Middle East - Not Astran!

[newmercman]

Found this on Facebook, definitely British as it's a 290. Looks like he's having a bad day.

[DEANB]

Found this on Facebook, definitely British as it's a 290. Looks like he's having a bad day.

Thats a cracking pic,take a while to dig that one out.



I know its a bus but still a fair old trip back in 1963.

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[ERF-NGC-European]

Great pic here, found on-line. Robert

[John West]

Found this on Facebook, definitely British as it's a 290. Looks like he's having a bad day.

I remember Ashworths. Silver, looked pretty good. I thought they were from around Blackburn, but I consulted Mike Wheatley (wherever the road took me author) and he remembers them as being from the Isle of Man.

John.

[dieseldog999]

Found this on Facebook, definitely British as it's a 290. Looks like he's having a bad day.

I remember Ashworths. Silver, looked pretty good. I thought they were from around Blackburn, but I consulted Mike Wheatley (wherever the road took me author) and he remembers them as being from the Isle of Man.

John.

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
deffo a feather in your truckie cap being a long distance lorry driver on the isle of man

[DEANB]

Article about Pat Seal.

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[sandway]

Pat Seal. A nice article about him and what a character he was.

[DEANB]

Athol Addison 1983.

Click on pages twice to read.

[sandway]

Don't know if this photo of a PLT Volvo in Orient Transport livery has been on here before but since "Jazzandy' started this thread I thought it appropriate that the image be shown for all to see. However, as he doesn't drop in here any more he won't know what he's missing. Come back Andy.

[GS OVERLAND]

Yes, I believe it was judging by the trailer number and it looks like "Nice" Nigel Harness at the wheel.

[ERF-NGC-European]

It's amazing how many Dutch companies did Middle-East. This pic looks as if it is part of a trailer registration document (a Dutch requirement) or perhaps an equivalent of our old GV60 for TIR-convention journeys. Robert

[Jazzandy]

Don't know if this photo of a PLT Volvo in Orient Transport livery has been on here before but since "Jazzandy' started this thread I thought it appropriate that the image be shown for all to see. However, as he doesn't drop in here any more he won't know what he's missing. Come back Andy.

Pretty sure that's 'Nice Nigel' in the Peter King Volvo. He was involved in the terrible accident near Damascus when we had three trucks returning from Kuwait. It was on the dual carriageway and all three were approaching the brow of a hill passing a slow local truck. Over the brow came another local on the wrong side of the road. The first truck was able to swing in but the second took a head on and the poor driver was killed instantly. Incidents like that really sobered you up and made you realise the risks we were all running.

[sandway]

That must have been the accident my son was involved in Andy. It was his first and last M/E trip. Martin, from your office, rang me to break the news but he didn't know at that time which driver was involved. Luckily for us it wasn't Chris.

[Jazzandy]

That must have been the accident my son was involved in Andy. It was his first and last M/E trip. Martin, from your office, rang me to break the news but he didn't know at that time which driver was involved. Luckily for us it wasn't Chris.

Crikey I didn't realise your son was involved. It really was an awful accident. He was very very lucky/

[sandway]

Don't know if this photo of a PLT Volvo in Orient Transport livery has been on here before but since "Jazzandy' started this thread I thought it appropriate that the image be shown for all to see. However, as he doesn't drop in here any more he won't know what he's missing. Come back Andy.

Pretty sure that's 'Nice Nigel' in the Peter King Volvo. He was involved in the terrible accident near Damascus when we had three trucks returning from Kuwait. It was on the dual carriageway and all three were approaching the brow of a hill passing a slow local truck. Over the brow came another local on the wrong side of the road. The first truck was able to swing in but the second took a head on and the poor driver was killed instantly. Incidents like that really sobered you up and made you realise the risks we were all running.

Another photo of PLT in Orient livery Andy and in Kuwait by the look of it.

[ERF-NGC-European]

There's a new Centruum thread on Toprun website with loads of good pics from the TIR trail. And for authentic modellers out there, more 'weathered' lorries than you could shake a winding handle at! Here's the link:

http://www.toprun.ch/truck/2019-12/Centrum/

Robert

[DEANB]

I wonder who operated these in Saudi Arabia.

