-tonne roll-on roll-off/container vessel Atlantic Compass.