On Tue, 22 Mar 2005 18:44:30 +0000, Cotty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Plans continue for the jaunt in London at the beginning of May. I would
> quite like to go on a London Ducktour. What that, I hear you cry. It's an
> 80 minute tour around central London that takes in the usual hotspots
> like Parliament Square and Buckingham Palace, and then plunges *into* the
> Thames and motors down river a while....
Most recommended.  The DUKW is a very fun ride.  Never been to London,
but quite a few "tourist traps" in the US operate them.
> 

> PS -  Bonus points if you know what DUKW stands for without looking it up.
Don't remember.  But I do know they were made by GM Corporation and
quite a few were pushed into the ocean and sunk at the end of WWII. 
The Navy didn't feel like hauling them home and then having to
maintain them.
> 



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Scott Loveless
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