We have shown these before, in 2005, the year I began the
Kilcullen Diary, but the links disappeared and I've resurrected the prints from my old black-and-white box,
writes Brian Byrne.
Taken by
Pat Maxwell Photography, for use in a newspaper article, they are of Pastor Robert Dunlop and his congregation in his innovative Churchmobile.
The prints were supplied to me for an article I wrote in my early days in journalism in the late 1970s, and it is great to keep them in the community's memory.
The idea garnered much coverage worldwide. The screenshot above is a reference to the initiative as reported in the book
Special Use Vehicles: An Illustrated History of Unconventional Cars and Trucks Worldwide by George W Green. Below is how the vehicle was described in
The Wonderful Wacky World of Marketingmobiles: Promotional Vehicles of the World, by James Hale.
According to a report in
The Gleaner newspaper in Jamaica, the first service in the Churchmobile on Sunday 2 January 1972. And there was a very comprehensive story in March 1973 on the Nashville-based
BP - Baptist Press Newsletter (below). That same year it was reported on in the
Dayton Daily News.
Pastor Dunlop
passed away in February 2014.
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