Road trip to Canberra

I had to go to Canberra for work today, so I decided to take the 250SE on a road trip.    I hadn’t taken it for a long drive for a while, and I thought a road trip would do it good.   It was too cold to open the roof, but It was nice to get the car out on the open road.

250SE in front of old Parliament house.

After I had finished work, I headed over to the national library as I had wanted to do some more research on the original owner of the car, the prominent Australian Diplomat Brian C Hill.   I was able to find various newspaper cuttings on him, and also find out how I can request more information from the national archive.

As well as his overseas postings, where apparently he took the car with him on many, he also had various roles in Canberra, making it very likely that this car has not only spent a lot of time in Canberra, but probably done the drive between Sydney and Canberra on numerous occasions.