Any old promotor drivers around

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;—

  1. Frank White.
  2. Unknown driver.
  3. 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.
  4. Tommy Birch of Promotor.
  5. Possibly John Dowdall with the camera.
  6. Possibly Alan Thornton.
  7. 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.