Top stuff again Bubbs.
That BOCM Silcocks wagon just about gave me a heart attack remembering what they used to be like - 20 ton handballs of carbon black, fights with the shop stewards about getting another man up on the trailer, coming out looking like a miner. Happy days?
Great pics of the Ford Ds too - some of them could really fly. Anyone remember Romeo Transport London - big Ford Ds, horrible maroon and lemon colour scheme, but they went like s**t off a shovel. Got a feeling the drivers were never short of imagination when it came to logbooks as well…
THE F12 OF KEPSTOWES WE WENT OVERLAND TO AFGHANISTAN IN NOV 07 WITH A TRIAXLE TIPPER LOADED WITH MERC SPARES ,BUT IT DIDNT HAVE THE SAME PLATE , SHE WAS SOLD BY ANOTHER DEALER CANT REMEMBER WHO EXACTLY.
toureg123:
THE F12 OF KEPSTOWES WE WENT OVERLAND TO AFGHANISTAN IN NOV 07 WITH A TRIAXLE TIPPER LOADED WITH MERC SPARES ,BUT IT DIDNT HAVE THE SAME PLATE , SHE WAS SOLD BY ANOTHER DEALER CANT REMEMBER WHO EXACTLY.
You drove it overland to Afghanistan a year and a half ago■■?
How on earth did you manage that then, which way did you go and where abouts in Afgahnistahn did you go to??
Did you drive it back or sell / scrap it? Must have been some well dodgy journey!!
tribsa:
Hi All
jj 72
Peter Davis has a6 wheel F89 pic of Armstrongs
Hope this is of use.
is it in one of his books, or do you know how/where i could get a copy please? i have the one being sold by articulationpix taken on jubilee way - is that the one? thanks
sorry to clutter up the (ever brilliant) thread, i seem to remember Robert Armstrongs featuring in Truck or T&D with an F7 tanker collecting wine around France - can anyone tell me what issue or even year it was please?
We went via Turkey to Bazargan then down Iran to Dogurun which is border to Afghanistan just before Islam Quala , left trucks in customs and bus back to Dogabyzit Turkey then fly to Istambul then home 18 days all in.Have some pictures of another trip but havent figured out how to load em .
toureg123:
We went via Turkey to Bazargan then down Iran to Dogurun which is border to Afghanistan just before Islam Quala , left trucks in customs and bus back to Dogabyzit Turkey then fly to Istambul then home 18 days all in.Have some pictures of another trip but havent figured out how to load em .
some pictures of an overland to aghanistan , old malc pulled over to the side of the road and it gave way ,nearly lost the lot , truck was lifted out a few hours later for a fee 400 euro!!! this was past Ezurum on the way to Gurbalak.
jj72:
bubb you’re just TOO good and an a-one as a bonus - made my day mate, many thanks
if your interested in a one pm me your address and i will send you an old truck mag with a big article of them in.
thanks for the offer JD, i’ve got all of truck from 74 to the end, i even lent 3 very old issues to the editor for their last ever edition cos THEY didn’t have them i have the one on a-one thanks, just if anyone could give me a definite year for the Robert Armstrong article I can head into the garage with miner’s headlamp and spider bat
jj72:
bubb you’re just TOO good and an a-one as a bonus - made my day mate, many thanks
if your interested in a one pm me your address and i will send you an old truck mag with a big article of them in.
thanks for the offer JD, i’ve got all of truck from 74 to the end, i even lent 3 very old issues to the editor for their last ever edition cos THEY didn’t have them i have the one on a-one thanks, just if anyone could give me a definite year for the Robert Armstrong article I can head into the garage with miner’s headlamp and spider bat
I don’t suppose you have any with any features on old Tarmac lorries from the seventies ?
jj72:
bubb you’re just TOO good and an a-one as a bonus - made my day mate, many thanks
if your interested in a one pm me your address and i will send you an old truck mag with a big article of them in.
thanks for the offer JD, i’ve got all of truck from 74 to the end, i even lent 3 very old issues to the editor for their last ever edition cos THEY didn’t have them i have the one on a-one thanks, just if anyone could give me a definite year for the Robert Armstrong article I can head into the garage with miner’s headlamp and spider bat
jj72… whats the chances of finding an article about a US firm called Poole Truckline from Evergreen Alabama, it ran over 3 issues in 1977 or 78, they ran Green and White Transtars. not trying to hijack the thread here bubs, just that jj said he had all issuses.
