Like a lot of people, I borrow plenty of material picture-wise from the internet to place on these on our TN threads. One of the things that intrigues me is that a lot of my own pictures that I took and for which I still possess the negatives, seem to have found their way onto Pinterest. I’ve no idea what Pinterest is but they don’t appear to be making money out it, unless by advertising. Does anyone know anything about them? Among the many that appear on their sites here are three that I most frequently see randomly on the internet.
The first is a picture I took in Paris, of a Euroshield BOC Baker ERF E14 I was driving during August 1994.
The second is a picture I took of a Syrian bonneted Mercedes 1924 in the docks in Tangiers in the year 2000 when I was driving lorries on the Morocco run. The black flags on the front were mourning the death of Assad senior (father of the current one). I chatted to the driver, Aziz, who claimed that it was 60-tonner. When I had a look at the trailer’s suspension I wasn’t surprised by that the claim. He had run from Damascus to Casablanca via Jordan, Egypt (he’d have done the Aquaba to Nuweiba crossing I would have thought), Libya and then by ferry to Morocco. He had TV and air-con to make his life easier.
The third picture shows an Oto-San (Turkish Ford) I snapped in Alanya on the Med coast of Turkey in April 1998. I had overtaken it on the pass crossing from Konya earlier in the day.
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Like a lot of people, I borrow plenty of material picture-wise from the internet to place on these on our TN threads. One of the things that intrigues me is that a lot of my own pictures that I took and for which I still possess the negatives, seem to have found their way onto Pinterest. I’ve no idea what Pinterest is but they don’t appear to be making money out it, unless by advertising. Does anyone know anything about them? Among the many that appear on their sites here are three that I most frequently see randomly on the internet.
The first is a picture I took in Paris, of a Euroshield BOC Baker ERF E14 I was driving during August 1994.
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The second is a picture I took of a Syrian bonneted Mercedes 1924 in the docks in Tangiers in the year 2000 when I was driving lorries on the Morocco run. The black flags on the front were mourning the death of Assad senior (father of the current one). I chatted to the driver, Aziz, who claimed that it was 60-tonner. When I had a look at the trailer’s suspension I wasn’t surprised by that the claim. He had run from Damascus to Casablanca via Jordan, Egypt (he’d have done the Aquaba to Nuweiba crossing I would have thought), Libya and then by ferry to Morocco. He had TV and air-con to make his life easier.
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The third picture shows an Oto-San (Turkish Ford) I snapped in Alanya on the Med coast of Turkey in April 1998. I had overtaken it on the pass crossing from Konya earlier in the day.
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That Merc. So that would be 4 BHP per ton. Bloody hell. That would explain why I saw similar vehicles crawling, really crawling, up the hill out of Aquaba in Jordan!
Hi Ro, I have looked into this in the past way back when it started, a real can of worms, your post prompted me to take another look, this might help
help.pinterest.com/en/article/copyright
Oily
Dipster:
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Like a lot of people, I borrow plenty of material picture-wise from the internet to place on these on our TN threads. One of the things that intrigues me is that a lot of my own pictures that I took and for which I still possess the negatives, seem to have found their way onto Pinterest. I’ve no idea what Pinterest is but they don’t appear to be making money out it, unless by advertising. Does anyone know anything about them? Among the many that appear on their sites here are three that I most frequently see randomly on the internet.
The first is a picture I took in Paris, of a Euroshield BOC Baker ERF E14 I was driving during August 1994.
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The second is a picture I took of a Syrian bonneted Mercedes 1924 in the docks in Tangiers in the year 2000 when I was driving lorries on the Morocco run. The black flags on the front were mourning the death of Assad senior (father of the current one). I chatted to the driver, Aziz, who claimed that it was 60-tonner. When I had a look at the trailer’s suspension I wasn’t surprised by that the claim. He had run from Damascus to Casablanca via Jordan, Egypt (he’d have done the Aquaba to Nuweiba crossing I would have thought), Libya and then by ferry to Morocco. He had TV and air-con to make his life easier.
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The third picture shows an Oto-San (Turkish Ford) I snapped in Alanya on the Med coast of Turkey in April 1998. I had overtaken it on the pass crossing from Konya earlier in the day.
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That Merc. So that would be 4 BHP per ton. Bloody hell. That would explain why I saw similar vehicles crawling, really crawling, up the hill out of Aquaba in Jordan!
I saw that too: The King’s Highway I think it’s called. I also used to overtake them on the long hill out of Nuweiba area (on the other side of the Gulf of Aqaba) as they made their way across Sinai.
oiltreader:
Hi Ro, I have looked into this in the past way back when it started, a real can of worms, your post prompted me to take another look, this might help
help.pinterest.com/en/article/copyright
Oily
Thanks Oily! Yes, that enlightens me a bit more. 
