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Solved: BPQ #060 - Rolls Royce coach, Taurus Express, Nusaybin - Kirkuk
« on: October 28, 2022, 06:08:43 AM »
Not a lot is known about this bus.
Chassis and route will be enough to earn a point.
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Re: BPQ #060
« Reply #1 on: November 21, 2022, 03:54:00 AM »
Experts?
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Re: BPQ #060
« Reply #2 on: November 21, 2022, 05:35:03 AM »
Nairn Brothers' desert bus with a Safeway chassis on the Damascus-Baghdad route?
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Re: BPQ #060
« Reply #3 on: November 21, 2022, 05:48:04 AM »
As far as I know it does not belong to Narin brothers. But the place is correct.
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Re: BPQ #060
« Reply #4 on: November 21, 2022, 05:53:25 AM »
A Renault chassis?
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Re: BPQ #060
« Reply #5 on: November 21, 2022, 06:09:33 AM »
No.
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Re: BPQ #060
« Reply #6 on: November 21, 2022, 06:24:32 AM »
It it a Cadillac chassis? 
I know the Nairn company used them but I don't think they were six wheelers
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Re: BPQ #060
« Reply #7 on: November 21, 2022, 07:03:55 AM »
Not a Cadillac and I think not Narin.
I am not 100% sure in source.
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Re: BPQ #060
« Reply #8 on: November 21, 2022, 12:55:27 PM »
I found the picture in a 1927 article on the Nairn Transport Company and their desert bus service from Beirut to Baghdad via Damascus  It said their first six wheelers were made by the Six-Wheeler Company of Philadelphia.  Is that the name you are looking for?
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Re: BPQ #060
« Reply #9 on: November 21, 2022, 01:30:51 PM »
BattlePorQ,
I've sent you a message with a link to the article.
« Last Edit: December 19, 2022, 06:04:22 PM by D-type »
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Re: BPQ #060
« Reply #10 on: December 13, 2022, 04:59:58 PM »
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Re: BPQ #060
« Reply #11 on: February 24, 2023, 11:49:36 AM »
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Re: BPQ #060
« Reply #12 on: June 02, 2023, 08:49:23 AM »
Rolls Royce providing the connection on the sections without rail networks of the Taurus-Express.
I don't know if BattlePorQ is still active on autopuzzles???
« Last Edit: June 02, 2023, 08:51:42 AM by BERTRAND »
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Re: BPQ #060
« Reply #13 on: June 02, 2023, 08:55:41 AM »
BattlePorQ hasn't logged in since January.  :(
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Re: BPQ #060
« Reply #14 on: June 02, 2023, 08:58:42 AM »
what's going on with his puzzles in progress
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Re: BPQ #060
« Reply #15 on: November 19, 2023, 06:52:11 AM »
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What can be done about puzzles left behind when people leave the forum for whatever reason?
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Re: BPQ #060
« Reply #16 on: November 20, 2024, 06:14:13 PM »
Quote from: BERTRAND on June 02, 2023, 08:49:23 AM
Rolls Royce providing the connection on the sections without rail networks of the Taurus-Express.
I don't know if BattlePorQ is still active on autopuzzles???
I've located a source that confirms your answer. Apparently this was a Roll Royce coach provided by Le Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits for the stage of the Taurus Express journey between Nusaybin and Kirkuk, which was without rail. I'm awarding you the point and marking this one as 'solved.'
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