Baghdad Bus: The Crazy 1930s Off-Road Desert Bus with a Kitchen & Beds

Build a hassle-free website and see how Odoo can help you! https://www.odoo.com/r/10c In the heat of the 1930s Syrian Desert, the world's largest bus blasts through the sand. The unique vehicles of the Nairn Transport Company once ruled the desert, forging a path where no vehicles had gone before. Founded by two Kiwis, by the 1930s Nairn Transport had developed some of the most advanced and luxurious overland transport found anywhere in the world. But how did it work? What happened to them and where, perhaps, are they now? Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/calumraasay Buy me a coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/calumraasay The amazing 3D Models by Brendon Kibler! Check him out: http://lumoize.artstation.com Sources: "Nairn Bus to Baghdad" by JS Tullet UK: https://amzn.to/3X7PBqb US: https://amzn.to/3VpSbqt "The Nairn Way" by John M Munro: UK: https://amzn.to/3VpbaAj US: https://amzn.to/3X5gLxY Radio Interview with Norman Nairn: https://www.ngataonga.org.nz/search-use-collection/search/15366/ Fun Article with some interesting illustrations! https://www.mashallahnews.com/the-desert-pullmans/ Good Aramcoworld article on the service: https://archive.aramcoworld.com/issue/198104/the.nairn.way.htm Those lovely posters: https://sites.northwestern.edu/northwesternlibrary/2017/03/14/crossing-the-desert-in-an-armchair/ Twitter......................►https://twitter.com/calumraasay Instagram................►http://instagram.com/calumraasay Discord.....................►https://discord.gg/BPahz6vHJd Website....................►http://calumgillies.com 00:00 - Intro 02:17 - Thanks Odoo! 04:14 - The Motor Car Comes to the Middle East 04:42 - The Nairns 05:13 - Expedition Across the Desert 06:51 - Baghdad to New York in 15 Days? 07:44 - "The Nairn Way" Grows 08:47 - Norman Nairn Speaks 10:07 - The Largest Bus in the World! 15:38 - WWII Service 17:03 - The Ultimate Desert Bus 21:56 - What Happened to the Desert Buses? 25:40 - Waffling on a Bit