As I said in my last post, I met Derick Minter Just before I gave up the spanners and went on for Carmans,and I was doing unacompanied trailers out of and into Dover for my first couple of weeks in an old F88 240 that had been retired from European work.Yes,we had to have a full range of trailer light lens’s and palm coupling adaptors as you didn’t know what you’d be up against until you picked your trailer up.
Then I was told that I was off to Baghdad,in the same motor!.Took a week to get her ready,did the trip but she was retired again after the first trip as it was decided that if a motor was older than one year it shouldn’t really be doing m/e full time.
I left Carmans in '77 so it must have been before Derick Minter started on there as I never ran into him again.
AEH 754H on her first and only m/e trip.