The final design of the torch that will make a 550 mile round trip across Suffolk around the county has been revealed.
Celebrating all the county has to offer, the Festival of Suffolk will bring the torch to 250 towns and villages.
The festival is set to be one of Suffolk’s biggest ever community celebrations and the county’s way of marking the Queen’s platinum jubilee.
The torch designers say it symbolises a bright future for Suffolk and has been manufactured using high-tech design and production methods, including 3D print with ultra-lightweight carbon fibre.
It also references the past, particularly focusing on the 70 year reign of Queen Elizabeth.
It will be carried by local heroes and passed via rickshaw.
The torch was designed by the CEO of Brafe, Andrew Dalby, and manufactured by his team.
Mr Dalby said: "I was sent a lot of images of past Olympic Torches, I thought this isn’t what we are really about in Suffolk.
"I sat down on my tea break, thinking I would like it square, with something on the end so it doesn’t fly off when you hold it, and also truncated so it doesn’t slide up and down.
"After I sketched it, Chris Pritchard in the Brafe Engineering machine shop put it into a digital form and came back and said it would weigh 13 kilograms.
"That was a problem as some people would not be able to carry that weight very far. Then, we thought that we could 3D print this in a lightweight composite.
"There are 70 holes in each torch, so 17 on two sides, and 18 on the others, equals 70 and the two extra missing holes are a lovely spot to put the Festival of Suffolk logo on one side, and the lovely symbol of the Festival, designed by Joe Barnes, on the other."
Energy on Tap's Mark Brennan, who is the organiser of the torch relay, said: "We were keen that the entire project would leave a very low carbon footprint.
"We were very conscious that, in the current climate, everyone is concerned about the environment."
The torch will leave from Brandon on May 13, and will finish at the Suffolk Show in Ipswich on June 1. For more details, or to get involved, visit www.festivalofsuffolk.org
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