hutpik:
Hi all.Bloody hell Harry that was a bolt from the blue,the name Euroking Brightlingsea.I done my first international trip for them in 71 with an F88 and a tri-axle supercube trlr[it looked as big as my house to me then].I had 3 drops Italy,1 Novara,2x Milan with a TIR carnet.Reloaded fridges out of Concorezzo.The trip took me 15 days and i thought i’d done well. Strange wehn you think not many years later we were doing Tehran and back in 4 weeks
I think I did a coupla trips for Beer Bros & jacked in? funny little firm .I think they made their money from the the return load fridges but when the rate cutters came along they folded. They came round my flat for the keys & a short while later Oggy came round my flat pleading with me to do a trip to Athens for him.Like a dope I became his first driver…did a trip to Athens,reloaded for Rotterdam ,changed trailers at Den Haag for Athens ,broke down for a week in sub-zero Lubiana ,just scraped home for Xmas & the D still short changed me on wages!
tap driver:
is the londra camping in istanbul still open .anyone know
Hi,
Yes it is still open as a karting track. There are lots of images on toprun,it looks a lot different to the days in the 60’s and 70’s.
Regards Andrew.
adr:
She got the M/E look, can’t make out the reg’ plates whether British or not? Scania sun-visor & roof-spoiler! Anyone recognise?
Regards Chris
: Astran / Middle East Drivers.
by geoffthecrowtaylor » Sun Mar 25, 2012 10:00 pm
you never know fly sheet it could even be one of Dow freights they ran a few Transcons even blown up cant read the reg but but that wasnt unusual for DOW
Hello lads, been away overseas for the last month and I was beginning to think that this fine thread had been deleted however after a bit of digging in the sand I managed to find it on page four .
Some very interesting comments from The Crow one or two which were a bit confusing so they may take a couple of days to reread and if I may be allowed to add my two Drachmas of waffle over the next couple of days then I shall.
For a start it’s good to know that Roger is still around although I was under the impression that his first appearance in a film was called Steamboat Willy with that well known character Mickey somebody (not Chinnock) the inventer of the substitute Yugoslave permit.
Come on Crow, I thought that an Eagle eyed bird of prey like yourself would of spotted the orange beacon on the roof of that Greek Transcon, you must of seen quite a few of them when you were night flying near Thessalonica and over the hills towards Drama .
I can assure you (well I think I can) that all Dows Transcons were taxed and displayed a current and sometimes even a not so current U.K. road tax disc even though they were not in the U.K. for many months of the year, as they competed with their Continental Cousins on the level playing fields of Europe and beyond .
Europort, Rotterdam on a Sunday morning in May 1980.
geoffthecrowtaylor:
Best Booties aka Ian Taylor remember you well mate helped you change trailer wheel studs at Londra camping once also bought a load of f89 bits off you at Stoke our original name was Metro freight Bury later changed to Eastern European Freight and finally Taylor bros Rossendale our colors were always blue and white except one f88 which was in dawnyards dark blue and yellow .Dawnyard which was run by Keith Rayner was the successor to Ski International and Arabian Freight he operated from Bury and later formed TIF he died several years ago . Incidentally my first trip was in 1976 to Craiova for Dawnyard in a1968 g reg ex Sammy Williams non sleeper Scania followed by several more to Romania and then in 1977 2 trips to Izmir all in the same truck which belonged to us and so you can say the saga had really begun best regards Ian Crow
Ay up Crow, somebody mentioned on here a few years back about an Arabian Freight truck that used to to be parked up in Manchester and nobody on here at the time knew anything about it. The nearest that we could come up with was Trans Arabian Freight that had some connection with Knights of Old. I have heard of the name of Keith Rayner from way back but I didn’t realise that Keith was connected with Ski International.
When I first joined Trucknet, Truckerash contacted me and we swopped a few P.M.'s, I asked him had he any photos in that amazing collection of his of Blue Dart European, Ski International and Dromedary Freight. Well, he had no photos of the first request, he had never heard of the second one but being the magician that he is he sent me a couple of photos of a Dromedary Freight Foden that ended up on their fleet when Dromedary finished, in fact he might of even driven it. I remember seeing it on a couple of occasions, once at The Mocamp in Istanbul and it was one of those motors that if you were like me you saw it once and you could not forget it. Hopefully Ashley will read this and post the photo on his Ancient Brits thread.
