Astran / Middle East Drivers

turps · 27 January 2013 19:47

Carlos Fandango:
I’ve not read every page so I don’t know if he’s been mentioned but can anyone remember Bryan Else? He worked for Astrans. He was from Sheffield.
I worked with him at J.G Osborne’s in the early 90’s and Newell and Wright’s of Sheffield.

hes still around and so am i mate

fly_sheet · 28 January 2013 00:51

bradfordlad9999:

any one no how this is

It looks like My old trailer Chap, I had it on Intersped IL 007 I think it was.

bradfordlad9999 · 28 January 2013 17:31

baumaschinenbilder.de/forum/ … tid=510090 any one got any info on this?

dirty_dan · 28 January 2013 18:21

Hi all! Found this when going through my dads old magasins,This is the offical scania magasin and the article was about the roads from the balticsea to Iraq.

Reg Danne

bradfordlad9999 · 28 January 2013 19:00

baumaschinenbilder.de/forum/ … tid=514196 any info on this one

bradfordlad9999 · 28 January 2013 19:17

baumaschinenbilder.de/forum/ … tid=514253 turkish syrian border

jenson · 28 January 2013 20:21

These two are Bob Carter’s (trans uk) brand new and have just been sprayed by CEL Engineering (w.carter) Woodbridge Suffolk,S reg late 70s i guess,Bob’s father and later his two brothers owned w.carter (haulage)/ CEL group.

bradfordlad9999 · 28 January 2013 21:10

baumaschinenbilder.de/forum/ … tid=554846

wheel_nut · 31 January 2013 01:41

Jenson:
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These two are Bob Carter’s (trans uk) brand new and have just been sprayed by CEL Engineering (w.carter) Woodbridge Suffolk,S reg late 70s i guess,Bob’s father and later his two brothers owned w.carter (haulage)/ CEL group.

I wondered if that was why they had fancy names, Carters, CEL named their trucks, I cant remember whether Trans UK did…

jenson · 31 January 2013 13:59

Wheel Nut:

Jenson:
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These two are Bob Carter’s (trans uk) brand new and have just been sprayed by CEL Engineering (w.carter) Woodbridge Suffolk,S reg late 70s i guess,Bob’s father and later his two brothers owned w.carter (haulage)/ CEL group.

I wondered if that was why they had fancy names, Carters, CEL named their trucks, I cant remember whether Trans UK did…

Trans uk did name there trucks as you can see on the two above.

freshir · 31 January 2013 20:38

I recently read someones post that he was experiencing difficulty updating his profile by creating an Avotar but to no avail, (Join the club mate) so being ‘self unemployed’ and having all the time in the world this prompted me to have a bash at it -So i weighed up my assets and concluded that I was reasonably fluent in English and that my M/E experience made me a very patient person, so I decided that I could pis this so I bought up the destructions on the profile page and away I went - Two days and many hours later I gave up, so you lads on here that have succeeded in creating this ‘Simple’ task’ good on ya - Regards to all - Poor old Fred

bigr250 · 31 January 2013 21:12

freshir:
I recently read someones post that he was experiencing difficulty updating his profile by creating an Avotar but to no avail, (Join the club mate) so being ‘self unemployed’ and having all the time in the world this prompted me to have a bash at it -So i weighed up my assets and concluded that I was reasonably fluent in English and that my M/E experience made me a very patient person, so I decided that I could pis this so I bought up the destructions on the profile page and away I went - Two days and many hours later I gave up, so you lads on here that have succeeded in creating this ‘Simple’ task’ good on ya - Regards to all - Poor old Fred

I’m with you completely on that score Fred, as you’ll see I have the outline of one but I ‘shrunk’ it that much it didn’t exist!!! It’s clearly an age thing with me!!!

