Challenge: Records are there to be broken but I honestly think ours is almost impossible to even have a sniff at breaking.
Christmas Presents: Get the 2012 Guinness World Record book for everyone you know! We made it into one of the best books in the world!
A fitting end: After picking up the Guinness World Record with some of the team I headed back to Wimborne. Just me, Martha, the record, and the open road. It seemed very fitting to park the truck at my family home for her final day.
In an11th hour stop press moment we arrived at Guinness World Records to an incredible reception from their entire office! Just a week before we were working around the clock for 4 days to assemble what looked like a final year FTFE dissertation. To confirm our miles and route we needed to collate an incredible amount of evidence for Guinness. For myself, James and Amy it seemed nothing had changed. Only a day back from the big adventure and we we still dashing every where in the truck, working to the early hours on routes and customs documents and still wearing our FTFE crew T-shirts! Not the return to normality we were hoping for! Read more →
After 9 months the Follow That Fire Engine arrive back in Greenwich.
Your crew ..
Steve Moore, Chris Moore, Ross Shepley-Smith, George Troughton, Ben Battye, Ben Haslett, James Morrow, David Orders, Ailsa Fereday, Paul Barham, James Stevens, Michelle Mahoney, Lyndsey Baker, Seve Poderoso, Amy Harpin, Louise Mahoney, Fuad Sulejmanovic, Kate Bartishel, Chris Hallward, Rob Poderoso, Valerie Keith, Gemma Rowlan, Steve Shoppman, Matt Haynes and Mehul Patel.
George has done an awesome job of mapping our journey around the world. You can zoom out to see the entire route or zoom in to see more detail. Each of the red pins is a blog from that location. Super stuff George ! This page is always available by clicking on the image of the world map on the home page.
Good friends of FTFE Rebecca and Nicola have put together a beautiful book about Martha’s Long Journey.
Buy it here, all profits go to our three wonderful charities. Click on this image to buy.
A MASSIVE personal thank you from me and the team for this epic effort. Talented ladies !! Cheers Steve
Rebecca’s Story
“Once upon a time I was browsing in a bookstore, fruitlessly searching for a really good book about fire engines for my 3–year old nephew Joseph. It occurred to me that I already knew the story of the world’s greatest fire engine: Martha! All I had to do was to write it down, find a fantastic illustrator, publish it, market it, and my nephew would have the perfect book.
And so the book project was born. This one’s for you, Joseph!”
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Nicola’s Story
“My problem is I can’t say no! I hope that my drawings will make someone smile and the money raised from our work will help make a life better. So in support of friendship and of Martha, I share my imaginings.”
The illustrator and author are both friends of Steve Moore, the expedition leader. They have never met; Rebecca lives in Chicago, USA and Nicola in Bournemouth in the UK. The inspiring story of Martha’s voyage around the world brought them together and kept them hard at work for some time on the story of “Martha’s Long Journey”. We hope you and your children enjoy reading it as much as we enjoyed putting it together.
