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His wife Pat (Stirling Moss’s sister) could show Erik a thing or two about rally driving, she could make 'em go a bit. 
I’m going to have to appoint you as the Bewick archivist so long as you don’t want paying ! 
They keep popping up on FB Dennis The only reason i go on FB is to see what gems get posted, it’s amazing what photos keep emerging from some collections.
Apart from the two Scanias and Tautliners I took all the others myself ! There are some sad people about who just thieve the shots and probably try to sell them to other sad individuals ! But no doubt there are many shots out there of the Bewick fleet that I didn’t take which I am always interested to look at and maybe pass on some spiel about them ! Cheers Dennis.
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That’s why i post them here just in case you haven’t seen them before
Another odd looking bussing scania Turkish mashup
And a volvo shot with a fabulous concorde in shot.
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Presumably Scania weren’t over happy about the 110 cab being used (?). MAN / Bussing in Turkey was known as MAN-AS. They ended up with this local cab:
I took that picture in Istanbul near the Harem TIR-parking.
They later acquired this cab:
(I didn’t take that pic ^^)
There was even a Hatcher type high conversion:
(I didn’t take that one ^^^ either)
But I did take this one somewhere down near Iskenderun. It shows both styles of cab.
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I remember these pictures from when you kindly shared the history of your company on the old site. A very informative read it was as well. As you say its a shame people see fit to try to profit from others work.
What was the storey behind the Iveco Dennis?
Throughout most of the 80s I lived in or around SW London, including a few years in Chertsey (near “unsightly Staines”) and despite being a few miles away from LHR, you hear the thing and even feel it. One of the best memories is one evening in a lorry on the M25 heading south passing the M4 interchange and watching this amazing thing do its take-off party trick - lights on, full re-heat, the works. Tis a royal shame we don’t make things like Concorde any more.
[edit - this is reminiscent:
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I have been on Concorde.
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Yeah, OK, the grounded one at Yeovilton.
I have a memory of an airshow at Bournemouth, Hurn Airport. A Concorde en-rte to the US did a low-ish level pass. The days of passenger flights doing such have long ended though, I’m pretty sure.
It was loud.
Brands Hatch 1986 F1 Lancaster bomber then Concorde flew over low level amazing sound, then to top it all the Vulcan bomber came over low and right over the grandstand Paddock hill just pulled up into the sky to say the ground shook is an understatement, the most incredible sound i have ever witnessed!!
It once landed at Leeds Bradford on that short runway many years ago. I could never understand why they wouldn’t let Richard Branson take them .Why didn’t they build some more??
In a nutshell: safety and cost.
Every so often I had to deliver kerosene dye (yes) to the ESSO terminal next to Heathrow, when that Concorde thing ‘open the taps’ for take off …nobody slept.
A truly magnificent sight and sound.
AND (just my opinion) if Boeing had made it the worlds airlines would still be using it
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I’m sure you know this, but what’s the connection btw the Vulcan and Concorde?