Of course! If matey there has spotted a Maserati tooling down that acceleration lane at more than seven snails a fortnight, I’ll wager that it’ll make no odds whether he stays in one lane or the other 
Greetings from sunny Kent
Yes, ok, I get the message. It’s sunny in Kent. Won’t be many days though before we add to the 320 days of sunshine per year this area enjoys. Until then I’ll just be miserable.
1 Like
I was expecting to hear that driving in the wrong direction might be involved…
Quite difficult to do on a m-way but I confess I started to do such on smaller roads. 
No kittens hurt etc, but non the less worrying.
I know there have been many anecdotes posted here of the well known owner driver, Andrew Wilson-Young but as this is such a good photo of him, on the right, and his rig that I thought I would repeat my own experience of meeting Andrew. It was the only time I bumped into him and I’m not sure where we were but I think it must have been Bulgy or Romania and it was in a customs office. I and many others were trying to get to the one window that was open to hand in our TIR Carnet. It was a bit of a scrum and we didn’t seem to be getting anywhere when suddenly this booming voice from the back was ordering people to move over and let him through. He kept repeating, “please move I’m British”, over and over and people did move and he went to the front of the queue where he rapped on the window which miraculously opened, his carnet was taken and handed back in a couple of minutes whence he took it, thanked the customs officer, turned around and thanked us then disappeered out the door. We were just standing there gobsmacked. No wonder he could get to Doha in 6 days.
I had a very similar experience the handful of times I saw him – always in a hurry and no time to talk or share a cuppa or beer - but those times he was always wearing shorts and wellies.
Wearing long trousers as per the photo seems to be rather unusual.
There were stories of him in one of the Aran states ( I forget which) where sleeping in the cab was forbidden so he pitched up to camp at the embassy saying if they didn’t want him to sleep there they should “sort of the local Johnnies”
One of the great characters…
There’s been a lot of photos on the web recently of that place we mostly hated with a vengeance. Here’s a few of them possibly taken by Frank Willis. In the third photo a ‘Promotor Panic Van’ can be seen bottom left.
Of note I see one of Lowe’s doube-drive C-series ERFs with frigo in Pic 1; a Phillip Crouch of Appledore, Kent F10 or 12 tilt in Pics 2 & 3; a pair of Turkish Kenworths from Adana in Pic 4; and a sprinkle of Skodas (prob. CSAD from Czech) and an East Kent AEC Reliance in Pic 8.
Just seen this photo of Roger Hayworth, Astran subbie, posing by his unit. He seemed good at that as in the second photo he is leaning on John ‘Wellie’ Ward’s smashed up unit in southern Turkey.
Downside is those pesky Haggises are very difficult to catch
Couple of interesting photos of Promotor driver Ray Scutts when he worked for Asian Transport. Ray took loads of photos during his driving career, I wonder where they are now?
Is that Dick Snow pi$$ing on the wheel in the 2nd pic?
The first photo shows the Autoput from Zagreb to Belgrade. A terrible concrete road built, or at least funded, by the Americans after WW2. A lot of lorries run off the road perhaps thinking the ploughed field would be smoother. I was not the driver of the Promotor lorry.
It certainly looks like him.
I ran down to Baghdad with Wardy about 10ft behind me all the way. No amount of telling him not to worked.
I let him tip at the Expo and go first so I could travel back without the extra trailer behind me
From the right. Chick Steadman, Ramsey Patterson, Paul Linscott and John Preece on the left. Having a break in southern Turkey.
A few photos from the Baghdad Fair. Well almost, one was taken in the Sheraton Hotel.
This photo has Chick Steadman taking a shower soon after we arrived at the fairground.
Here we have a couple of Davies Turner men. Roger Lucy with white shirt and glasses kneeling down and Alan out from their Southampton depot standing in front and looking directly at the camera.
Taken in the Sheraton Hotel. Promotor’s Tommy Birch in the middle with the smug look on his face whilst I’m on the left looking surprised.
The stand name was ‘Leyland Bus’ as they were there for a big bus contract.
What can you say about these guys! Well the exhibition has just closed on the last day.