A man is searching for two Irish men who helped him escape Australia in a crate.
Brian Robson was 19-years-old when he became homesick while working for Victorian Railways in 1965.
Realising that a plane ticket home would cost him £700 - 17 times his monthly salary - he devised a plan to get himself home.
The now 75-year-old bought a small wooden crate and convinced two Irishmen he knew as Paul and John to stow him aboard a freight plane, he told the Irish Times.
The "quite horrific experience” took four days and during the commute, Brian was repeatedly stored upside down.
Almost six decades on, he is looking to reconnect with the men who helped him get home in a bid to thank them.
“I’m 99% sure that they were called Paul and John,” he told the Irish Times. “Paul really was 100% against it … but John said, ‘Don’t worry about it, I’ll persuade him.’
"And so, they both went ahead and helped.”
Ahead of his perilous journey back to Cardiff, Brian packed a "mini-fridge" sized box with a pillow, a book of Beatles songs and a suitcase.
He also took laxatives for three days before the big journey to make sure he wasn't caught out by drawing attention.
His friends then nailed the package shut with Brian inside, labelled it as a computer and booked it onto a Qantas flight from Melbourne to London.
The plan hit a slight bump in the road when Brian was transferred to a PanAm flight headed for Los Angeles because the original plane was full.
On that flight, he was stored away in a freight shed where, having been stuck in the box for five days, he was too weak to hammer himself out.
Luckily a man “looked through a hole in a wood knot in the chest and we caught each other eye to eye”, Brian told the BBC.
“He jumped back a mile and said, ‘There’s a body in there.’”
After spending five days recovering in hospital, he was questioned by the FBI before being released and allowed to fly on a passenger jet back to the UK.
At the time of the incident, Australian MP Dan Mackinnon reacted strongly to news of the stowaway, demanding legal action against “this apparently useless young man”.
The then-acting Minister for Immigration, Leslie Bury, said that no action would be taken against him.
When Brian got home, he wrote to the two men, with who he got on "famously" with but they never responded.
Now, he does not remember where they were from or what their surnames were.
