CMPs in the movies

Little Jo · #1 17-11-14, 14:42

Hi Kieth

I just finished watching the ABC Landline Program here in Penang Malaysia. I thoroughly enjoyed it. Thanks mate well put together.

Cheers

Tony

Richard Farrant · #2 18-11-14, 01:11

Hi Keith,
I watched the Landline programme earlier and thought it was excellent. Many years ago, before I ever thought I would make it out there I bought a book, which I sadly lost through lending it, which might have been called something like "Last of the Mailmen", with stories of all those doing the mail runs, absolutely fascinating. I would love to read it again since now having driven though that area several times.

regards Richard

Allan L · #3 19-11-14, 01:44

'MAIL for the Back of Beyond' by John Maddock has a good history of the Birdsville, Strzelecki etc mail runs, including the operators and their trucks.

Richard Farrant · #4 19-11-14, 02:22

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Originally Posted by Allan L

'MAIL for the Back of Beyond' by John Maddock has a good history of the Birdsville, Strzelecki etc mail runs, including the operators and their trucks.

Thanks Allan, I think that may well have been the book I once had, I recollect the cover showed an old Blitz mail truck coming over a sandhill

Bruce Parker (RIP) · #5 19-11-14, 02:50

"Escape from Iran: The Canadian Caper (1981)" is a Canadian movie about the time the Canadian embassy saved a batch of Americans when the Iranian Shaw was deposed. I don't have the movie but in the opening scenes there is a Chev 15cwt wireless van dressed up as a Iranian army truck. I know because it was my truck they used!!

Jon Skagfeld · #6 19-11-14, 16:59

Bruce...the Shah was deposed...

Bruce Parker (RIP) · #7 20-11-14, 04:06

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Originally Posted by Jon Skagfeld

Bruce...the Shah was deposed...

Shah, Smhaw. Whoever the bugger was he never shaw it coming...