As for Ski International, I am sure that Lennie Frost drove for them before he joined Dow Freight as I remember him telling me an unusual story of when he delivered several generators for Ski International to Rumania which I might share with you one day.
geoffthecrowtaylor:
Best Booties aka Ian Taylor remember you well mate helped you change trailer wheel studs at Londra camping once also bought a load of f89 bits off you at Stoke our original name was Metro freight Bury later changed to Eastern European Freight and finally Taylor bros Rossendale our colors were always blue and white except one f88 which was in dawnyards dark blue and yellow .Dawnyard which was run by Keith Rayner was the successor to Ski International and Arabian Freight he operated from Bury and later formed TIF he died several years ago . Incidentally my first trip was in 1976 to Craiova for Dawnyard in a1968 g reg ex Sammy Williams non sleeper Scania followed by several more to Romania and then in 1977 2 trips to Izmir all in the same truck which belonged to us and so you can say the saga had really begun best regards Ian Crow
Ay up Crow, somebody mentioned on here a few years back about an Arabian Freight truck that used to to be parked up in Manchester and nobody on here at the time knew anything about it. The nearest that we could come up with was Trans Arabian Freight that had some connection with Knights of Old. I have heard of the name of Keith Rayner from way back but I didn’t realise that Keith was connected with Ski International.
When I first joined Trucknet, Truckerash contacted me and we swopped a few P.M.'s, I asked him had he any photos in that amazing collection of his of Blue Dart European, Ski International and Dromedary Freight. Well, he had no photos of the first request, he had never heard of the second one but being the magician that he is he sent me a couple of photos of a Dromedary Freight Foden that ended up on their fleet when Dromedary finished, in fact he might of even driven it. I remember seeing it on a couple of occasions, once at The Mocamp in Istanbul and it was one of those motors that if you were like me you saw it once and you could not forget it. Hopefully Ashley will read this and post the photo on his Ancient Brits thread.
As for Ski International, I am sure that Lennie Frost drove for them before he joined Dow Freight as I remember him telling me an unusual story of when he delivered several generators for Ski International to Rumania which I might share with you one day.
Regards Steve.
Ashley has probably got the hump
Bob Westwell Chorley and Colin Johnson both drove for T-A-F, maybe they parked them in Manchester
Wheelnut and Mushroomman Ski and Arabian Freight not TAF both operated from Trafford Park Manchester up until about 1977 when SKI closed Arabian Freight moved to Stoneclough nr Farnworth for about a year and then like so many others disappeared into the sunset. Lenny Frost aka the Admiral or the Maggot did drive for SKI and later Dawnyard he finished up at DOW.Regards Crow.Ps Ken Corrigan is out here in Tenerife with me and sends his regards to any one out there who is still alive and old enough to remember him with a special hello to Steve Crew. Drum Bun collegues.
Hi Geoff, I hope that Ken is well and that he has bought a new cossie buy the old fellow a beer from me will you and give my best regards to him and Sheila.
Jazzandy:
Sorry but I’d have to challenge that with the comment “No twin stacks up the back of the cab!”
You got me there it only had the one stack
From what I can remember of UK based White RC2s, most of them did have only 1 stack, does anyone know the reason for that? Or maybe it was just tyhe ones I saw!
This was my old gal ■■■■■■■ 350 but I kept it well away from M/E work .
This one came from the Geneva Truck Show & the paint job was staight from the makers in USA.
The UK version had a shorter cab & chassis & were locally painted.
geoffthecrowtaylor:
Wheelnut and Mushroomman Ski and Arabian Freight not TAF both operated from Trafford Park Manchester up until about 1977 when SKI closed Arabian Freight moved to Stoneclough nr Farnworth for about a year and then like so many others disappeared into the sunset. Lenny Frost aka the Admiral or the Maggot did drive for SKI and later Dawnyard he finished up at DOW.Regards Crow.Ps Ken Corrigan is out here in Tenerife with me and sends his regards to any one out there who is still alive and old enough to remember him with a special hello to Steve Crew. Drum Bun collegues.
Hi geoffthecrowtaylor
Out of curiosity - was the SKI international you mention, the same outfit operated by a Steve Keller, out of Whitworth Street, Manchester about 1970-72 ?
Is it just me but I never did like units with stacks up the back. It wasn’t the stacks that looked unsightly but the mess the exhaust did to the front of the trailer!
Strange wehn you think not many years later we were doing Tehran and back in 4 weeks
however after a bit of digging in the sand I managed to find it on page four 
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although I was under the impression that his first appearance in a film was called Steamboat Willy with that well known character Mickey somebody (not Chinnock) the inventer of the substitute Yugoslave permit.
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