"A year before the Melbourne Olympics, well-known long distance cyclist Ernie Old wrote to Prime Minister Menzies with a plan to publicise the Games. The 81-year-old would ride around Australia on his trusty Malvern Star and personally deliver invitations to the State premiers ('we want to make our Games an outstanding triumph instead of a dull failure', Mr Old writes)."
"The PM's office loved the idea ('This chap has something'😉 but alas, on this occasion the squeaky wheel did not get the extra grease ('if he dropped dead while delivering notes from you to the Premiers . you would be put down as a heartless creature'😉."
