ramone:
NZ JAMIE:
Being a left ■■■■■■ I wouldn’t have thought so mate. Europe,or South America,Leyland and AEC had a good following in South America.Or it was quite possable a demo truck for european shows.
Sorry Jamie i was totally oblivious to it being left hand drive,i agree it wouldn
t be SA or Australia ,im sure i`ve seen this picture before though, or 1 similar ,i bet i know a man who could shed some light on this … enter Gingerfold
No more than 5 or 6 V8 Mammoth Major 6x4 tractor units were made and possibly all of them were either show models or demonstrators. One was trialled by BRS in the UK for certain but no photos of it service with them have ever come to light…up to now. Probably two were left hand drive versions. Kev Dennis claimed to have had one of these (rhd) elusive V8 6x4 AECs for a time. Definitely a rare machine.
Great info Gingerfold mate,thanks,wow only 5 or 6,hey that’s not many and just not enough frankly. Any idea what happened to the demonstrators?
Here’s another pic of the sleeper cabbed MM6 V8
And another MM6 V8,that has been registered,could this be the BRS one?
Here’s an interesting one,you could quite easily think that this is a MM6 V8,it’s defiantly a V8 you can just see the air cleaner and it’s a High Datum cab,but look closer and you can see that the hub on the rear axle is different,it has a lazy axle fitted and of course it has a Mandator badge on the grill.
The trailer has a self steering bogie
An impressive looking unit don’t you think?
memory failing a bit on this one , i remember we went to Arlington’s to collect it and took it home on this trailer to Cambridgeshire but i cant remember the story behind it all.
Hiya…that high datum cab on a 1968 (G) reg must have been a one off or pre production. i can’nt ever remember
seeing a high cab that early. on a leyland and never on a AEC exept in books.
spot on photo’s on the MK5 4 wheeler LB.i would think she’ll pick up he feet 200bhp in a 4 wheeler in 1967.WOW.
quick question dose PLP have a high diff…thanks
John
You are right there, she would really go but was a low diff. so only 50 mph but thats fast enough for an oldie, didnt really need any gears in it but i was always concious of looking after the clutch! so i used the gearbox.
Hiya …thanks LB…my MM6 was only a 42 mph bird so i put 6,25’s diffs in her, she runs nice at 50 but’ll do over 60 IF i ever needed to.
just keeps the revs down.
John
Yes, VYE 632G was the BRS lorry. Some of the last V8 Mandators (1968/9) also had high datum cabs.
LB76:
You are right there, she would really go but was a low diff. so only 50 mph but thats fast enough for an oldie, didnt really need any gears in it but i was always concious of looking after the clutch! so i used the gearbox.
The finished article looked very impressive i bet you wouldnt have minded driving that for Wyatts if theyd bought it ,a great restoration
NZ JAMIE:
Great info Gingerfold mate,thanks,wow only 5 or 6,hey that’s not many and just not enough frankly. Any idea what happened to the demonstrators?Here’s another pic of the sleeper cabbed MM6 V8
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And another MM6 V8,that has been registered,could this be the BRS one?
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Here’s an interesting one,you could quite easily think that this is a MM6 V8,it’s defiantly a V8 you can just see the air cleaner and it’s a High Datum cab,but look closer and you can see that the hub on the rear axle is different,it has a lazy axle fitted and of course it has a Mandator badge on the grill.
The trailer has a self steering bogie
An impressive looking unit don’t you think?
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Is the last 1 a NZ or Australian motor Jamie?
Actually Ramone the one i had for Wyatt’s (GAH 900 C) was a flying machine 70 was no bother to her and it would pull fairly too, not by todays standards of course but back in the day - whoosh. I came home from Kidwelly with just the lorry loaded with frozen chuks and met my ex. father in law who was driving a dodge 4 wheeler, at the services at Oxford he was empty and i was grossing about 30 tons with just the lorry and an empty trailer we left there at the same time and i pulled up behind him before he had stopped the engine, over 100 miles thats not bad!
ramone:
NZ JAMIE:
Great info Gingerfold mate,thanks,wow only 5 or 6,hey that’s not many and just not enough frankly. Any idea what happened to the demonstrators?Here’s another pic of the sleeper cabbed MM6 V8
2
And another MM6 V8,that has been registered,could this be the BRS one?
1
Here’s an interesting one,you could quite easily think that this is a MM6 V8,it’s defiantly a V8 you can just see the air cleaner and it’s a High Datum cab,but look closer and you can see that the hub on the rear axle is different,it has a lazy axle fitted and of course it has a Mandator badge on the grill.
The trailer has a self steering bogie
An impressive looking unit don’t you think?
0
Is the last 1 a NZ or Australian motor Jamie?
Hey mate it’s a company called Waikaia Transport which is in the deep south of the South Island,NZ.
Go much further south and you’ll drop of the edge and you wont see land until Antarctica.
Is that the man, (can’t remember his christian name) ■■ Lowe who has a couple of V8 Mandators still? One was stretched into a 6x2 rigid and he was restoring it back into a tractor unit I believe.
LB76:
Actually Ramone the one i had for Wyatt’s (GAH 900 C) was a flying machine 70 was no bother to her and it would pull fairly too, not by todays standards of course but back in the day - whoosh. I came home from Kidwelly with just the lorry loaded with frozen chuks and met my ex. father in law who was driving a dodge 4 wheeler, at the services at Oxford he was empty and i was grossing about 30 tons with just the lorry and an empty trailer we left there at the same time and i pulled up behind him before he had stopped the engine, over 100 miles thats not bad!
A different breed to the ones my dad drove Bill 38 mph flat out and refused hills but its all down to engine size and gearing i suppose his was a 9.6 and 5 speed box running at 32 tons 
turbo AEC at left LEYLAND to right,pic from realicing sisu and vanaja fusion 1968