Lorries of Arabia 3: ERF NGC. Robert Hackford

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       Lorries of Arabia 3

      Old Pond Publishing is an imprint of Fox Chapel Publishers International Ltd.

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      Vice President—Content: Christopher Reggio

      Associate Publisher: Sarah Bloxham

      Layout: David Exley, www.beamreachuk.co.uk

      Photos as credited in the text

      Copyright © 2019 by Robert Hackford and Fox Chapel Publishers International Ltd.

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      Print ISBN 978-1-912158-36-2

      eISBN 978-1-913618-16-2

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       CONTENTS

       About the Author

       Acknowledgements

       Introduction: ERF’s Long-Haul Pioneer

       Why Wasn’t a Domestic Right-Hand Drive NGC Produced?

       In Europe: King of the Mountains

       ERF, Sand & Stars: Middle East

       ERF NGCs in Art

       Late News

       Finale

       Revised ERF NGC Register

       List of NGCs on Middle East Work

       Publications in Which ERF NGCs Are Featured

       ABOUT THE AUTHOR

       (Photo: Gary Corbishley)

      Robert Hackford (born 1952) started out as a school teacher, progressing to a headship quite early on. However, mid-career he opted for a change and became a TIR driver instead. After doing Europe for a while, a trip to Turkey whetted his appetite for long-haul work and he subsequently spent a number of years driving to North Africa. He made a handful of Astran trips to the Arabian Gulf driving an Iveco Eurostar with a manual constant-mesh gearbox, as far afield as Doha in Qatar. For Robert, each new trip was an adventure with a sense of achievement at the end of it. He even ran his own unit and trailer for a while. During the ’90s he often wrote articles for the various truck magazines. Robert returned to teaching, first in Istanbul then Rome and eventually in Cairo where he served as the head of a British International School before retiring in 2014. He is the author of Lorries of Arabia: ERF NGC, published by Old Pond in 2015; and Lorries of Arabia 2: ERF NGC, published in 2016.

       ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

      Marc Van Steenbergen: Belgian haulier. Wobbe Reitsma, Hans Witte: Dutch transport historians. Rene Tanner: Swiss transport historian. Ken Broster: former general manager for Trans Arabia in Jeddah. Gary Corbishley: restorer and owner of KCH 95N. Rene Postma: erstwhile owner of the same unit. Jerry Cooke: former NGC driver and mechanic for Trans Arabia. Vince Cooke: former S Jones driver. Bill Fitzsimons: former ERF field engineer. Dave Wallace: former NGC driver for John Simmons. John Davies: mechanic for Trans Arabia. Mick Jones: Trans Arabia. Alan Rickett: ERF publicity officer. Chris Jeffries: operations manager and ex-driver at Eric Vick. Manal Maseras: transport artist. Graham Beech, Roy Mead, Pod Robinson, Adrian Cyper, ‘Chepstowechap’, Ady Goodman, Paul Gee, Gerdi Kimpe, David Pilcher, Mark Bailey, Bjorn Kjer, Ted Croswell, Stephen John Heward, Alan Ball: transport photographers.

      In particular, I wish to acknowledge Dean Bartlett, an international driver and blogging transport historian, for his tireless research efforts in support of this volume.

       (Photo: Dave Wallace)

       (Photo: Alan Rickett)