jimbo im ■■■■■ on a computer but my mate newmercman is gona put a picture on soon it was on french plates when i brought it but was supplied from switzerland and sold as a kenworth even had a kenworth makers plate good tool though cat 3406 attac rt9513 fuller with oil cooler rad in the front and oil pump on the box to circulate the gear oil i run a 500 143 at the time the foden run rings round it on the hills and good on squirt as well believe it or not twin air seats both heated a/c lot of spec for then
Jimbo, here’s one of the plastic pig 
If you want more pictures for your renovation, try toprun.ch it has a ton of Friederici pictures on there and they were big Foden/Kenworth users 
Right, now some M/E pics 
The pictures are all from Keith the Thief
This one shows the exit for the Sinai Desert in Eygypt
Saudi Arabia isn’t all flat, these are the mountains near the Holy Cities of Mecca and Medina, non Muslims have to use a different road than Muslims
There’s plenty of trade between Egypt and Saudi, this Merc is loaded with Egyptian Onions, all handball too, must be fun in that heat.
This mob only do a 60km trip from Doha, yet they keep bending them, so we keep bringing new stuff to bend
Another big hill in Saudi
Looking at the sun, I worked out if I went on this tangent…In memory of JW
Captured at the border between the UAE and Saudi Arabia, look closely at the coils, the xray machine wasn’t fooled.
One of the fabled desert wrecks, not a Ferrari though.
Not the tourist part of Egypt.
1960s Maggie Deutz giving it some 
My entry for where was I 
Come on Loose Wire, you must know 
111 graveyard near Port Said
These too had the right hump 
The Actros that went down next to a brand new TG MAN written off in Qatar, replacement on its way down soon
Dutch 113 now working hard in Egypt
A sign few of the old timers will have seen 
No ADR on this Egyptian fuel tanker
Delivering in Al Ain, 6kms from Oman border.
Bit warm today 
On the way up to deliver the lorry to Qatar, turned around and facing the wrong way so that this photo could be taken
What [zb]ing speed limiter
In the Red Sea port at the top of Saudi
You can still see the trailer number plate on the front wing, anyone on here drive it Nice bit of roping
Loads more to come, but you can have these for now
I’ve always followed this thread avidly because, like so many others, it was my dream to do the Middle East but, like so many others, I never did… The stories are so interesting and very evocative but the photo’s bring it all to life…
Brilliant pics! Thanks Keith and NMM
newmercman:
Right, now some M/E picsThe pictures are all from Keith the Thief
This one shows the exit for the Sinai Desert in Eygypt
Saudi Arabia isn’t all flat, these are the mountains near the Holy Cities of Mecca and Medina, non Muslims have to use a different road than Muslims
There’s plenty of trade between Egypt and Saudi, this Merc is loaded with Egyptian Onions, all handball too, must be fun in that heat.
This mob only do a 60km trip from Doha, yet they keep bending them, so we keep bringing new stuff to bend
Another big hill in Saudi
Looking at the sun, I worked out if I went on this tangent…In memory of JW
Captured at the border between the UAE and Saudi Arabia, look closely at the coils, the xray machine wasn’t fooled.
One of the fabled desert wrecks, not a Ferrari though.
Not the tourist part of Egypt.
1960s Maggie Deutz giving it some
My entry for where was I
111 graveyard near Port Said
These too had the right hump
The Actros that went down next to a brand new TG MAN written off in Qatar, replacement on its way down soon
Dutch 113 now working hard in Egypt
A sign few of the old timers will have seen
No ADR on this Egyptian fuel tanker
Delivering in Al Ain, 6kms from Oman border.
Bit warm today
On the way up to deliver the lorry to Qatar, turned around and facing the wrong way so that this photo could be taken
What [zb]ing speed limiter
In the Red Sea port at the top of Saudi
You can still see the trailer number plate on the front wing, anyone on here drive it
Loads more to come, but you can have these for now
Freshir wrote - Definativly worth a mention Keith, absolutely brilliant pic’s well done mate regards Fred
Piston broke:
I’ve always followed this thread avidly because, like so many others, it was my dream to do the Middle East but, like so many others, I never did… The stories are so interesting and very evocative but the photo’s bring it all to life…Brilliant pics! Thanks Keith and NMM
The Welcome to Qatar picture is brilliant, it really does show what it is all about 
Excellent pics Keith makes me wish that we had taken more, I never was much of a snapper but our Tony was and we do have some pics of OOG983G on its way to Izmir when our Paul decides to put em on. Glad you all made it back ok regards Crow.