Ross.

turps · 1 February 2013 18:23

bigr250:

freshir:
I recently read someones post that he was experiencing difficulty updating his profile by creating an Avotar but to no avail, (Join the club mate) so being ‘self unemployed’ and having all the time in the world this prompted me to have a bash at it -So i weighed up my assets and concluded that I was reasonably fluent in English and that my M/E experience made me a very patient person, so I decided that I could pis this so I bought up the destructions on the profile page and away I went - Two days and many hours later I gave up, so you lads on here that have succeeded in creating this ‘Simple’ task’ good on ya - Regards to all - Poor old Fred

I’m with you completely on that score Fred, as you’ll see I have the outline of one but I ‘shrunk’ it that much it didn’t exist!!! It’s clearly an age thing with me!!!

Ross.

just tryed it , forget it

bradfordlad9999 · 1 February 2013 19:08

turps:

bigr250:

freshir:
I recently read someones post that he was experiencing difficulty updating his profile by creating an Avotar but to no avail, (Join the club mate) so being ‘self unemployed’ and having all the time in the world this prompted me to have a bash at it -So i weighed up my assets and concluded that I was reasonably fluent in English and that my M/E experience made me a very patient person, so I decided that I could pis this so I bought up the destructions on the profile page and away I went - Two days and many hours later I gave up, so you lads on here that have succeeded in creating this ‘Simple’ task’ good on ya - Regards to all - Poor old Fred

I’m with you completely on that score Fred, as you’ll see I have the outline of one but I ‘shrunk’ it that much it didn’t exist!!! It’s clearly an age thing with me!!!

Ross.

just tryed it , forget it

its rubbish for pics on here you can up load pics on here but you cant put em on any pages

freshir · 1 February 2013 19:27

turps:

bigr250:

freshir:
I recently read someones post that he was experiencing difficulty updating his profile by creating an Avotar but to no avail, (Join the club mate) so being ‘self unemployed’ and having all the time in the world this prompted me to have a bash at it -So i weighed up my assets and concluded that I was reasonably fluent in English and that my M/E experience made me a very patient person, so I decided that I could pis this so I bought up the destructions on the profile page and away I went - Two days and many hours later I gave up, so you lads on here that have succeeded in creating this ‘Simple’ task’ good on ya - Regards to all - Poor old Fred

I’m with you completely on that score Fred, as you’ll see I have the outline of one but I ‘shrunk’ it that much it didn’t exist!!! It’s clearly an age thing with me!!!

Ross.

just tryed it , forget it

freshir wrote
I am pleased that I am not alone Ross, I cannot understand why it should be such hassle, I transfer pics to family by email very successfully and I am sure that there are many contributors on this thread who do not display an ‘Avotar’ would like to do so and like us have probably attempted and failed, I wonder if it could be simplified ? I shall keep trying when I have cooled down and have a week or so to spare. Fred

uktruckie · 19 October 2005 14:32

cola cowboys IS ON EBAY NOW -

Item number: 8343672988

Roly

david_miller · 1 February 2013 19:54

I managed to get one up there Fred of my old Pegaso but I cannot remember how I did it.Probably the same as my usual method with computers - keep trying!

Take a deep breath and have another go!

David

freshir · 1 February 2013 20:20

David Miller:
I managed to get one up there Fred of my old Pegaso but I cannot remember how I did it.Probably the same as my usual method with computers - keep trying!

Take a deep breath and have another go!

David[/quote

freshir wrote
Thanks David, Thanks for the encouragement, this thing is bloody annoying but I won’t give up - Hope you are keeping well mate regards Fred

zb_anorak · 1 February 2013 21:10

freshir:

turps:

bigr250:

freshir:
I recently read someones post that he was experiencing difficulty updating his profile by creating an Avotar but to no avail, (Join the club mate) so being ‘self unemployed’ and having all the time in the world this prompted me to have a bash at it -So i weighed up my assets and concluded that I was reasonably fluent in English and that my M/E experience made me a very patient person, so I decided that I could pis this so I bought up the destructions on the profile page and away I went - Two days and many hours later I gave up, so you lads on here that have succeeded in creating this ‘Simple’ task’ good on ya - Regards to all - Poor old Fred

I’m with you completely on that score Fred, as you’ll see I have the outline of one but I ‘shrunk’ it that much it didn’t exist!!! It’s clearly an age thing with me!!!

