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Two Tribes
October 28, 2021 - This is just my story about two tribes...
After I got fired from Contact Haulage (Smith & Youngson) I had to find anoth...
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The Apprenticeship
June 22, 2019 - The Apprenticeship
The system of apprenticeship was first developed in the later Middle Ages and came to be supervise...
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George and the Hippo
June 17, 2019 - The Smith & Youngson Tannoy burst into life and rang out across the yard…
"Bamba lo George Monkhouse, Bamba lo George M...
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Frogs, dogs and a cat.
June 16, 2019 - The evening started with a trip from Mimosa, which was our Smith & Youngson bachelors house eight miles South of Lusaka...
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Breakdown on the Munali Pass
April 13, 2019 - This photograph was taken by myself around 1967/68
My photograph shows a Canadian Kenworth horse coupled to a 36ft semi...
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My desire for a Velocette Thruxton was strengthened in Rhodesia
March 04, 2019 - When I was an apprentice diesel mechanic in the 1960’s a Velocette Thruxton cost around £420* which was was out of my pr...
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The Hell Run
January 26, 2019 - “The Hell Run” keeps fuel for Zambia flowing
A report made in February 1967
The main route for fuel & oil supplies was...
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The road train from Mpika and getting fired.
January 24, 2019 - I joined Smith & Youngson in October 1967 and started my life in Lusaka, Zambia working on the Canadian Kenworth Tankers...
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The Diamond Smuggler
January 20, 2019 - Dave was a quiet sort of chap, easy going but he kept himself to himself. It must have been around 1970 when he worked a...
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Kanjombe and the baffled tanker
January 19, 2019 - “I can do that Bwana Steve, let me do it please…”
Kanjombe was jumping up and down in excitement hoping for the chance...
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SNAKES ALIVE - Or how I hold the lap record at Eureka Stadium
December 01, 2018 - Eureka Speedway Stadium was located about ten miles south of Lusaka and was basically an oval track with a compacted dir...
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Coping with a foreign language in Zambia.
November 30, 2018 - When I first arrived in 1967 to work on Kenworth Trucks at Smith & Youngson in Lusaka, I was called into the Forman's of...
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