There are a lot of photo’s being posted from various sources now on different truck related sites, some I see on here I’ve just looked at on another site a day or two before. Pinterest is one of those that wants you to sign in to view the photo’s they have so I don’t bother, seems a bit of a cheek as that site has poached them from somewhere else anyway! Franky.
Geordielad:
There are a lot of photo’s being posted from various sources now on different truck related sites, some I see on here I’ve just looked at on another site a day or two before. Pinterest is one of those that wants you to sign in to view the photo’s they have so I don’t bother, seems a bit of a cheek as that site has poached them from somewhere else anyway! Franky.
That’s what I thought too! I refuse to sign in to see my own pictures . But they all pop up all over the place anyway so you get to see them in the end. At least all the Pinterest pics I use on here are visible without having to sign up.
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Dipster:
ERF-NGC-European:
Like a lot of people, I borrow plenty of material picture-wise from the internet to place on these on our TN threads. One of the things that intrigues me is that a lot of my own pictures that I took and for which I still possess the negatives, seem to have found their way onto Pinterest. I’ve no idea what Pinterest is but they don’t appear to be making money out it, unless by advertising. Does anyone know anything about them? Among the many that appear on their sites here are three that I most frequently see randomly on the internet.
The first is a picture I took in Paris, of a Euroshield BOC Baker ERF E14 I was driving during August 1994.
The second is a picture I took of a Syrian bonneted Mercedes 1924 in the docks in Tangiers in the year 2000 when I was driving lorries on the Morocco run. The black flags on the front were mourning the death of Assad senior (father of the current one). I chatted to the driver, Aziz, who claimed that it was 60-tonner. When I had a look at the trailer’s suspension I wasn’t surprised by that the claim. He had run from Damascus to Casablanca via Jordan, Egypt (he’d have done the Aquaba to Nuweiba crossing I would have thought), Libya and then by ferry to Morocco. He had TV and air-con to make his life easier.
The third picture shows an Oto-San (Turkish Ford) I snapped in Alanya on the Med coast of Turkey in April 1998. I had overtaken it on the pass crossing from Konya earlier in the day.
That Merc. So that would be 4 BHP per ton. Bloody hell. That would explain why I saw similar vehicles crawling, really crawling, up the hill out of Aquaba in Jordan!
I saw that too: The King’s Highway I think it’s called. I also used to overtake them on the long hill out of Nuweiba area (on the other side of the Gulf of Aqaba) as they made their way across Sinai.
I don’t mind anybody reshowing my photos but it does annoy me when I see that somebody has put their name on the photo and their copyright mark.
Original.
Is it The King’s Highway, I always thought that it was called The Aqaba Highway but I have just looked on Google Earth and it’s got it down as The Desert Highway. Or is The King’s Highway a series of roads between Amman and Aqaba. 
You are dead right Dipster, it’s a good slog on a spectacular piece of road coming up from Aqaba.
earth.google.com/web/search/Aqa … RHFFR2cQAg
mushroomman:
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Dipster:
ERF-NGC-European:
Like a lot of people, I borrow plenty of material picture-wise from the internet to place on these on our TN threads. One of the things that intrigues me is that a lot of my own pictures that I took and for which I still possess the negatives, seem to have found their way onto Pinterest. I’ve no idea what Pinterest is but they don’t appear to be making money out it, unless by advertising. Does anyone know anything about them? Among the many that appear on their sites here are three that I most frequently see randomly on the internet.
The first is a picture I took in Paris, of a Euroshield BOC Baker ERF E14 I was driving during August 1994.
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The second is a picture I took of a Syrian bonneted Mercedes 1924 in the docks in Tangiers in the year 2000 when I was driving lorries on the Morocco run. The black flags on the front were mourning the death of Assad senior (father of the current one). I chatted to the driver, Aziz, who claimed that it was 60-tonner. When I had a look at the trailer’s suspension I wasn’t surprised by that the claim. He had run from Damascus to Casablanca via Jordan, Egypt (he’d have done the Aquaba to Nuweiba crossing I would have thought), Libya and then by ferry to Morocco. He had TV and air-con to make his life easier.
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The third picture shows an Oto-San (Turkish Ford) I snapped in Alanya on the Med coast of Turkey in April 1998. I had overtaken it on the pass crossing from Konya earlier in the day.
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That Merc. So that would be 4 BHP per ton. Bloody hell. That would explain why I saw similar vehicles crawling, really crawling, up the hill out of Aquaba in Jordan!
