A trip down memory lane
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BACK IN THE 1970s, when I irst got an interest in trucks as an eight-year-old, I moved to Kenilworth, Warwickshire.
I met a lad at school there whose dad ran Kenilworth International Transport (KIT) with four dark blue Volvos, an F88, an F89 (pictured) and an example of each of the then new F10 and F12.
Thanks to our mutual interest in lorries we became good friends, so it was great to be reminded of the Volvo F89 in the Middle East special (CM 17 March).
As well as weekly forays into Europe, KIT regularly ran to the Middle East, usually with the F89 and F12 as they were left-hand drives and more powerful.
But as I moved onto higher education and then work, I lost contact with them. I’m fairly sure my friend was David Jackson, and his dad Peter, but I may be wrong.
I recall school holiday trips from the yard to Newport and Huddersield in the F12 – a great way to spend a day as a ten-year-old.
I’ll never forget the layout and look of that brown interior of the Mk 1 F10/F12s, with the row of cassette tapes neatly stacked in the middle.
I recently looked on Google Earth and the company’s yard on Red Lane still had trucks parked in it, but all other searches on the internet about the company have drawn a total blank.
The only surviving tangible memory I have is a tatty photo of the F12 somewhere in the desert, but I’d like to know if any readers have any memories or pictures of KIT from those days in the 1970s and 1980s?
Pip Dunn Spalding, Lincolnshire