Astran / Middle East Drivers

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bazz2752:
35 Tentercroft is where Frank lives been down this morning no answer, but a lad in the hallway said he still lives there,so it seems he still alive and kicking.Sorry about the false info,but glad it was wrong i will try over the weekend and let you all know how he,s doing. I,ve not had chance to go and see DC this week don,t know how i found time to work don,t seem to have stopped this last 5yrs.Rgds Bazz.Hi klunk thats Frank you have another that shows more of him still out cold though

Excellent - look forward to hearing further. I think I’ve got a photo of him like the ones above too :laughing:

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To all of you remembering Frank Brandon, here is his F12. I dont know him, I got the photo off some one who used to service his motors

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here is Franks F12. sorry, got it wrong

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Hi Roger.
I noticed that on one of your threads you mention Ian Mellor, would that be the same Ian that ran this smart Foden?

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JAWS:

Gavin McArdle:
Hi all another pic I found TIR donkey carts I expect every driver knows the road but I bet mushroomman even knows the name of the horses :laughing:

The first time I went down this hill I was in a convoy followed by a driver (Norman?) from I think AWW we were doing their work -shipping Merlees-Blackstone engines from Stamford to Riyadh. We were all descending the hill quite slowly when I realised Normans 1924 Merc was along side me making a bit of a noise, I wondered what was going on and slammed on only for Norman to wave me on. I stopped at the bottom of the hill to find out what the problem was, Norman said that he was using the exhaust brake when the truck jumped out of gear, killing the engine. Instead of slamming the brakes on and stopping to sort it out he had re-started the engine and the tried to put it back in gear (crash box) he realised that he had gained a lot of speed and had to swerve around me to avoid crashing. A quick change of underwear and he was on his way-but he wouldn’t use the exhaust brake again :unamused:

Hi Mr G
not every driver has total recall but Dave Mackie and I think that this hill is in Romania on the E60 between Oredea and Cluj betwwen the villages of Borod and Ciucea we think the Hill is Kiraly-Hago? please let us know if we are in the right contry, as for the horse and carts we think it is the night trunk but they are running a bit late
Regards Ian

Hi All, igot the same problem with my brain cells, But!!! i think its the hill on the bottom road,the E70 somewhere between Caransebes and Craiova. I came down it in a blizzard once, the road was iced right up and grip was non existant, i pushed on as far as the TIR park at caransebes and parked up in the dark. Next morning the snow was banked up to roof level. It was 4 days before we could move. Regards Rob

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davemackie:
Nick Bull at Zafafshan Mine, not the same wagon though.

Dave.

Is that one of Hoggsped’s volvo’s next to nick
regards Rob

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Wheel Nut:

JAWS:
Hi RS
John Williams Died inthe late 90’s at Geiselwind about 3 months before the banning of hand gun’s but I can not remember which year. He was and is still missed. along with Geoff (Knocker) Guy.
Regards Ian

That was about 1997 according to this BBC article. news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/politics/21724.stm

I understand how that could have been relevant :wink:

I missed the Funeral and I miss the Man :frowning:

we buried john on october 3rd at newnham, nr daventry, so he would have died around the middle of sept. Chris had spoken to me about bringing john’s body home on the back of victoria and running on red diesel all the way, just so john could get one last one over the germans. In the end he was flown home. the best bloke i have ever worked for.
regards Rob

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Hi Rob, The F16 belonged to Alan Douglas.

Dave.

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Hi all, I think I’m going to give up this retirement lark and go back to being an O/D, I think I had more spare time!!!
Roger belated thanks for putting my name on the plaque at Pats funeral, it looks like you all gave him a good send off! By the way who were all those old men there? I looked very closely and thought that some seemed familiar and then realized perhaps I worked with their sons a few years ago :unamused:
Sheeplady ,you asked how FBI dropped me in it does that mean you have forgotten? I shall have to remind you! Some pages ago there was a pic of a cafe in CZ and someone asked where it was. As soon as I saw it I recognized it and thought that the pic may have been taken from Franks windscreen, he spent a lot of time parked in that position. I came past and parked one afternoon when Franks truck was there but not him,he arrived later saying he was broken down and had been in town ummm shopping :wink: In the morning I repaired his truck (compressor governor valve) and we all were about to set off when Frank decided to do some more…shopping. When I arrived in Germany and rang you ( I had wine on) you asked me if I had seen Frank and not wishing to get him into trouble i replied ‘No’. Only for you to say ‘somewhat sniffily’ I heard you fixed his truck! :blush: :blush: News travels fast!!!
The last time I saw Ian Mellor was about 12/13 years ago in Whitwood truck stop,he still had the foden parked at home and was driving a support truck for a huge mobile crane
Regards Gavin

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JAWS:
Hi All

THE OLD GRAY MATTER TEST :question: :question: :question:

here are some more photos to test the Gray cells, all these photos have more on the right so scroll across :arrow_right: :arrow_right:

After the wall fell down were was this parking :unamused:

and were was this

hi all, easy one this-- germans truck stop,riminicu valcea. near the top end of the town. not the cheapest food but the best schnitzel for miles. regards Rob
And to really test you Who’s Monster Truck was this :smiling_imp: :smiling_imp: :smiling_imp:

Regards to all
:smiley: :smiley: :smiley: Ian

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Wheel Nut:

JAWS:
Hi Wheelnut

One of has the name of the Volvo wrong but I can not remember the name John gave the little DAF he had after the Volvo ■■?
I am sure we will be corrected or start a good debate

Regards
Ian

I remember him latterly with a driver on one and him driving another. The drawbar was Violet and I thought the Artic was Victoria. I dont remember what names he gave the 2500 DAF or the ERF

the erf was ERFULA. John bought the MAN for me to drive and the erf for himself, the first trip with the man it broke down continuously and i lossed all faith in it so i had the erf and john had the man to sort it out. i preferred the erf so we never swapped back.i cant remember the name of the DAF or the MAN
regards Rob

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hi there, i’ve just seen some stunning, old astran pics that i don’t believe have shown up anywhere else on the net (i could be wrong). they are on the astran facebook site, unfortunately there isn’t any info with them but i don’t think it’ll take the regulars on here to come up with something!! they are from the early days - scania vabis.

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what2do:
they are on the astran facebook site…

Cheers for that information what2do, just had a quick look, quite a few pics on there!!

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It would be good if someone with the technical ability could bring them (photos) over to this site - surely they would have more of an appreciative audience on here.

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Don’t know if that’s possible what with copyright issues etc. I did hear that any pictures posted on facebook automatically become their property!!!

Maybe someone could post a direct link but I would think you need your own FB account…or hack, sorry I mean use,someone elses like I did!!! :laughing: :laughing:

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Re. previous comment - I do not think that copyright will be an issue. There are quite a few photos on that FB page that are copies!

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A lot of those pics on facebook have been nicked off www.toprun.ch, Ferdy doesn’t like his pics appearing on here. For anyone who doesn’t know about it, there are loads of M/E pics on there, Bestbooties has a link to it at the bottom of his posts if you want a shortcut :wink:

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Sorry Guys

But we were nearly off the page and thats not suppose to happen back to the Top where we belong :smiley: :smiley: :smiley: :laughing: :laughing:

Roger

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Quite right Roger. Who is that anyway who’s doing the facebook thingy on Astran. Anyone heard of him/them?

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davemackie:
Another one for the O.G.M.T., where is this.

Dave.

that next truck looks like RJV International’s F10, usually got a kiwi driving it. regards Rob