I saw that too: The King’s Highway I think it’s called. I also used to overtake them on the long hill out of Nuweiba area (on the other side of the Gulf of Aqaba) as they made their way across Sinai.
I don’t mind anybody reshowing my photos but it does annoy me when I see that somebody has put their name on the photo and their copyright mark.
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Is it The King’s Highway, I always thought that it was called The Aqaba Highway but I have just looked on Google Earth and it’s got it down as The Desert Highway. Or is The King’s Highway a series of roads between Amman and Aqaba.
You are dead right Dipster, it’s a good slog on a spectacular piece of road coming up from Aqaba.
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earth.google.com/web/search/Aqa … RHFFR2cQAg
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Yes, you’re right. I’ve travelled on both of them but the Desert Highway is indeed the one that heads north out of Aqaba. The King’s Highway is a very ancient road that runs parallel with it up to Amman.
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Like a lot of people, I borrow plenty of material picture-wise from the internet to place on these on our TN threads. One of the things that intrigues me is that a lot of my own pictures that I took and for which I still possess the negatives, seem to have found their way onto Pinterest. I’ve no idea what Pinterest is but they don’t appear to be making money out it, unless by advertising. Does anyone know anything about them? Among the many that appear on their sites here are three that I most frequently see randomly on the internet.
The first is a picture I took in Paris, of a Euroshield BOC Baker ERF E14 I was driving during August 1994.
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The second is a picture I took of a Syrian bonneted Mercedes 1924 in the docks in Tangiers in the year 2000 when I was driving lorries on the Morocco run. The black flags on the front were mourning the death of Assad senior (father of the current one). I chatted to the driver, Aziz, who claimed that it was 60-tonner. When I had a look at the trailer’s suspension I wasn’t surprised by that the claim. He had run from Damascus to Casablanca via Jordan, Egypt (he’d have done the Aquaba to Nuweiba crossing I would have thought), Libya and then by ferry to Morocco. He had TV and air-con to make his life easier.
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The third picture shows an Oto-San (Turkish Ford) I snapped in Alanya on the Med coast of Turkey in April 1998. I had overtaken it on the pass crossing from Konya earlier in the day.
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When would the D series copy have been built?
essexpete:
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Like a lot of people, I borrow plenty of material picture-wise from the internet to place on these on our TN threads. One of the things that intrigues me is that a lot of my own pictures that I took and for which I still possess the negatives, seem to have found their way onto Pinterest. I’ve no idea what Pinterest is but they don’t appear to be making money out it, unless by advertising. Does anyone know anything about them? Among the many that appear on their sites here are three that I most frequently see randomly on the internet.
The first is a picture I took in Paris, of a Euroshield BOC Baker ERF E14 I was driving during August 1994.
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The second is a picture I took of a Syrian bonneted Mercedes 1924 in the docks in Tangiers in the year 2000 when I was driving lorries on the Morocco run. The black flags on the front were mourning the death of Assad senior (father of the current one). I chatted to the driver, Aziz, who claimed that it was 60-tonner. When I had a look at the trailer’s suspension I wasn’t surprised by that the claim. He had run from Damascus to Casablanca via Jordan, Egypt (he’d have done the Aquaba to Nuweiba crossing I would have thought), Libya and then by ferry to Morocco. He had TV and air-con to make his life easier.
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The third picture shows an Oto-San (Turkish Ford) I snapped in Alanya on the Med coast of Turkey in April 1998. I had overtaken it on the pass crossing from Konya earlier in the day.
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When would the D series copy have been built?
I believe the tooling / licencing or whatever went to Oto-san Turkey when the D-series cab was replaced by the newer Eurocargo so that would have been shortly after 1981. Someone might confirm this.
In the early eighties, I did two loads of Ford parts from Fords near Daventry to a Ford factory in Ankara.
I have been searching for the last couple of days to see if there is any mention of a Ford factory in Ankara to no avail so I am now wondering if I must of delivered the loads into a warehouse somewhere or did I unload the crates into a Turkish customs shed in Ankara.
I did come across this article from last month which say’s that Ford have just announced to build a new plant in Ankara, to make batteries for it’s new range of electric vehicles.
bloomberg.com/news/articles … oc-holding
I took these two photo near Samsun on The Black Sea Coast in about 1982/3.
I have shown this photo on here before and a Trucknet member in Germany replied saying that the painting on the side was usually a scene near the village where the lorry came from. This was very helpful to the villagers who couldn’t read and write if they were visiting another village.
Has anybody heard this kind of story before or was somebody pulling my leg.
