Brand new CNG-powered Nissan Junior in diplomatic plates 64CD 🇮🇷
📍Nairobi, Kenya 🇰🇪

Well.. not quite. It's a Zamyad 24.

The Nissan Junior was the competition to the Toyota Stout. Both rear wheel drive trucks that were a step up from the Hilux and Datsun of the 60's-80's.

Production of type started in 1956. In its 3rd iteration, the Junior was made in Japan from 1970 to 1982.

Here's the cool part - Iran still produces them today, a full 43 YEARS after production ended in Japan and over 3 x longer than the run of the Japanese 3rd generation.

I wonder what role this plays in the embassy.. hopefully it's part of the commercial trade section and they are trying to sell them in Kenya!

cc @Earlsimxx

Not enough attention to the fact that Kabwe 🇿🇲 has a 50 x 50 km wide swamp where "no one lives" just 50 km west of the city.
"Despite its central location in the country, the Lukanga Swamp remains relatively inaccessible and even today government authorities in Kabwe and Lusaka have relatively little knowledge of or effect on the area."

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lukanga_S…

I was pretty excited to find this copy of the Central African Airways inflight magazine from 1963 for sale on Ebay.

It's special in the sense that this is one of, if not the final edition of the magazine for the airline as the national carrier of the Federation of Rhodesia & Nyasaland.

In 1964, Nyasaland and Northern Rhodesia became the independent nations of Malawi 🇲🇼 and Zambia 🇿🇲.. forming their own airlines as subsidiaries of CAA. In 1965, Air Rhodesia was founded as a third CAA subsidiary. Thenceforth, only the prestigious international flights from Salisbury to London and Johannesburg were operated under the Central African Airways brand. In 1967, Zambia Airways, Air Malawi and Air Rhodesia (which became Air Zimbabwe 🇿🇼 in 1980) decided to become independent of each other, and CAA was disestablished.

I will share the rest of the edition pages with commentary in the posts below. Starting out with an advert from BOAC showing their global routes makes sense.. seeing as BOAC was the big parent of this early "airline alliance"

"Central African Airways (CAA) was a member of the Quadripartite agreements with South African Airways (SAA), East African Airways (EAA) and British Overseas Airways Corporation (BOAC), thus allowing its passengers to be booked on any of the four airlines."

The Park View Hotel in Durban was operating until at least early 2024, but online booking and social media seems to have died during the course of last year. The hotel last underwent renovation in 2015, so perhaps they are just doing another one.. ?

There are a lot of Nissan Patrol firetrucks on the JDM market at the moment and they don't get enough attention.

I'm going to share one with you now, that someone on my TL... NEEDS TO BUY!

It is the best JDM deal I have EVER SEEN IN MY LIFE. 🧵 This is a 1996 Nissan Patrol Y60.. and this paint and rubber seal condition is a hint of what I'm about to show you.

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