Thursday, April 17, 2008

Popemobiles




I was fascinated by the latest "popemobile", rather than stand the Pope sits on a chair which is raised and lowered hydraulically. I'm old enough to remember when these things were achieved manually.
Times online has a series of popemobiles past and present.
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1 comment:

Paul Knight said...

I like Pius XII's best. :-D

17/4/08 10:23 am

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