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From: Garret Walker, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA

The fourth pre-production test abroad:
The Kenya Test, March 1963

Kenya March 1963
#1. Super Minx with a flat tyre
Imp spares removed from the Super Minx boot to get at the spare wheel.
Garry W.: the front wishbone and rear suspension probably got used somewhere along the line...

 

Kenya March 1963
#2. WHS 156 & WHS 157 and three engineers
Photo developed in London, not in Nairobi like the others.

 

Kenya March 1963
#3. Kenneth S.: Vic Gorman on the right and I believe Stewart Peck (Pressed Steel) on the left

 

Kenya March 1963
#4. Kenneth S.: Bill Mair of Woodhead Monroe

 

Kenya March 1963
#5. G. Walker comment: Game Warden to keep us honest

 

Dick Puxted - Kenya March 1963
#6. Richard Puxted [see: personnel]

 

Kenya March 1963
#7. KS: Vic Gorman; GW: Derek Sleath

 

Ryton
#8. Ken Sharpe

 

Kenya March 1963
#9. KS: The Super Minx bogged down in Amboseli National Park. The Imps were much less prone to getting stuck in the mud than the Super Minx.
We used the Amboseli N.P. because there was very fine dust enabling dust entry and air cleaner tests to be carried out. It wasn't all mud!!


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