These were taken in 1981,The 1st is a tea shop outside the customs at Abugreb (long before the yanks made it a place of notoriety)The 2nd is Cizre(if you can remember where that is)The 3rd is me and Dave Ireland at Haswa customs parking(before it moved to Feluga)I can’t remember how to spell it!!!Where were you crow??
geoffthecrowtaylor:
Archie where are you now in UK or out .Did you know any of those drivers who worked for us Crow
Hullo Geoff,
At the moment mate I am in Sao Paulo in Brasil. I shall be leaving for home and arriving in London on 2nd, April. (next Monday). I sent you a request on Skype yesterday. I shall get on when I get home. I am not too sure if I knew any of your lads, although I may do, a I said I thought that one of the Hardman lads was on for you, but obviously not. Look forward to your Tony putting the photos on here.
Cheers, Archie.
chazzer i remember the old transcon i also worked for george at mondial and maurice at solent and that greedy basterd hoggie at anglo i had 2 lorries on for mondial most of gthe time for about 3 year young chris doing greece and various others doing rumo and greece i brought jasons the turks (GEORGES NO 1 SUBBIE)trucks when he went pop and did the garment job good old boy george they tell me old joe tayler is dead now he drove for mondial for 25 year i did it both ways chazzer in answer to your question overland and boat didnt john cooper buy the old transcon of ratty toad of toad hall he called it lol i worked for allports as well and groupex at rainham they got took over by dfds and chris rose rospedition at rainham there was plenty of work then. do you know paul grimshaw from brackley he has a few lorries moving race and rally cars he just brought some of the red bull mans i buy a few from him all ex small teams but good gear george at mondial has the old arrows dafs they were months old when arrows went pop he nicked them close knit community them racing lads but they gota sell the trucks some were to me hopefully lol
Keith the thief youre right mate Cooperman did have that ■■■■■■ and it was called Toad hall Lindsey Speak also pulled for George and Steve Partridge worked for George .Partridge lives in Cyprus near Limmasol and has done for the last 20 years. I was out there last summer and had a good few pints with him. regards the Crow
Tony youve got a lot more photos get em on here .I havent got any out here I gave all mine to our Paul last ti9me i was i9n UK and the lazy git still hasnt put em on here .As to where was I christ knows probably lost in Outer Mongolia, good luck with the new teeth your bruv the Crow.
Mushroomman re the photos Tony has put on 145 where he is off the road at Tekirdag I was 1 day in front of him and missed all that snow. It was the same trip that I brought back that Scania of Middle East Minerals I too had taken 6 stripped down MF tractors on that stepframe.Believe it or not all that snow had gone 2 days later.Asfor you tony of course i n
know where Cizre is will we ever forget its about 60 ks from Zhako and on bad trips the bleeding border queue started not far past there regards Crow
geoffthecrowtaylor:
Keith the thief youre right mate Cooperman did have that ■■■■■■ and it was called Toad hall Lindsey Speak also pulled for George and Steve Partridge worked for George .Partridge lives in Cyprus near Limmasol and has done for the last 20 years. I was out there last summer and had a good few pints with him. regards the Crow
Toad Hall Mr Crow
They say those were the good old days,there was nothing good about Greek diesel in those days.My last pair of fuel filters,I think this is the only way to get some of the wax out of them.I was half way to Belgrade from Gevgellia.Aahh well the joys of motoring.What do you think Mr Crow.
Just for you Geoff,three of our trucks on the French side of the Mont Blanc Tunnel,The little girl is our Julie,she’s a big girl now,don’t time fly by, she’s 40 this year.The drivers are Pete Hollic and Tony Bowden.The other is your pride and joy the new 4006.
Cooperman actually got his name on his transcon in this pic 
Keith the thief, I’m going to post on the Anglo Greek thread before I get accused of hijacking this one with no M/E stuff.
Chazer i seem to think that when cooperman had Toad hall it was painted dark blue and despite its Southend reg HJ it wouldnt pull your ■■■■■■■■ back stay lucky mate Crow
Bloody ell Tony i d forgotten that we d painted 132 in Dawnyards colors the other was Evd 930k the one you wrapped up in Jugo evd was an f88 132 was anf89 christ this is like dads army or all our yesterdays did we really do all that Crow.ican also see Peter the Plater Mick Eckersley and where youre troffing looks the fruit machine atRastatte Herleshausen where Tony Meddings and his shiftless employer Charlie Leadham Priors wasted what was left of their nrunning money playing the bandit. I could just eat a Jagerschitznel right now get more pics on Crow and thats me in between 132 and UNF so young so long ago where did all the good times go. That looks like the Ingolstadt to Brenner train to me Flysheet can you speak French yet or are you mjust giving lessons be lucky boy CROW
Hi Geoff, I can remember you cooking your filters, might have been the same ones.
Photo’s: John Ellis, Mick Eckersley, Alec Downie, Jamie, Dai Blunt.
Will have another look in the morning.
Dave.
Hi Geoff, recognize any body in this photo.
Dave.