All the Macks and GMC’s were licensed PLG and were supposed to drop their trailers in Dover port area and proceed unit only to Rainham Essex depot. We had shunters to do the UK leg. occasionally there might be an emergency and a ‘risk’ would have to be taken and I don’t think we were ever caught. Certainly I never pulled a loaded trailer in the UK with my GMC.
The Seddon Atki’s were originally supposed to be for UK shunting only. The Volvos were after my time as was the dustbin Mack.
Thanks Jazzandy, IIRC that is more or less what the driver of the OHS truck said, bloody amazing what memories come back to yer when you are reading a good thread 
BTW really enjoying this little bit of transport history.
Regards
Dave Penn;
Here’s a picture of my truck and a couple of drivers I was taking down makee learn. This was taken on the coast road between Cannakale and Izmir.
Can’t remember their names but the guy in black was a scientologist and the other guy became office manager for setting up the new office and depot in Rainham Essex.
my grandad used to drive for them does anybody remember Frank Roberts? he used to drive for European Frieghtbus aswell
Hi
Cool thread.great memories and photos,in the 1970’s magazines ohs were mentioned in the sherpa van adverts.i never realised ohs had any gmc astro’s 
I found this photo on the web of a b model mack,was this a foreign subby motor?
Regards Andrew.
my grandad said that the driver of that bonneted mack was a turk driver and that he used to sleep in that in deep snow with no night heater lol
OHS/Contex had a number of Turkish subbies mainly owner drivers and that was one of them.
They also had some old cab over Macks that had had custom built Turkish cabs put on them which looked a bit like Scania 110’s
Jazzandy:
They also had some old cab over Macks that had had custom built Turkish cabs put on them which looked a bit like Scania 110’s
Blimey! I never thought I would find anything more out about this, and now it gets a mention here!
Have you any more information on these? If so, it would make some German old lorry enthusiasts sehr glucklich- they were stumped by it: baumaschinenbilder.de/forum/ … 0&page=208. To be fair, they guessed right- old US chassis, homemade cab. What vintage Mack chassis did they use? The front axle looks like something pre-war. The cab is superb though, for a hand-made effort. The TV and newspapers occasionally run features on Cuban sheet-metal workers, keeping their old Yank tanks on the road with home-made panels. The Turks go one better with this.
Hi, this is not Scania, Foto in german autobahn 1972, company Er-Sen. Is a turkish FWD (licens 1965-1973) , with turkish cab, hier another FWD of Contex-OHS in Salzburg.
Regards
Orientmack
Hi Orientmack that last photo looks like the old Scwarzbach Autobahn grenz!
Yes Schwarzbach, 1977
orientmack:
Hi, this is not Scania, Foto in german autobahn 1972, company Er-Sen. Is a turkish FWD (licens 1965-1973) , with turkish cab, hier another FWD of Contex-OHS in Salzburg.
Regards
Orientmack
Hi Orientmack, thanks for another fascinating photo. The cab on the FWD is actually different to the one from LKW Stefan, above. There must have been some competition between those brilliant Turks, to see who could make the most authentic-looking Scania! That looks like an OHS logo on the door.
I wonder if any of these works of art have survived?
Hi Anorak,
FWD Turkey has restored several cabs and mounted on FWD, most of wich were revised Scania, but there were also MAN, Henschel, Mack, Bussing. I have some photos that I have already published most of the aforementioned German forum. Unfortunately, none of these trucks has survived.
Most of it was FWD from Contex-OHS, Er-Sen Istanbul and Tuzcuoglu Transport Ankara.
Regards
Orientmack from TroianCity Turkey
Hello again, Orientmack. Do you have links for the photos on the German site? It would take me ages to find them, because it is such a huge site. What is your username on that site? Regarding your footer comment, “i love trucks from 70s”- I love obscure trucks, so these craftsman-built oddities are great stuff.
Hi Anorak,
I am the starter of this thread in “LKW Stefan Baumaschinenebilder” thread name is “Fernlaster aus dem Ostblock, Türkei, Griechenland…”
Nickname is Mack F 700
orientmack:
Hi Anorak,
I am the starter of this thread in “LKW Stefan Baumaschinenebilder” thread name is “Fernlaster aus dem Ostblock, Türkei, Griechenland…”
Nickname is Mack F 700
It is a very interesting thread. I have referred to it at a few times, in discussions on this forum. Right, I’ll start searching the 300+ pages for more handbuilt trucks! Thanks for info again.
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anorak:orientmack:
Hi Anorak,
I am the starter of this thread in “LKW Stefan Baumaschinenebilder” thread name is “Fernlaster aus dem Ostblock, Türkei, Griechenland…”
Nickname is Mack F 700It is a very interesting thread. I have referred to it at a few times, in discussions on this forum. Right, I’ll start searching the 300+ pages for more handbuilt trucks! Thanks for info again.
Missed this one somehow.Great thread and pictures orientmack.Only up to page33-but will get through all of the quite(thankfully) short pages.Excellent photos of Eastern Bloc trucks-SOMAT had 4000+ trucks- quite staggerring.Couple of OHS and Astran there as well.
Sir +:
Missed this one somehow.Great thread and pictures orientmack.Only up to page33-but will get through all of the quite(thankfully) short pages.Excellent photos of Eastern Bloc trucks-SOMAT had 4000+ trucks- quite staggerring.Couple of OHS and Astran there as well.
Hi Sir+, If you spot any more of those Turkish “Scanias,” (or anything else of interest) put them up here. I have been through it, and can’t find any. Blind as a bat, me.
I don’t think any of the big fleets, Er Sen, Ulusoy, Contex , Bergama etc had any of these hand built trucks. they were owner drivers who could only afford to go international, which paid them far better than local work, by converting old bangers into ‘new’ bangers.
Mack used to offer what they called a glider kit which was everything except the drive train.
There were much older Macks and Aurocars etc. around in Tirkey and Iran. Somewhere I’ve got some photos which I’ll post.
