1968 Weet-Bix : This World of Speed



This World of Speed trading card series was distributed in 1968 by the Sanitarium Health Food Company in Australia and New Zealand. One card was included with each specially marked box of Weet-Bix breakfast cereal. A collector poster book was available by mailing a five-cent stamp to the Sanitarium Health Food Company office.

1968 Weet-Bix : This World of Speed #18 - Intelstat III Satellite

The collection includes an Intelsat III communications satellite. The card text misspells the name as "Intelstat III." Six of eight Intelsat III satellite relays were successfully launched into geostationary orbit from September 19, 1968, to July 23, 1970. The Intelsat program was part of the Communications Satellite Corporation (COMSAT) global communication system. Each Intelsat III satellite could transmit 1,200–1,500 two-way voice channels or four television circuits.

1968 Weet-Bix : This World of Speed #18 - Intelstat III Satellite


The World of Speed
1 American Cotton Picker
2 Bucket Wheel Dredger
3 "Fairlight" Hydrofoil
4 The Hot Line Stops a War
5 The Camden Park Rotolactor
6 High Speed Medical Camera
7 Plessey Electronic Mail Sorter
8 Crop Duster in Action
9 Boeing 747
10 Computers Fight Crime
11 Computers in Education
12 N.S.W. Flying Ambulance
13 French Aerotrain
14 Loading a Container Ship
15 Australian Radioheliograph
16 COMPAC Ocean Cable
17 British Hovercraft
18 Intelstat III Satellite
19 Conveyor Loading of Ships
20 Automatic Packaging Machine