backsplice:
This was me pickin up a few pallets of rice Jeddah docks 1200 kgs a pallet
Nothing wrong with that 4 axles 40 ton.
Jeff…
Jelliot:
backsplice:
This was me pickin up a few pallets of rice Jeddah docks 1200 kgs a palletNothing wrong with that 4 axles 40 ton.
Jeff…
Over 48 ton Jeff and praying that it wont rain. 
mushroomman:
Jelliot:
backsplice:
This was me pickin up a few pallets of rice Jeddah docks 1200 kgs a palletNothing wrong with that 4 axles 40 ton.
Jeff…
Over 48 ton Jeff and praying that it wont rain.
50.4 tonnes, by my arithmetic, assuming that includes the pallets themselves. Add the lorry itself, and you get about 62 tons on 4 axles. Allow for 8 on the front and that’s about 18 each on the rest. The tyres look remarkably round, considering…
Sorry officer I forgot to allow for the weight of the truck honest mistake.
Jeff…
gazzer:
There is a thread on Facebook with these photos. Im not sure if they’ve been “borrowed” or they are the thread owners.
Search: AUTISTI TIR VETERANI DEL MEDIORIENTE & FRIENDS on FB.
The picture of the Transcon on H4 is mine,I believe it’s been round the world a time or two!,(The picture,not the truck).
Click on my links below to see the original.
bestbooties:
gazzer:
There is a thread on Facebook with these photos. Im not sure if they’ve been “borrowed” or they are the thread owners.
Search: AUTISTI TIR VETERANI DEL MEDIORIENTE & FRIENDS on FB.The picture of the Transcon on H4 is mine,I believe it’s been round the world a time or two!,(The picture,not the truck).
Click on my links below to see the original.
The photo of Chris Coopers Transconti was taken by Ron Johnson, and like BB photos has been used many times by other folk. I always though it was taken at Dover round the back of the Wheel House but he told me it as actually at Thames port where he used to go truck hunting for photos on the way home from work.
There’s credit to the photographer of the Astran subbie in one of Ferdie’s Trans Orient books, but I’ll have to dig it out and get a name.
Jeff…
Jeff did you ever come across a chap from Selkirk Bobby Park he drove for Dawson int. at Innerleithan and moved to Leicester area with them and he was on the middle east for a good few years. He was with a Leicester firm who was ■■■■■■■ with an Aberdeen haulier he often had a blue and yellow Mercedes unit I think they worked for Cunard??. Eddie.
Hi Eddie, In the early 80’s my Dad sold a large part of our yard containing a big shed to Pringle Knitwear group, to run there transport division Dawson International. The first thing they did was put a massive security fence round it then they tarred it from on end to another, and it instantly became known locally as the play pen. They had so much money to spend it was totally unreal and very foreign to us, no one in our area had ever seen anything like it, so most transport folk used to refer to them as the Martians.
Everything was buy the book and they even had their own taco card analyzing machine.
I remember Bobby Park as in my occasional days off I used to hang about with Bert Horseburgh ( Salvesen ) and Jimmy (Hill Van Hee) When Bobby was in the area he used to come and see us. He turned up in the yard one day with his tilt, I can’t remember who he was driving for as the memory fades. The last time I saw him was at the docks in either Ancona or Barri. When I was doing Tunisia I used to back load marble form the south of Italy and used the docks as safe parking. I can’t remember if Bobby was coming in or waiting to go out.
I"m sure my Dad said he was at Berts funeral.
Jeff…
Thanks for the reply Jeff I thought being from your neck o the woods you might know him. Eddie.
PanX:
truckerash:
PanX:
Waiting for the ferry at Ostende 1980 . I seem to remember I was taking this machine to Rhymney /Rhumney in Welsh Wales Mick
Well…Well…Well…Thanks for posting this picture Mick. The truck has been a topic of conversation between Robert Dods Brown and myself for many years! He took the photo below but cannot remember who’s the F88 belonged to and it’s been driving him nuts for around 8 years now!
Thanks to you, the mystery has been solved and I can happily tell him who’s it was.
By the way, is that you standing by the F88 Mick ?
Hi Ash
Glad I have been able to help, yes the Old F88, “Jubilee Queen” It was owned by John Bull Shipping from Godalming,based just outside Guildford. I have another photo of it somewhere, I’ll put it on here shortly. It was a great truck and it’s nice to see it in such good company parked up in the desert. I wondered if that Grangewood motor was Fred’s. By the way It’s not me posing in front of the motor in your photo but I’ll put one on with me and my old 141. (much slimmer and a bit more hair in those days)
I’ve not looked on the thread for a week or two and the number of new quality photo’s that have landed are amazing. Thanks to Robert and everyone else who has put them on.
Mick
For Robert a better picture of John Bull Shipping’s f88 Jubilee Queen Loaded and ready to go.
Mick Buckingham 1980
Subbing for Halibut and Silverfish 1985/6 ish.This Photo was taken in West Berlin pre glasnos, brother in law Neil came for a trip.
Heading for Ipsala , Greek Drawbar outfit seems to have parted company with his trailer.
Here is one overlander that did,nt make it it was parked in our yard (SARAMAT)in Jeddah for quite some time I,m not sure of nationality but may have been Dutch ■■?
freshir:
Hi Mick. No mate that is not me with the Grangewood F12, I can’t recognise the driver positively but it may be Johnny Holland at a guess, perhaps David Miller will know, I had a 141
Fred
No Fred, it was Jimmy Conners. That was one of 2 F12’s we had - his was UME…S and mine was UMU930S.
Kenny still swears blind that your motor was a 140 with a dodgy badge, BTW!
But anyway who was the Spiers and Hartwell driver?
David.
PanX:
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I had a jumper the same as that, bad times for sartorial elegance 
backsplice:
I was only taking it into the terminal “UP THE ROAD” lots of fun them days!!
Keep on finding odd ones
Hiya jackdaw just spotted you on-line
Great photos Guesty 44 keep looking you might find some more nuggets.
Jeff…
Jelliot:
Great photos Guesty 44 keep looking you might find some more nuggets.Jeff…
Hiya this is all we do “eh” when hang
them up. At least we were there.“jelliot” (jeff)
Guesty44 (Freddie) 
Awreet Freddie. 
newmercman:
I had a jumper the same as that, bad times for sartorial elegance
…So did I!! Must have been a South London thing!
