Efes:
sandway:
A couple of posts back I mentioned our old mate, Micky Twemlow, a Promotor driver for five years in the late 70’s and early 80’s. As most of you know he wrote three books of his driving exploits and I have borrowed a couple of photos from those books.The first photo is of Micky in about 82 but its the second photo thats the interesting one. Taken in the early to mid 90’s it shows a group of Kepstow Freight drivers and subbies standing in front of Micky’s lorry, who were on their way to an Oil and Gas Exhibition in Baku. A few Promotor drivers ended up on Kepstowe’s and in the photo, third from the right, is John Mantle. Its the only photo I’ve seen of John. He worked in our workshop as a fitter before becoming a Promotor driver in about 84. I never ran with him and in the years we were on Pro’s together I doubt if I saw him more than half a dozen times and most of those were when he was in the workshop.
That’s “Boshing Pete” on the extreme left. Good chap! Ran back from Moscow a few times with him and had one of the funniest nights ever one very, very cold winter night in Warsaw on the way home at the hotel just opposite the Palace of Culture, one of Stalin’s “wedding cake” buildings that were built around the Commie bloc. A building hated by the Poles. I shall relate this story a bit later… I wonder if Pete’s around these days? I am in touch with Henry Osbourne late of Kepstowe (management) still and must ask. Had many a good night out with Henry in Bulgaria (Plovdiv).
Happy days.
I read that Johnny Mantle was very badly damaged recently in a motorbike accident and was at Stoke Manderville… The now late Mick Twemlow told me this by email shortly before he died of cancer. I wonder has anyone any news on Johnnie?
Pete Newlyn aka ‘Boshing Pete’ passed away at the end of 2015
