Andrew Cooper is obviously a fan of 'Tales from the Middle East run' as he says: "Hi Brian, I enjoyed the posting about the Middle-East spec. F88s and I thought I'd trawl through some of the poor-quality old photos that I have inherited over the years. During the 70's our business neighbour was a company called J&M Transport, they ran a fleet of around ten F88s doing UK and international work."
"During the boom times of the mid-seventies they did many trips to the Middle-East. I recall one regular job that they had was taking electric light bulbs to Baghdad. They also did many other jobs to Kabul, Iran and Rawalpindi. Sadly several of their drivers are no longer with us, although their legacy are these....albeit poor quality pictures."
"Eagle-eyed anoraks amongst us should recognise the building in the background of the two J&M 88s coming home piggyback as the one shown in "Destination Doha" when they are entering Belgrade."
"All these shots were taken during the mid-seventies when cameras were basic and as my dear departed (ex J&M Middle-East man) friend Sid Evans once told me, 'I had only ever been as far as Scotland before and J&M went and sent me to some place called Tehran!' Gentleman, says Andrew I salute you!" Me and you both Andrew! The guys who did those earlty Mid-East runs were REAL pioneers!
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