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Thread Author: henry k Replies: 12
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 Thu 31 Aug 17 18:52 
 London DUKWs cannot swim anymore - henry k
Another loss to London :-(

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-41108276
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 Thu 31 Aug 17 22:22 
 London DUKWs cannot swim anymore - No FM2R
A loss? I'm not sure. Awful smelly, noisy, smoky things.
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 Thu 31 Aug 17 22:32 
 London DUKWs cannot swim anymore - Zero
I have been on it. Its actually quite scary in the water when the Thames is a bit choppy.
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 Thu 31 Aug 17 23:05 
 London DUKWs cannot swim anymore - legacylad
I seem to recall Duck Tours in Liverpool... think I saw one last year when we went on a WI trip....they advertised for people to fill empty seats on the coach and it seemed like a cheap way to have a day on the lash in a different city. Some fantastic pubs!
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 Thu 31 Aug 17 23:37 
 London DUKWs cannot swim anymore - rtj70
They used to have the DUKWs in Liverpool but the tours ended some time ago. Didn't help when one sank....

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_BbWXiddG4

They tried to bring them back but turned down for safety reasons.

www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/bid-yellow-duckmarine-style-tours-return-8473145
Last edited by: rtj70 on Thu 31 Aug 17 at 23:40
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 Thu 31 Aug 17 23:53 
 London DUKWs cannot swim anymore - smokie
I did the London one a few years back, quite good fun... shame they're going...
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 Fri 1 Sep 17 00:04 
 London DUKWs cannot swim anymore - CGNorwich
They have them in Singapore if you really miss them.
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 Fri 1 Sep 17 02:18 
 London DUKWs cannot swim anymore - Hard Cheese
They have, or had, them in Boston MA, should be museum pieces ....
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 Fri 1 Sep 17 08:39 
 London DUKWs cannot swim anymore - Fenlander
I am at a loss to understand how these were ever MCA coded for public use. Not only were they essentially unsuited by design to carrying fee paying folks on the water all of them were bodged up heaps of rusty junk with welded plates on plates on rust.

It seems their crossover between vehicle and boat confused the authorities and they were poorly regulated from the waterborne perspective.

Each time there was a problem the potential for loss of lives was only narrowly avoided.
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 Sat 2 Sep 17 21:19 
 London DUKWs cannot swim anymore - Bill Payer
>> They used to have the DUKWs in Liverpool but the tours ended some time ago.
>> Didn't help when one sank....
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>> www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_BbWXiddG4
>>

The Queen had been on that not long before it sank. I wonder if she can swim?
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 Sun 3 Sep 17 14:48 
 London DUKWs cannot swim anymore - The Melting Snowman
>> The Queen had been on that not long before it sank. I wonder if she
>> can swim?


One's staff would come to One's rescue, surely?

Those contraptions do look rather basic, not sure I would have gone on it.
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 Fri 1 Sep 17 08:50 
 London DUKWs cannot swim anymore - Mapmaker
It's very sad. But they were never seaworthy even when they were made so it's a jolly good thing really. Odd that it's not the seaworthiness that's sinking them.
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 Sun 3 Sep 17 11:42 
 London DUKWs cannot swim anymore - Harleyman
It's probably a tribute to GMC that they still actually work at all given that their design life was probably less than sixty months never mind sixty years.

I remember going on the ones at Mablethorpe when I was a kid in the early 1970's.
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