Greg's diary--January 1978

This diary entry is from memory and with the help of some punch cards that I found on 3 December 2009. At the time I was on holiday in Australia with my wife Doris, who was visiting Australia for the first time.

Currently the entries below are petrol consumption records during a car journey from Melbourne to Queensland and back. The entries have the format miles miles-traveled litres-used $-paid on the first line, and fuel brand, location and date on the second.

Work in progress

Wednesday, 4 January 1978	Melbourne
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72711 (324.1) / 39.68 / 9.49 Shell Melbourne 4.1.78 11.44 l 73008 297,5 49,71 10.0 Mobil Borung 4.1.78 73257 545.4 60.34 11.41 BP Canberra 5.1.78 11.68 l 73591 (244.0) / 44.84 / 7.04 Mobil Sydney 8.1.78 11.46 l 73886 (385.4) / 63.86/ 13,22 Golden Fleece Warree Creek 8.I.78 10,3 l 74261 ( 375,1) / 62,89 / 10,30 Amoco Red Cliff 10.1.78 10,3 l 74633 (372,0) / 62,18 / 13,53 BP Miriam Vale 12.1.78 10,4 l 74919 (471,4) / 60,68 / 13,29 BP Mackay 15.1.78 10,9 l Airlie Beach -> 75225 10.10h 17.1.78 75321 (216,7) / 38,03 / 7,91 Golden Fleece Mackay 17.1. 10,9 l 75568 (246,5) / 38,14 / 8,20 [21,5/l] Mobil Rockhampton 18.1 9,6 l 75874 (306,2) / 43, 02 / 9,58 [22,5/l] BP Miles 18.1 8,7 l 76058 (184,1) / 32,32 / 7,11 [22,0/l] Caltex Warwick,_Queensland 19.1 10,9 l 76368 (309,6) / 52,83 / 10,83 Mobil Tamworth 24.1. 10,6 l 76682 (313,6) / 53,48 / 11,34 Mobil Forbes 25,1. 10,6 l 77007 (325,7) / 54,92 / 9,83 [17,7] Mobil Echuca 25,1 10.5 l 77267 (259,8) / 49,39 / 8,06 BP Melbourne 1.ii 11,8 l

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