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An overland trans-desert bus service between Beirut, Haifa, Damascus and Baghdad was established by the Nairn Transport Company of Damascus in 1923; the Nairn brothers had established a Beirut to Haifa service in 1920. The closure of the Lebanese-Israeli border makes no buses travel to Haifa any more.
In 1952, Nairn took delivery of a number of two-axle Studebaker 2R tractor units. During WW2, New Zealand troops occupying Syria were free to use Nairn’s bus service between Damascus and Bagdad. It ran twice a week at the cost of £18 sterling for the return trip. [4] Each bus could carry 18 passengers and by 1958 had travelled 2 million ...
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Back in 1845, Austria may in fact have set up the first foreign post office in Beirut, although the exact date is unconfirmed. Russia inaugurated its own in 1857, Britain in 1873, and Germany in 1900. Although imperial attention focused on Beirut, France opened in Tripoli a second post office in September 1852, [6] followed by Austria and ...
Tesla says the Roadster will accelerate to 60 mph in 1.9 seconds and to 100 mph in 4.2 seconds. It also says the triple-motor, all-wheel-drive car will complete a quarter-mile sprint in 8.8 ...
Commuter service between Dora and Byblos ceased in 1993 and the last regular rail operations in Lebanon—trains carrying cement from Chekka to Beirut—ended in 1997. [12] The Polish diesel locomotive class SP45 for this line continued to be run once a month at the Furn el Shebbak stockyards as late as 2002, [12] but service was not resumed.
Then, a Saudi delegation headed by the kingdom’s envoy, Prince Yazid bin Farhan, flew into Beirut for the second time in a week. It held a blitz of meetings with various political parties. By ...
Tesla's new updated Model Y is now available to order in the US, Canada, UK, and mainland Europe. The refreshed Model Y was first launched in China earlier in January.. Tesla's sales fell for the ...