Ross.

just tryed it , forget it

freshir wrote
I am pleased that I am not alone Ross, I cannot understand why it should be such hassle, I transfer pics to family by email very successfully and I am sure that there are many contributors on this thread who do not display an ‘Avotar’ would like to do so and like us have probably attempted and failed, I wonder if it could be simplified ? I shall keep trying when I have cooled down and have a week or so to spare. Fred

Hi Gents, I managed this, after a bit of swearing. You can do it in “Paint”, but must take care not to:

Make it the wrong size: too big and it won’t work, too small and it will look daft.
Bugger up the resolution, so it looks fuzzy.
Skew the width/height ratio, so it looks like it is in a hall of mirrors.
Do this:
Open your pic in Paint and save it as something else, EG “My_truck_small”.
The maximum size the site allows is 80x80 pixels, so you want it as close to this size as possible. From the top menu bar in Paint, select Image then Attributes from the list below. Change the Units to pixels. It will say 640 x 400, or something like that. Divide 80 by the larger number, and multiply by 100 to give it as a percentage. In this case, the answer will be 12.5. Knock off the 0.5 to give 12, or whatever your numbers are, because Paint only accepts whole numbers.
Select Image, then Stretch/Skew from the list. Enter the percentage into both the height and width boxes. The picture will shrink. Go back into Image…Attributes again, and the size should be just under 80x80 pixels. Save the file.
Now you are ready to attack the TNUK page where you put the avatar in. Where it asks for the picture, select the option to select from your computer and click Browse. Find out where you have saved it, and click on the file to get it into the box. Job done.

freshir · 2 February 2013 08:35

[zb]
anorak:

freshir:

turps:

bigr250:

freshir:
I recently read someones post that he was experiencing difficulty updating his profile by creating an Avotar but to no avail, (Join the club mate) so being ‘self unemployed’ and having all the time in the world this prompted me to have a bash at it -So i weighed up my assets and concluded that I was reasonably fluent in English and that my M/E experience made me a very patient person, so I decided that I could pis this so I bought up the destructions on the profile page and away I went - Two days and many hours later I gave up, so you lads on here that have succeeded in creating this ‘Simple’ task’ good on ya - Regards to all - Poor old Fred

I’m with you completely on that score Fred, as you’ll see I have the outline of one but I ‘shrunk’ it that much it didn’t exist!!! It’s clearly an age thing with me!!!

Ross.

just tryed it , forget it

freshir wrote
I am pleased that I am not alone Ross, I cannot understand why it should be such hassle, I transfer pics to family by email very successfully and I am sure that there are many contributors on this thread who do not display an ‘Avotar’ would like to do so and like us have probably attempted and failed, I wonder if it could be simplified ? I shall keep trying when I have cooled down and have a week or so to spare. Fred

Hi Gents, I managed this, after a bit of swearing. You can do it in “Paint”, but must take care not to:

Make it the wrong size: too big and it won’t work, too small and it will look daft.

Bugger up the resolution, so it looks fuzzy.

Skew the width/height ratio, so it looks like it is in a hall of mirrors.
Do this:

Open your pic in Paint and save it as something else, EG “My_truck_small”.

The maximum size the site allows is 80x80 pixels, so you want it as close to this size as possible. From the top menu bar in Paint, select Image then Attributes from the list below. Change the Units to pixels. It will say 640 x 400, or something like that. Divide 80 by the larger number, and multiply by 100 to give it as a percentage. In this case, the answer will be 12.5. Knock off the 0.5 to give 12, or whatever your numbers are, because Paint only accepts whole numbers.

Select Image, then Stretch/Skew from the list. Enter the percentage into both the height and width boxes. The picture will shrink. Go back into Image…Attributes again, and the size should be just under 80x80 pixels. Save the file.

Now you are ready to attack the TNUK page where you put the avatar in. Where it asks for the picture, select the option to select from your computer and click Browse. Find out where you have saved it, and click on the file to get it into the box. Job done.

freshir wrote - Thanks for that info - watch this space