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    OPERATION TRANSMATILDA

    Mar 03, 2021 4 minutes
    Compiled from the original work by Danny Curran with photographs by Vern Train.
    Additional photos by Rob Lewis.

    aving invested in a new factory at Benalla, Victoria, the makers of Renold motorcycle chain were keen to demonstrate the quality of the local product, marketed as Transmar. And so a plan was devised to fit two 500cc motorcycles with extra tanks and other equipment and send them off on what became known as Operation Transmatilda – a complete circumnavigation of Australia – a distance of over 11,000 miles (17,700km) – using a single chain per motorcycle for the entire journey. The

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