Sahara safari
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However hot it might have been in Manchester, school teacher Alistair Kenney and his pupils from .Shorefields • Comprehensive School in Liverpool are getting it muck warmer. LaSt week one of our Men of Kent passed the party in their Austin trucks heading for Dover and the start of a 10,000mile trip which will take them across the Sahara and back. This is their fourth trip to Africa and not unnaturally overheating has been one of their biggest problems.
Before they left, the trucks had their radiators modified by Inrad Services Ltd of Liverpool. They were reinforced with an extra large core and have a gravity fed cooling system using anti-freeze! This will apparently help them to cope with temperatures of up to 156 degrees. One of the other dangers facing the party is a hippopotamus attack. However, no one has come up with any defence against these 'African juggernauts.