The attached photo, of British drivers in the queue at Habur, has been aired a couple of times on the Promotor drivers thread in the past. I asked if any of the drivers could be identified without a great deal of success. Since then I posted the photo on Facebook, where it appears many of our old colleagues reside, and a few more names have materialised.
There are seven drivers shown and going from right to left we have;—
- Frank White.
- Unknown driver.
- Roger Heath in the blue shirt was driving the Volvo F12 EKR 459V with Astran trailer WG57. This trailer was ex George Hall, Barry Barnes and Peter Hicks.
- Tommy Birch of Promotor.
- Possibly John Dowdall with the camera.
- Possibly Alan Thornton.
- Ken Ward.
If anyone has any other ideas I’d be pleased to know.
And whilst on the subject of Turkey, well Habur is there, I was watching the ‘Tour of Turkey’ cycle race a couple of weeks ago and was astounded by all the super highways they have now. Bit different than in our day but one thing I did notice was they have only just started the bridge and super highway to replace the Canakale ferry. The new suspension bridge will have a centre span over two kilometres long and be the longest in the world.