Some nice pics Keith ,but after 30plus years dont expect drivers will know exactly where you are at a given point ,things change remember the Saudi motto, Saudi Arabia Land of progress,as they dropped the container with all the Saudi princes whisky ,my little kodak didnt take great pics ,and signs where a bit small then ,normaly painted on a plank of wood with an 
,but still nice pics glad u got home safe,even if you do keep attacking me but i just and 
if only you knew
Hello Keith, I drove that Merc T414 back in 2008 when I was working for FOM ( Formula One Management) Bernie Ecclestones company. It was one of about 30 originally which was cut back to about 15 when he reduced the size of the tv village as it was known and kept the rest to pull stepframe flats with cargo pallets containing the equipment to broadcast the F1 coverage we see today, they were all fairly gutless, and the gearboxes used to find neutral on occasion when changing down on a hill but they were all in immaculate condition with mileage at the time around 160000 kms, not bad for a 9 year old truck. They’ve now been replaced this year by the latest spec Actros’s with all the goodies on them so give it another ten years and there’ll be some more bargains to snap up.
Chazzer.
Great pics by the way I’ll facebook the one of T414 so that the lads who are still on there can see where its ended up if thats all right…
Great pictures Keith and thanks to Newmercman for putting them on.
didn’t realise as malcolm’s ran any left hookers
Hi Steve, I believe the sticker says “Peace and friendship with the Arabic Nation”…
Now, I am going to leave this open as to the origins of the sticker, I certainly don’t think it is the UK or the USA
mushroomman:
It’s great to see The Red Desert Fox posting on here againRegards Steve.
malcolm never run left hookers you nutter lol not a lot of call when you run from harlow to mortlake 3 times a day they are all converted in zarka jordan nearly every truck we see was english converted they do the actros for about $3000 the actros i took was indeed f1 promotions and when i got to qatar it had 172000km from new its sold all ready 20 of em went to van vliet trucks in rotherdam they sold in 2 days the asking price was 22500 euro they all sold to 1 customer from irac mp1 actros is king make no mistakes all my mates are taking volvo to bahrain but il stick to the actros aslong as i can keep finding em there is still 2 more actros about in a small transport co who specialises in race cars he has 2 ex honda dafs and 2 red bull mans as well do you know who chazzer■■? if you do not on hear mate lol he has promised me the 2 actros i brought an fh16 and fh 12 last year of the same fella ex bmw sauber mint trucks graham is still running the fh12 now in bahrain and thanks to new merc man for posting the pictures for me i can rebuild a vt2400 12 speed volvo box with me eyes closed but get a picture on truck net no way lol
and yes chazzer cos its all right mate
MaggieD:
Hi,
We had our annual bash yesterday of old Southampton area International drivers and this Ex Astrans driver came, hadn’t seen him for 30 years !
Anyone recognise him ?
Regards
Richard
Who is it then?
SheepLady:
MaggieD:
Hi,
We had our annual bash yesterday of old Southampton area International drivers and this Ex Astrans driver came, hadn’t seen him for 30 years !
Anyone recognise him ?
Regards
Richard
Who is it then?
Hi Alison,
It’s Graham Wainwright, an early driver started just after Gordon, still going strong.
Regards
Richard
Loose-wire:
Some nice pics Keith ,but after 30plus years dont expect drivers will know exactly where you are at a given point ,things change remember the Saudi motto, Saudi Arabia Land of progress,as they dropped the container with all the Saudi princes whisky ,my little kodak didnt take great pics ,and signs where a bit small then ,normaly painted on a plank of wood with an
i never attack any one sir you started it with your snide comments but there you go him who laughs last laughs longest
keith the thief:
malcolm never run left hookers you nutter lol not a lot of call when you run from harlow to mortlake 3 times a day they are all converted in zarka jordan nearly every truck we see was english converted they do the actros for about $3000 the actros i took was indeed f1 promotions and when i got to qatar it had 172000km from new its sold all ready 20 of em went to van vliet trucks in rotherdam they sold in 2 days the asking price was 22500 euro they all sold to 1 customer from irac mp1 actros is king make no mistakes all my mates are taking volvo to bahrain but il stick to the actros aslong as i can keep finding em there is still 2 more actros about in a small transport co who specialises in race cars he has 2 ex honda dafs and 2 red bull mans as well do you know who chazzer■■? if you do not on hear mate lol he has promised me the 2 actros i brought an fh16 and fh 12 last year of the same fella ex bmw sauber mint trucks graham is still running the fh12 now in bahrain and thanks to new merc man for posting the pictures for me i can rebuild a vt2400 12 speed volvo box with me eyes closed but get a picture on truck net no way lol
yeh i wondered if they’d been converted
keith the thief:
Loose-wire:
Some nice pics Keith ,but after 30plus years dont expect drivers will know exactly where you are at a given point ,things change remember the Saudi motto, Saudi Arabia Land of progress,as they dropped the container with all the Saudi princes whisky ,my little kodak didnt take great pics ,and signs where a bit small then ,normaly painted on a plank of wood with ani never attack any one sir you started it with your snide comments but there you go him who laughs last laughs longest
Or they don’t get the joke
Browsing through this site, baumaschinenbilder.de/forum/ … =0&page=70, I found this, which may be of interest to former Astran men:
Read the comments on the site!
(Apologies if it has been posted before).