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Nairn Transport Company
The Nairn Transport Company was a pioneering motor transport company that operated a trans-desert route from Beirut, Haifa and Damascus to Baghdad, and back again, from 1923. Their route became known as "The Nairn Way". The firm continued, in various guises, until 1959.
==Origins==
The company was formed by Norman Nairn (1894–1968) and his brother Gerald (1897–1980) of Blenheim, New Zealand who had served under Allenby in the British Army in the Middle East during World War I. In 1905, their father had been one of the first in New Zealand to own a motor car, a Reo, and the brothers had a successful motorcycle dealership there prior to World War I.〔(The Nairn Way ) by John M. Munro and Martin Love in ''Saudi Aramco World'', July/August 1981, Vol. 32, No. 4. Retrieved 28 April 2014.〕 Among other brands, they were the sole agents for Harley-Davidson.〔("The Cadillac Versus the Camel" ) by Maurice D. Hendry in ''Veteran and Vintage Magazine'', February 1968, pp. 182-188 & p. 196. (Archived here. )〕
After the war, the brothers first traded in ex-army vehicles, then established a motor dealership in 1919 but it was not very successful and they decided to operate a taxi service between Beirut and Haifa with the cars they couldn't sell. There followed a process of experimentation with different vehicles and the brothers often came into conflict with the owners of horse-drawn vehicles to whose business they were a threat.〔 In 1920 they began a mail and passenger service between Beirut and Haifa.〔
In 1923, the British consul in Damascus, C.E.S. Palmer, asked them to examine the possibility of crossing the Syrian Desert by car.〔 Iraq was under a British League of Nations mandate at the time and a quicker route home would a great advantage to the British staff there. Plans for a rail link to the Mediterranean coast had faltered and the air route to Cairo was infrequent and expensive.〔 The Nairns also received encouragement from local traders who were using camels which were slow and liable to attack by tribesmen.〔 One was local sheik and gold smuggler Mohammad Ibn Bassam who had made trial runs of different routes using his own cars.〔
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