North Africa work

[bullitt]

robert1952:
…just wait for him to come back from the Marco Polo in Tangiers at 3:00 in the morning and get his bugle out to perform the wakey-wakey call. On failing that, Roger ‘Golden Blx’ Guild could be relied upon to set off fireworks under the lorries and bring the port authorities railing and scurrying to the scene…

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Great pics again Robert and Im sure we all have fond memories of times past spent travelling around Europe, but im sorry, If your mate had rolled up pi££ed as a parrot and had started playing a bugle at 0300hrs, there would have been merry hell to pay!! Same with some clown letting off fireworks under peoples trucks!! Sorry mate, but that was one of the reasons why I (amongst many others) used to avoid Brit watering holes like the plague.

Still a great thread though, please keep posting the pics.

[robert1952]

bullitt:

robert1952:
…just wait for him to come back from the Marco Polo in Tangiers at 3:00 in the morning and get his bugle out to perform the wakey-wakey call. On failing that, Roger ‘Golden Blx’ Guild could be relied upon to set off fireworks under the lorries and bring the port authorities railing and scurrying to the scene…

Great pics again Robert and Im sure we all have fond memories of times past spent travelling around Europe, but im sorry, If your mate had rolled up pi££ed as a parrot and had started playing a bugle at 0300hrs, there would have been merry hell to pay!! Same with some clown letting off fireworks under peoples trucks!! Sorry mate, but that was one of the reasons why I (amongst many others) used to avoid Brit watering holes like the plague.

Still a great thread though, please keep posting the pics.
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Actually, I’m with you there: I used to avoid the Cabbage Patch at Bordeaux and Victors in Spain for the same reason. Brit drivers could be the biggest hazard down the road at times.know where you’re coming from. But actually, Tangier port wasn’t like that. We all worked for international companies and drivers didn’t fight each other like they did in the watering holes you avoided: they tended to pull together, bugles and fireworks notwithstanding! Robert

[adr]

Double-manning day-cab?

[adr]

Couple of old North African chuggers!

[saviem]

adr:
Couple of old North African chuggers!

Evening all, evocative photograph that one adr.

On the left it looks like on of CTMs, ( Compagnie des transports Marocains) Bernard TD 150.35 , powered by the licence built Gardner 150LW and Casablanca registered. These old girls of the 50s ran for over 25 years of service, at a “nominal” 35 tonnes gross.

La CTM, kept these old things running via a policy of canabalisation, re engineering, (many were retro fitted with DAF 11.9 litres. CTM also operated some of the rare, and utterly unreliable V8 Alsthom air cooled “Greyhound” Bernards, (T200.35D), which were retro fitted with Barreiros , others again with DAF power. I remember that the Maroc climate allowed the coachwork to age, but without any rust!

The CTM parc at Oued Zem, back in the late 70s was a veritable graveyard of Bernard tractors being dismantled to keep the few remaining examples running. Bernard was gradually replaced by Moroccan built Berliet TLR10s, a “nominal” 35 tonne tractor, 4x2, with the 9.5 litre 180 hp engine.

The little Berliet on the right of adrs picture looks like a BMC powered , ( BMC5.1 litre 51.VD 90hp 4 cylinder), and UK BMC chassis GLC 5, fitted with the “Relax” Berliet steel cab, built at Berliets d`Ain-Sebaa plant at Cassablanca. These little 5,5tonners were very popular and could easily carry their gross weight as payload!!

Fascinating place, and lorry market, some of the lorries sold, Fore Traders, Willeme`s, Shark Noses, and all sorts of ancient US iron soldiered on well into the late 70s and 80s.

Thanks for the memories,

Cheerio for now.

[adr]

Saviem:

adr:
Couple of old North African chuggers!

Evening all, evocative photograph that one adr.

On the left it looks like on of CTMs, ( Compagnie des transports Marocains) Bernard TD 150.35 , powered by the licence built Gardner 150LW and Casablanca registered. These old girls of the 50s ran for over 25 years of service, at a “nominal” 35 tonnes gross.

La CTM, kept these old things running via a policy of canabalisation, re engineering, (many were retro fitted with DAF 11.9 litres. CTM also operated some of the rare, and utterly unreliable V8 Alsthom air cooled “Greyhound” Bernards, (T200.35D), which were retro fitted with Barreiros , others again with DAF power. I remember that the Maroc climate allowed the coachwork to age, but without any rust!

