Lorries of Arabia 3: ERF NGC

Author: Robert Hackford
Publisher: Fox Chapel Publishing
ISBN: 1913618161
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 153

Book Description
A must for all ERF fans, this is the third and final installment in The Lorries of Arabia series. While the first book paid tribute to ERF’s world-class long-haulers in the Middle East and those who drove them and the second book went on to explore the fortunes of this legendary machine, this final volume is a continued narration of an unfolding history in the 1970s and 1980s of a premium tractive unit model. With new findings, new details, new insights, and new pictures, readers of the first two books will surely enjoy the final volume of this acclaimed series. Containing a full register of all the 91 NGCs known to have ever been built, this is the enthusiast’s guide to the rugged, reliable, left-hand drive tractive unit forever associated with long-haul European and Middle Eastern routes of the 70s and 80s.

Lorries of Arabia: The ERF NGC

Author: Robert Hackford
Publisher: Fox Chapel Publishing
ISBN: 1910456381
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 103

Book Description
This book is a tribute to ERF's world-class long-hauler, especially the Middle East examples, and to those who drove them. What did the ERF NGCs look like? How well did they perform? Where did they venture? What were they like to drive and to live in? And where did they stand in ERF's contribution to Britain's place in the history of the TIR-trail? Left-hand drive ERFs were, perhaps, one of the more beguiling elements in the exotic pageantry of 1970s Middle-East trucking - and this particular model earned a reputation for excellent performance in the mountains, a theme that runs throughout this book. The vision of these magnificent machines hauling articulated road-trains over the Saudi mountains in Trans-Arabia livery is a treat.

Lorries of Arabia: ERF NGC: 2

Author: Robert Hackford
Publisher: Fox Chapel Publishing
ISBN: 1910456462
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 103

Book Description
This book is a companion to the hugely popular Lorries of Arabia: ERF NGC, published in 2015. The first book made tribute to ERF's world-class long-hauler, focussing in particular on the Middle-East examples, and to those who drove them. It was acclaimed for its "evocative photographs" and Robert's "passionate" and descriptive style of writing and Truck and Driver called it "essential reading for the many enthusiasts of this golden chapter in haulage history".Lorries of Arabia 2 continues to explore the fortunes of this legendary machine. Including 100 fully captioned pictures, many of which have only been brought to light since the publication of Lorries, this volume clearly demonstrates the romance of the road. This book will enhance and enrich the body of knowledge pertaining to the culture of the Middle-East run in the 1970s/80s and will further delight fans of the first book, whetting their appetite for more

ERF Lorries

Author: Carl Johnson
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN: 1398100730
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 195

Book Description
A wonderful collection of previously unpublished images from the first chairman of the Register ERF Society.

British Lorries 1900-1945

Author: S. W. Stevens-Stratten
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN: 1445694522
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 215

Book Description
A concise history of more than forty lorry manufacturers and their products from the first half of the twentieth century.

The Silk Road and Beyond

Author: Ivor Whitall
Publisher: Fox Chapel Publishing
ISBN: 1912158671
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 376

Book Description
True accounts of one man’s long-distance trucking career that began in the late 1960s, these adventurous anecdotes are told by one of the first pioneers in long-distance trucking to the Middle East, Ivor Whittall. From traveling overseas to Kuwait, driving the desert trek between Jordan and Saudi Arabia, and surviving the infamously dangerous (and sometimes deadly) Tahir Pass in Eastern Turkey that has claimed the lives of truckers with its haphazard landslides and avalanches and tricky mountainous terrain, readers get a driver’s seat perspective to Whittall’s daring career. With 72 contemporary color photos of trucks, drivers, passports, visas, and custom forms, readers will be thrust into what it was like being a long-distance trucker in the 1970s. Full of disastrous near misses, border control mishaps, intense home sickness, mechanical failures, cultural misunderstandings, and so much more, this book will urge you to buckle up.

Time and Tide

Author: Philip R. Jordan
Publisher: Troubador Publishing Ltd
ISBN: 9781906221508
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 104

Book Description
Presents the story of the Suttons Group, from its creation by Alf Sutton. This is not a book about heavy goods vehicles, but the struggles, dramas and successes the group has endured in its 80 year history.

Scrapped and Disused Lorries

Author: Carl Johnson
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN: 1398100773
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 187

Book Description
It is not possible to save and restore all lorries that have come to the end of their working life.In operators' yards there is often an assortment of old vehicles, with some used for spares to keep others running. Scrapyards also often have a motley collection of vehicles in various forms of decay. Of course, with the ever increasing interest in preserving our past quite a few vehicles have been rescued and rebuilt from seemingly impossible states of disrepair.This book offers a fascinating insight into the twilight years of some of these lorries.

Ford Transcontinental at Work

Author: Patrick W. Dyer
Publisher: Old Pond Publishing
ISBN: 9781908397102
Category : Ford Transcontinental trucks
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
This is the full story of the Ford Transcontinental - affectionately known as the Transconti - a big lorry, magnificent to drive and unusual in its time for its Eaton-Fuller gear-box and a high-spec cab. The Ford Transconti nearly got it right; nearly made a profit for Ford. Never-the-less, the Transconti remains a memorable model, loved by truckers and truck enthusiasts alike. For Patrick's new book celebrating the model he has gathered over 200 photographs to show the truck in its full glory over the years and in a variety of liveries and locations. Each photograph has an extensive caption. When read together these give the complete story of the introduction, development, and decline of the model. There is extensive information on bodywork and engine specifications, the little differences that changed over time and the details which made the model so special to those who drove it. Photographs show the trucks at work abroad and there are many shots of them on the productions line. To set the Transcontinental in context, Patrick also considers the models which came before and after. Patrick's informative and friendly writing style gives the impression of sharing this story with a fellow enthusiast. The entertaining foreword is by George Bennett.

Trucks in Camera: Bedford

Author: John Reed
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781445699707
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Illustrated with more than 190 photographs, this is a pictorial history of the trucks and vans manufactured during the company's first 50 years since 1931.