Publicity in the 80th:
Leyland TMU in Spain.
One other fine “Buffalo” restored by “Papa Ali” transport company.
DISPATCHER:
Fergie 47
hi dave keep the heavies coming
here’s my idea of what you might have liked to pillot round europe
Excellent Chris…High roof and sun-visor, in 1960…just need “Transport Bretagne” on the sun-visor, a 29 number plate, Quimper and telephone number on the door, and I’m off… Do you remember what you were running in the '60’s… 
A few more old Heavies
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Fergie 47
Propably tiny TOT with a 4 axle Rogers Semi 8in line (trilex) or KXT with the dreaded 4 xale Eagle, ETN and AUU came
a bit later,AUU converted to artic when Monty had it with 60ton King
Cheers for the info about Nicolas Michel, much appreciated pal 
And Fergie, those heavies seem to get better all the time 
Cheers, Patrick
pv83:
Something from more…er…recent times
And no, it’s not about that orange thing in the centre but it’s about that routiers, really nice people, well worth a try if you’re around.Cheers, Patrick
Patrick…you have one big advantage over us oldies… digital cameras…you can’t imagine the pain in the arse of taking pic’s in the '60’s and 70’s…not to mention the expense…today is such a different story…keep taking as many as you can, something to look back on in years to come, so many of us wish we’d taken more…but !!!
I’ve seen some of your photos on other threads, I’m sure we’d like to see a few on here too… especially with a French theme, like the one with the Routiers in the back ground !!!
Completely agree with you Fergie. Cost me a lot for film and then developing them afterwards.
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Completely agree with you Fergie. Cost me a lot for film and then developing them afterwards.Sent from my Hol-U19 using Tapatalk
Brother Andy was more interested than me and took more overland photos. While I was doing internals in Saudi, he gave me a camera. It looked complicated to me and unfortunately I wasn’t interested. I did take some photos with it, including this Sealand / Cresent wreck near Riyadh.
And also this bus in a quarry, near Dhahran. I took a few photos of this. When I showed them round, everyone took a sharp intake of breath. There was apparently a Saudi military gun emplacement above the quarry. If they’d seen me taking photos I would have gone to prison.
I would say that these were the highlights of my photographic career. The next film jammed in the camera, I pulled the film out and of course ruined it. I left the camera in the villa and that was the end of that. It wasn’t the cost, I just couldn’t be bothered! 40 years later, I am kicking myself for not persevering, but also not keeping a diary! I have lots of memories of those days, but of course nothing like as comprehensive as M. Saviem!
Oh to have had a camera that you took out of your top pocket, pointed, and captured the moment!
John
I suspect that I and a lot of others thought that it was just too much hackle and expense to take photos of what was “just” your working environment. We never thought how much interest there would be fifty or so years down the line!
Volvo’s,… F88 and 89’s, sorry, they’re not French, they came with a batch of pic’s from the French lads…shame not to post them up…
starting with a G88…
Nostalgic B/W for the week,playing in dad’s yard…
Fab! 
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Fergie47:
pv83:
Something from more…er…recent times
And no, it’s not about that orange thing in the centre but it’s about that routiers, really nice people, well worth a try if you’re around.Cheers, Patrick
Patrick…you have one big advantage over us oldies… digital cameras…you can’t imagine the pain in the arse of taking pic’s in the '60’s and 70’s…not to mention the expense…today is such a different story…keep taking as many as you can, something to look back on in years to come, so many of us wish we’d taken more…but !!!
I’ve seen some of your photos on other threads, I’m sure we’d like to see a few on here too… especially with a French theme, like the one with the Routiers in the back ground !!!
Well, I’m not too keen on using all these modern day tech stuff, still use me old non-digital camera a lot, makes you appreciate the technical side of things more I reckon…however I must admit that it can be a blessing, having a digital camera, especially in “the heat of the moment” like
Didn’t thought though that the pics I sometimes post where that much appreciated, will do me best then to post some more
My old man’s been to some very distant places, he too wishes that he’d taken some more pics at the time, just took it for granted back then…
Right, back on topic then, I visited this routiers for a brief moment this week, just stepped in for a tea break and to have a shower, nice place, and the showers were clean and tidy, something worth mentioning in France
These two gems were in the far corner of the parking, I always had a soft spot for those little Scanny’s…was coupled to some sort of low loader, marque didn’t ring any bells though…
Cheers, Patrick
