Loose-wire:
Hi All
I have a couple of pics from the late Tony Soameson’s funeral will post asap ,a good turn out Tony was a popular chap ,I estimate over 100 freinds turned out to wish Tony fairwell, Kevin and Jan from Astrans,Jeff Woods the shunt driver,Alison Moss,John Frost ,John Haffenden,
Dave Poulton,Roger Haywood,Gordon Pierce,Peter Cannon,plus many more from Tony’s other interests including Motor racing and classic cars his freinds from his resturant and of course his love of sailing ,the list is getting smaller and smaller but thats life as time goes by ,R.I.P Tony
Loose Wire, dont forget the marvelous and humourous eulogy by that famous writer Sir Ashley Coghill!! A good turnout for another great character!
Loose-wire:
Hi All
I have a couple of pics from the late Tony Soameson’s funeral will post asap ,a good turn out Tony was a popular chap ,I estimate over 100 freinds turned out to wish Tony fairwell, Kevin and Jan from Astrans,Jeff Woods the shunt driver,Alison Moss,John Frost ,John Haffenden,
Dave Poulton,Roger Haywood,Gordon Pierce,Peter Cannon,plus many more from Tony’s other interests including Motor racing and classic cars his freinds from his resturant and of course his love of sailing ,the list is getting smaller and smaller but thats life as time goes by ,R.I.P Tony
Loose Wire, dont forget the marvelous and humourous eulogy by that famous writer Sir Ashley Coghill!! A good turnout for another great character!
Why thank you kind sir! It was a lovely funeral, light hearted which is just what Tony wanted. Maureen (his widow) asked me to keep it that way with my speech and it seemed everyone who attended was in that frame of mind. Wake afterwards was really lovely with very tasty food and drink! RIP “fingers”.
keith the thief:
WELL LADS IM BACK firstly if your offended by missing full stops and capital letters dont read my driving is better than my writing to them lads who want to know how the trip went hear goes as you know the trailer was held for 10 days by customs but released in the end nothing wrong they said still had to pay £680 to dover harbour board proper liberty any way gets rolling thru france and italy and arrives in ancona to meet the lads gary lyons young phil daz nick bull wayne skinner john boy carrot and hamma our bahrain friend he was taking a stack of trailers down they had all loaded valves in italy for dammam we shipped on various boats and made our own ways to turkey i was told by astrans that because of the value i must not go via syria the others planned to. well about aksoray i heard on the world service that the turk syrian border had been over run by terrorists we now know because of u tube it was al quida 31 border guards dead and all the turk trucks burned and destroyed so it was straight to mersin phil had phoned and booked us in advance but all this did was get us in the gate of the port by this time every truck in turkey was trying the same route so very bizzy in the morning we tried to book 2 weeks they told us lol of to the gondol hotel for a sleep it was saturday then we got the ferry not the next thursday but the one after we have an arangement now where we can book and pay in advance saving the 2 weeks but we had to go there to sort this the first time to skip on we loaded about 5am it was very hot the boat was a night mare cabin temps of 34 all night unsleepeable after 60 hours of bobing along at 10 to 12 knots we hit port sied we had to wait half a day for 6 big container ships to exit the suez canal so we could use the shipping lane to enter port getting of by 6 pm it was then we learned that terorists had killed 20 egyptian border guards in th siannai desert very close to were we were so no convoy the next day to unstabled they said the day after we crossed egypt in convoy plenty of police cars and army trucks with us all armed 350 km later we hit port suez now lads if you want me to go on let me know but im knackered now and all this writing is stressing me so il finnish tommorow if you want
how do we get on this job ive got left ■■■■■■ waiting
Bradford Lad, perhaps you should have thought about leaving slanderous comments on You Tube if you wanted a start on Astrans! You`ve got no chance!!
I cant remember which thread i saw the pictures on, but does anyone know what became of the High roof V8 mandator which was in Turkey,it was a G reg i think the company had 2
Looking at the pics on 166 and the Swedish Scania with the bumper pulled off if you back track to 145 you ll see that exactly the same happened to our Tony in Turkey ,he was rcovered by a Turkish army tank the driver of which used his brains and put a chain thru the front spring hangers and ergo back on the road. Where he got the tank from I know not ,maybe he had more influence than I gave himcredit for. Regards Crow.
geoffthecrowtaylor:
Looking at the pics on 166 and the Swedish Scania with the bumper pulled off if you back track to 145 you ll see that exactly the same happened to our Tony in Turkey ,he was rcovered by a Turkish army tank the driver of which used his brains and put a chain thru the front spring hangers and ergo back on the road. Where he got the tank from I know not ,maybe he had more influence than I gave himcredit for. Regards Crow.
