Biglorryblog's man 'North 'o the Border' (and, so I'm told, a very "tidy" HGV driver too) John Henderson has obviously had his memory jogged by yesterday's posts from Nick Garlick on the Middle East run and has sent me this old shots on the same topic, together with this message: "Hi Brian, re Nick Garlick's recent excellent photos, please find attached a better-loaded Ford taken on a Scotland/Middle East run circa 1977. The good old Ford D-series was (and still is?) a popular choice there and at least five examples can be seen in this shot."
John goes on to say: "The white Mack was driven by a regular acquaintance of our Scottish drivers (sorry can't remember his name) whose command of the English language and sense of humour, was superb.
The two border queue images are taken at the Iran/Iraq border, perhaps in safer days and looking back along the queue the trio of Eskside International's Dafs can be seen with their low height tilts for the road rail part of the journey.
"Hope this is of interest concludes John...." And Biglorryblog is just astounded at the sheer guts of the original Middle East pioneers. Those border gueues most have been purgatory and the conditions...maybe I've been spoilt but I take my hat off to anyone that did that job in those trucks. Meanwhile my thanks to John for the words and pictures ...I know this will start a new stream on the Middle East run...not least from newly 're-computerized' Ashley Coghill!
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