Interesting. Again I know there is and was a plant there, but I assumed it would have built a range of engines for the UK market.
Their site says they have produced mid-range engines and engines for bus and coach etc but not for on road trucks.
Whether or not that has always been the case? But I think you may well be on the money saying they do not make large truck engines in the UK.
Iâve been there to load, i put a few engines on after a ridiculous amount of waiting time one friday afternoon.All i can remember is they werenât big engines and that i never wanted to darken their door again. The place is on the big industrial estate near Darlington .I think itâs called Yarm Rd Industrial Estate. A bit of useless information
Well I thought they were making the 14-litre NTC 335 at Shotts in the '70sâŚ
The E290 was definitely built there in large numbers.
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Cummins is still operating at Darlington they opened in the 60âs to produce the Vale series engine which wasnât a great success. They produce mid range engines for all types of operations.
Also last year they were given a cash boost and probably job and plant saving to develop future hydrogen fuelled engines.
Throaty Kenworth I guess youâll only see if your a FB member.
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You are half right, I am, and I canât. 
Iâm not and I canât.
Iâve seen a few but confess I know next to nothing about RFW (other than the comments attached);
Iâd be surprised if they built a thousand trucks. Every build was a custom job, to suit a specific task.
The Brisbane City Council commissioned an 8x8 gully sucker, with a tri-axle trailer. I believe they also built some 3208 powered coaches.
Is that cab an Inter? It looks vaguely familiar. 
No mate, they look similar to a Butterbox cab but are larger and differ in proportion.
I think I have a photo of an abandoned one, sans bullbar, at Tobamarie Station, on a different device. Iâll look tomorrow.
KW 8x4, Cummins Big Cam, 15sp RR. Right up your alley SDU, Spardo, Ramone and for all I know L_S
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What year would that be and bhp. We had the E290 big cam at 272bhp , same engine???
I bet that would be very pedestrian like Oily fully loaded. My dad had a MKV Mammoth Major 9.6 and 5 speed box 38mph flat out and they put a Dyson trailer behind it.
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Itâs the new XG (660bhp, 3200Nm, TraXon auto-manual 16spd box, blurb here. Not exclusive to AU, but not much call for it in the UK/ EU according to Commercial Motor (I can sort of understand that, but the XF @ 510bhp seemed a little underpowered to me given Volvo FM ~540, FH 600+, not that Iâm any expert nor nothing).
One of our subbies runs V8 Scanias one 730 and i think heâs got a 770 or whatever but they are all up there and itâs around 30 miles round trip on flat ground. Running at 42 - 43 tons and they all drive them like Stig Bomfist ( i canât spell his name) Overkill and expensive to run .Productivity would be an interesting read
Kenworth K143/4/5,
J steps and small headlights date it to mid '70s. When did BCs become available? Has it been repowered?
The orange suggests ex-TNT, it may have carted bricks after serving express, linehaul duties.
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Itâs mad, isnât it. Itâs all flash and dash, they wonât wonât last long. Put them in an F86 at 30ton, they wouldnât have a clue. Itâs Blomqvist BTW 