Me and Roy Tatlock had been there all night,after the grader had pulled the bumper off.During the small hours two brits on their way home came over the hill,I can’t remember who they were now.The one in front saw my headlights and tried to stop,the wheels locked up on the ice and he jack-knifed and squashed the air-intake stack.We just unbolted it,threw it into the empty trailer and they went on their merry way.The Police had been round several times in the night wingeing about ‘you can’t park here’,Marlboro sorted that out.In the morning the police came back with a Turkish army officer who looked at the situation and said he would return with a winch.Later in the morning the winch arrived and the officer asked for money.I truthfully told him I was skint except for about 25 quid.OK I’ll take that he said (he could speak English).They hooked the winch up to the front axel and he put the claws down but as there was nowhere to anchor the machine to at front,despite the rear claws digging into the asphalt all he did was winch himself into me.I asked for my money back because they hadn’t completed the job.The officer said ‘well we tried’.‘Not good enough’ I complained.I pointed out to him that if my truck was a valuable piece of equipment and the enemy was advancing he would lose that equipment and all because they couldn’t get it out of the ditch.It must have wounded his pride because he left in a huff saying ‘I’ll be back’.2 hours later a tank came clanking over the hill with a full crew.The tank commander asked me for money,I told him (through the other officer) that I was skint.He said ‘well in that case we are not going to help you’.I just said get the 25 quid off the him(the other officer.)It didn’t work and after a lot of debate and haggle we agreed that I would pay him on the way back from Istanbul.They hooked up the tank with a chain to the spring hangers and pulled me out as easy as plucking an apple off a tree.The rest as they say is history.
Whilst you ve added a bit of military action to this thread Tony and to introduce a bit of levity and as you live in Holland go to youtube punch in Andre Prieu Alten Kameraden Maastrict 2009 its a rousing German military march nothing to do with this site but if you look carefully towards the end of the show you will see a bar advertising Crow Bier. I did nt know I d opened a brewery in Holland must check that out ,there s also lots of pretty girls and if you dial up Andre Prieu live at Maastricht you ll see people relly enjoying thereselves not a shaven headed ponce in sight , go on give your self and any one else interested a treat, you know it makes sense ,although the music may not to every ones taste I thoroly enjoyed it ,cheers Crow.
geoffthecrowtaylor:
Whilst you ve added a bit of military action to this thread Tony and to introduce a bit of levity and as you live in Holland go to youtube punch in Andre Prieu Alten Kameraden Maastrict 2009 its a rousing German military march nothing to do with this site but if you look carefully towards the end of the show you will see a bar advertising Crow Bier. I did nt know I d opened a brewery in Holland must check that out ,there s also lots of pretty girls and if you dial up Andre Prieu live at Maastricht you ll see people relly enjoying thereselves not a shaven headed ponce in sight , go on give your self and any one else interested a treat, you know it makes sense ,although the music may not to every ones taste I thoroly enjoyed it ,cheers Crow.
Geoffrey,my brother,I have been to see Andre Rieu a few times,Galina really likes him.As for the Crow beer bruv,sorry to disappoint you (go to specsavers),that bar says Leeuw Bier,which in Dutch means Lion Beer.I like the music though.
Yes you re right Tony but as the video is not very clear at first it looks like Crow, any wayit s got you and me away from Gardner engines and I wonder how that very pretty girl over Andre s left shoulder would have got on with an 18 speed Fuller.Imean right shoulder.Am off to the Crusty Crab now catch you later.Another mistake its Rieu not Prieu.
geoffthecrowtaylor:
Yes you re right Tony but as the video is not very clear at first it looks like Crow, any wayit s got you and me away from Gardner engines and I wonder how that very pretty girl over Andre s left shoulder would have got on with an 18 speed Fuller.
wow what a world we live in. I’ve read more family history in this Internet thread than via actually talking to my own dad (Crow) and uncle (TonyTaylor) over my 43 years!
GERRY MAC:
are you the tony used to park at the log cabin a lot i worked for roy bradford from 85 till 2001
I don’t know if I am the Tony you mean Gerry Mac,but I did park at the log cabin at Santhia many times,It was a toss up either there or Carisio.My picture is on The thread Trucknet aka’s,on page 1,but bear in mind I am 65 years old in that picture so I may have changed a little bit.Why not put yours on the same thread and maybe I will recognise you!!
Hi Guys
@ Tony
I think Gerry means the log cabin just before Prague.
@ Gerry
Hi Gerry, how"s it going ? what are you upto these days ■■
Best regards
Gavin
GS OVERLAND
GS OVERLAND:
Hi Guys
@ Tony
I think Gerry means the log cabin just before Prague.
@ Gerry
Hi Gerry, how"s it going ? what are you upto these days ■■
Best regards
Gavin
GS OVERLAND
Hullo GS Overland,
Gavin you mentioning Prague, I was there a few weeks ago and I wanted a photo of that low bridge that we all had to get under. I walked for ages trying to fathom out where it is. They must have demolished it, as the whole place is a maze of new roads, overpasses, underpasses, it’s a maze. I can remember we used to come South on that inner ring road ,then after getting under the bridge, just a bit further on turning left and going sort of back on yourself a bit before going up to join the Motorway. I searched and searched, I asked people, I tried to work it out on the Tourist map of the city all to no avail. I remember there was a Station off to the right as you got there. So in the end I gave it up as a bad job. Nothing to do with the Log Cabin I know. Sorry
Cheers, Archie.
I found the reference to the bridge in Prague interesting and also that there were no signs in the mid 70’s for TIR veh’s and on one occasion when I was getting a visa at the Czech Embassy in Bayswater road and as many of you may remember the elderly lady on the counter spoke perfect English so I raised a point about there being no thru: route signs in the city and adding that the low tram lines were of great concern and soon after that a few TIR signs started to appear ie yellow on blue
and I still wonder to this day if my comments prompted these signs (Could this be my claim to fame? ) Regards Fred