[whisperingsmith]

Old Middle East hands will be smiling now with the Bog Roll shortage

Eat with the right / clean with the left

Ankara Khazi

Going south out of Ankara toward the salt flats

[ERF-NGC-European]

Some really good Middle-East pics just gone on the Toprun website. Here's the link:

http://www.toprun.ch/truck/2020-04/Jean_Fayolle/

Enjoy! Ro

[Suedehead]

Good god.
Swiss subby perchance

[robthedog]

F89

[DEANB]

F89

Cracking pic Rob.

Heres some more F89's.

[ERF-NGC-European]

There's a new gallery of pics (Swiss-Iran) on Toprun this month. A right old feast for F88/9 lovers! Here's the link:

http://www.toprun.ch/truck/2020-06/Marcel_Comte/

[sandway]

Nmp. PLT pulling for Orient. Possibly Syria or eastern Turkey.

[ERF-NGC-European]

Nmp. PLT pulling for Orient. Possibly Syria or eastern Turkey.

Looks vaguely reminiscent of Kici, a Turkish village at the top of the pass going south after Belen just before it drops very steeply down to Reyhanli where you pick up the final stretch to the border at Cilvegozu / Bab al Hawa (Syria).

[John West]

Nmp. PLT pulling for Orient. Possibly Syria or eastern Turkey.

Looks vaguely reminiscent of Kici, a Turkish village at the top of the pass going south after Belen just before it drops very steeply down to Reyhanli where you pick up the final stretch to the border at Cilvegozu / Bab al Hawa (Syria).

I suspect someone has climbed the hill shown in this photo, taken by me in January 1976, where John Hallibone in the yellow Daf, Andy West in the Micon 110 (probably his camera) and myself stopped for tea before heading on to Silver Gazoo, and taken a photo looking down on that lay-by.

[John West]

Brother Andy has asked me to post these two photos, as he thinks John looks on here. The first is labelled:
'John Yorkston Paxton sawing wood to put between broken spring and chassis. Nis, Yugoslavia 03/03/84.'

The second is labelled:
'Broken spring with block in place. Nis, Yugoslavia 03/03/84.'

I'm guessing from the date and knowing that Andy was in Dammam, heading home, on 20th of Feb that year, that this would be his next outbound journey, so that block of wood would have some work to do over the coming weeks!
Happy Days!

[Germanjock]

Hi Everybody
Looking for any EX C.M. Burke drivers and what has happened to them.

Bryan Dutthorn (GermanJock).

[5thwheel]

Nmp. PLT pulling for Orient. Possibly Syria or eastern Turkey.

Looks vaguely reminiscent of Kici, a Turkish village at the top of the pass going south after Belen just before it drops very steeply down to Reyhanli where you pick up the final stretch to the border at Cilvegozu / Bab al Hawa (Syria).

I suspect someone has climbed the hill shown in this photo, taken by me in January 1976, where John Hallibone in the yellow Daf, Andy West in the Micon 110 (probably his camera) and myself stopped for tea before heading on to Silver Gazoo, and taken a photo looking down on that lay-by.

John do you know what the initials on the two trailers stand for?



David

[John West]

Nmp. PLT pulling for Orient. Possibly Syria or eastern Turkey.

Looks vaguely reminiscent of Kici, a Turkish village at the top of the pass going south after Belen just before it drops very steeply down to Reyhanli where you pick up the final stretch to the border at Cilvegozu / Bab al Hawa (Syria).

I suspect someone has climbed the hill shown in this photo, taken by me in January 1976, where John Hallibone in the yellow Daf, Andy West in the Micon 110 (probably his camera) and myself stopped for tea before heading on to Silver Gazoo, and taken a photo looking down on that lay-by.

John do you know what the initials on the two trailers stand for?


David

Finally got to see brother Andy. (Socially distanced of course!) We both have the same memory that the trailers were hired from a company in Manchester. I think it's AFS. My trailer was from the same place I think, mine said SKI on the side. Whether either logo stood for anything, neither of us remember. A model maker from Carlisle who Andy called Uncle Malcolm made a model of Andy's 110 and was going to do the AFS trailer, but sadly died before he got to it.

John