The CTM parc at Oued Zem, back in the late 70s was a veritable graveyard of Bernard tractors being dismantled to keep the few remaining examples running. Bernard was gradually replaced by Moroccan built Berliet TLR10s, a “nominal” 35 tonne tractor, 4x2, with the 9.5 litre 180 hp engine.

The little Berliet on the right of adrs picture looks like a BMC powered , ( BMC5.1 litre 51.VD 90hp 4 cylinder), and UK BMC chassis GLC 5, fitted with the “Relax” Berliet steel cab, built at Berliets d`Ain-Sebaa plant at Cassablanca. These little 5,5tonners were very popular and could easily carry their gross weight as payload!!

Fascinating place, and lorry market, some of the lorries sold, Fore Traders, Willeme`s, Shark Noses, and all sorts of ancient US iron soldiered on well into the late 70s and 80s.

Thanks for the memories,

Cheerio for now.

Thanks for the info’ Saviem, very interesting! Regards Chris

[boyzee]

A few more photo,s south of Blida running down to Tamarasset.

[harry]

Big Rog

Metal Mickey -on the far right-after a mishap in the fog on the Fez road.

[harry]

Quayside bar in Cadiz.

Main road -Tanger/Casa.

[boyzee]

[harry]

Let’s turn the clock back and have some fun!

[jelliot]

If I could do it all again I would in a heartbeat, but this time I would take a camera.

Jeff…

[harry]

The old main road to Rabat.

[boyzee]

Ford lousville with portable home,s on running near mostagenham along the coast road.One of the many blowouts,trailer,s used were ex brittania trailer hire out of barking essex and were all old scrappers,most were just wrecks and no good for the weight we were carrying.

[robert1952]

boyzee:




Ford lousville with portable home,s on running near mostagenham along the coast road.One of the many blowouts,trailer,s used were ex brittania trailer hire out of barking essex and were all old scrappers,most were just wrecks and no good for the weight we were carrying.

This was pioneering stuff lads - it’s a hell of long way across the desert to Tamanrasset in Algeria! Robert

[tiptop495]

hey Robert, which was the best route the short (2000km) or the longer 2500■■? to Tamanrasset, or is it only the last years that there are two ways.

Bye Eric,

[robert1952]

tiptop495:
hey Robert, which was the best route the short (2000km) or the longer 2500■■? to Tamanrasset, or is it only the last years that there are two ways.

Bye Eric,

Heavens! I only did Morocco and Tunisia, not Algeria but I know my geography well enough to know your journey was a long one over arduous terrain! Robert:)

[harry]

I did Algeria , 6km from the port to the abbatior and then back empty.

[mushroomman]

robert1952:

tiptop495:
hey Robert, which was the best route the short (2000km) or the longer 2500■■? to Tamanrasset, or is it only the last years that there are two ways.

Bye Eric,

Heavens! I only did Morocco and Tunisia, not Algeria but I know my geography well enough to know your journey was a long one over arduous terrain! Robert:)

Hey Boyzee, do you ever remember seeing a sign just before Tamanrasset that was stuck up in the middle of nowhere heading towards a range of hills. We drove over to have a closer look and it said Tamanrasset with an arrow pointing left 101 kilometres and with an arrow pointing right 103 kilometres.

Tam 1975.

After seeing Boyzee’s great photo’s I decided to do a search and stumbled across this vid which shows the Hoggar Massif area around Tamanrasset.

globe-tourism.com/ahaggar-mountains.html
Enjoy.

[jelliot]

The week between Christmas and New Year it was very windy here, It blew steady around 75kph but the gusts were up to 179kph. One of my storage sheds suffered a lot of damage ( Actually most of it ended up in the river.) My wife, son, and I spent the rest of day salvaging stuff and one of the things I found was a large box of stuff that I haven’t opened since it was sealed in Britain almost 16 years ago. Some of the contents of some the boxes were photos that I had long forgotten that I had, let alone taken and there are about 2500 of them, many of them truck photos.

So here are some.

Breda. It can only be one place.

It was very windy at Dover that night as well so we were all backed up Jubilee Drive

Here’s me in France land on my way to Tunisia with a couple of tanks. I loaded the drag on the back of the Volvo at Gasfa and reloaded lumps of marble out of the south of Italy for a return load.
On this trip I was 3 weeks past my 21st birthday. I got my license through the young drivers scheme and had been driving draw bars since I was 18, at that time a draw bar was classed as a class 3.

One of Baxter Lowfell’s sand tractors that was operating out of Gasfa southern Tunisia.

They asked me if I wanted to drive it back to Britain, but I passed. They even pointed out that they had change the sand runners for highway tread.

Jeff…