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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.
Henry Osborne formerly of Kepstowe told me about this photo “on the first convoy to Baku for the Caspian Oil and Gas. They had an armed ■■■■■■ and shot a lot of duck one night with a Kalashnikov machine gun!”
Attached is a photo of the Kepstowe convoy to Baku taken from Micky Twemlow’s first book ‘The Vodka-Cola Cowboy’. Didn’t know there was more than one convoy though.
When I did it the only convoy was from the Turk/Georgia border at Sarp, to Kutaisi in Georgia. You didn’t need to join it coming back empty. Robert