GOOD MORNING ALL…LEO SMITH, DOES ANYBODY KNOW WHERE HE IS?
Nazmi, you have a PM.
Dave.
Jazzandy:
Thanks Nazmi, We’ve now got the official figures.
Hi Nazmi, I used to work for M and C … Mervyn King, subbing for Astran from the mid to 80s onwards,
However, I have just met a fella going by the name of Roger Rowley …
Ring any bells with you blokes? Yeah he’s still around ha ha, unlike old Mick Chinnock who passed a couple of years since,.
Hi Nigel
Are you the Nice Nigel that used to drive the yellow and red F12 pulling for Astran? did a trip to Tehran late 80’s ?
If it is you, how are you ?
If it isn’t you then I apologise.
Best regards
Gavin
naughty nige:
Jazzandy:
Thanks Nazmi, We’ve now got the official figures.Hi Nazmi, I used to work for M and C … Mervyn King, subbing for Astran from the mid to 80s onwards,
However, I have just met a fella going by the name of Roger Rowley …
Ring any bells with you blokes? Yeah he’s still around ha ha, unlike old Mick Chinnock who passed a couple of years since,.
Roger Rowley was on OHS about the same time as I was – 1977 to 1978 – came from somewhere in Essex I think… Met up with him freezing weather in Turkey [heading home] – he was running with a driver called Steve [Cooper I think] and we decided that a band of five drivers could get home for Christmas if we got our fingers out… One of the guys [John from Birmingham?] bottled out in the bad weather conditions and remember we came home Czec Republic + East & West Germany to Bremerhaven!! Slept for most of the crossing [knackered & ferry full of drunken squaddies] but we 4 were home for Christmas…
Last saw Roger over 10 or 15 years ago and he was working for Transport Ministery [got pulled in at Dunkirk – top of the hill out of Dover]… Tells a good story does Roger but a pain in the arse to run with.
Big Leggy:
naughty nige:
Jazzandy:
Thanks Nazmi, We’ve now got the official figures.Hi Nazmi, I used to work for M and C … Mervyn King, subbing for Astran from the mid to 80s onwards,
However, I have just met a fella going by the name of Roger Rowley …
Ring any bells with you blokes? Yeah he’s still around ha ha, unlike old Mick Chinnock who passed a couple of years since,.Roger Rowley was on OHS about the same time as I was – 1977 to 1978 – came from somewhere in Essex I think… Met up with him freezing weather in Turkey [heading home] – he was running with a driver called Steve [Cooper I think] and we decided that a band of five drivers could get home for Christmas if we got our fingers out… One of the guys [John from Birmingham?] bottled out in the bad weather conditions and remember we came home Czec Republic + East & West Germany to Bremerhaven!! Slept for most of the crossing [knackered & ferry full of drunken squaddies] but we 4 were home for Christmas…
Last saw Roger over 10 or 15 years ago and he was working for Transport Ministery [got pulled in at Dunkirk – top of the hill out of Dover]… Tells a good story does Roger but a pain in the arse to run with.
Also I believe he was ex Biss Transport & may be remembered from there…
naughty nige:
Jazzandy:
Thanks Nazmi, We’ve now got the official figures.Hi Nazmi, I used to work for M and C … Mervyn King, subbing for Astran from the mid to 80s onwards,
However, I have just met a fella going by the name of Roger Rowley …
Ring any bells with you blokes? Yeah he’s still around ha ha, unlike old Mick Chinnock who passed a couple of years since,.
I heard Micky Chinnock had a new identity, did anyone see him buried
I got on well with Mickey,used to meet up in Porto -good company.Mervyn & I were drivers at the same time for Colchester Transport. He drove 4 wheeler at the time.
Typo
Hello everybody, The Boss is not doıng very well lately, had parkinsons, and some days
he ıs not feelıng very good…I’ll go and see hım thıw eeek-end ın Bodrum
my pm is info@nazmiozcan.com
davemackie:
Nazmi, you have a PM.
Dave.
M&C steve:
Tony Baker,
One more of lifes great characters that is sadly no longer with us.
Known by many as Bunny, or sometimes The Poison Dwarf, or even Hunchfront as he was called by a few of the chaps at M+C Tpt.
Hello all, never met Tony Baker but Sean Nolan used to drive for me Dad, and indeed the foto of the transcon in the background was his. Have many many happy memories of Sean and went to Spain a few times with him when I was about 17.He once let me drive from Zeebrugge…said take it steady and you’ll be fine, then promptly fell asleep and only woke up when I cocked up a gear change (in my defense it was a twin split gearbox in a Strato) and when we wear nearing Luxembourg !!
A truly nice man and didn’t stress about much ever. JFLGP was his phrase.
Brand new Mack F786 with Dorsey trailer and TiltTek tilt with Tom Trigg, the workshop foreman, in the foreground!
My first job was for Keep Freight Forwarding based opposite OHS in Rainham.
This was 1985, nearly 30 years ago, blimey, and I remember that I thought OHS were foreign .
That picture brings it all back.
hopey1945:
Hi, Terry, need a hand!!!
Hey, Nice pic still old school drivers who can change and even repair one, and even along the road.
It would be nice such drivers today,not the all youngsters don’t want do it any more.
But time has changed too, who has nowadays still a sparewheel with him,even anymore allowed today in France to change a tyre.
Bye Eric,
tiptop495:
hopey1945:
Hi, Terry, need a hand!!!Hey, Nice pic still old school drivers who can change and even repair one, and even along the road.
It would be nice such drivers today,not the all youngsters don’t want do it any more.
But time has changed too, who has nowadays still a sparewheel with him,even anymore allowed today in France to change a tyre.Bye Eric,
We didn’t have much choice then did we?
You know how it went,you do several trips with no tyre problems,then you have a trip with nothing but tyre problems.
I was heading for Kuwait,and halfway down the Tapline I had a flat after already using my two spares,so a day off parked on the side of the Tapline to have a tyre repair session,and sort out the best position for the tyres I had.
I’m sure our tyre supplier would have been glad to come out to me,if there had been a 'phone within 500 miles!
