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Anzac Day convoy for vets
John Morcombe
22 April 2008
MANLY Warringah Cabs will again transport war veterans to the Anzac Day march in the city on Friday morning and are asking local residents to line the route and wave to the Diggers.
This is the 53rd year that the local cab group has transported Diggers from the RSL War Veterans' Village at Collaroy Plateau.
Manly Warringah Cabs vice-chairman Doug Edmonds, whose father Norm helped organise the first convoy in 1956, has been co-ordinating the event for 40 years and every year leads the fleet.
Until this year, petrol giant BP gave the cab company fuel vouchers worth $1800 to cover the fuel bill, but has pulled the plug this year. Titan Ford and Warringah Brakes have stepped into the breach.
"Harbord Diggers and Dee Why RSL also throw in food and drinks, so it's great that local businesses get behind the cavalcade," he said. "All the drivers donate their cars and their time, and they always look forward to it."
Escorted by Northern Beaches and Harbourside Highway Patrol, the 60-cab procession leaves the RSL Veterans' Retirement Village at Collaroy Plateau at 7.20am.
It then travels along Veterans Pde to Heather St, down Parkes Rd and South Creek Rd to Pittwater Rd, along which it continues until it joins Condamine St at Brookvale, then along the Burnt Bridge Creek Deviation and Manly Rd to The Spit and on to the city.
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