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Trip to Fiat, Turin, April 1978

The coxed four takes to the water - probably our first experience of a front-loader. Nigel John is coxing, with Tom Boswell at bow, then Mike Dudley, Willie Almand and Ted Bainbridge stroking. Before they set off for the course, further downstream (to the right), Mike and Tom must have changed places, as Mike was always more comfortable on strokeside. On the raft Graham Lloyd directs the paparazzi (Eddie Wells and Dave Vickers). In the background, just in front of the block of flats, are the remains of a monorail system built for an international exhibition and later dismantled.