Len Beadell
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Leonard Beadell OAM BEM FIEMS was a surveyor, road builder, bushman, artist and author, responsible for constructing over 6,000 km of roads and opening up isolated desert areas – some 2.5 million squa
Len Beadell OAM, BEM, FIEMS
Neale Junction - a Len Beadell marker plate photographed in June 2007
The Gunbarrel Road Construction Party was the name bestowed upon a team of road builders by Len Beadell in 1955, after which the well known outback track Gunbarrel Highway was named. Over a period of
Len Beadell
…Creek to the test site Emu Field was built by him in March 1953, his first road. Beadell's best known road is the Gunbarrel Highway, named after the Gunbarrel Road Construction Party which was assembled by him. He said he tried whenever possible to make the road as straight as a gunbarrel. The road was built with initial reconnaissance…
The original grader of the Gunbarrel Highway
A plaque on the Caterpillar No.12 grader at Giles Weather Station, Western Australia