I saw Moo-Trains Magnum today.
removalboy:
I saw Moo-Trains Magnum today.0
theres another magnum on fleet now paul has got it that used to have a ssc daf looks smart got durab.rites , top bar and headboard.s are you going truckfest in fortnight?if so come and find me and say hello i drive Y200WAY FH . 
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removalboy:
I saw Moo-Trains Magnum today.0theres another magnum on fleet now paul has got it that used to have a ssc daf looks smart got durab.rites , top bar and headboard.s are you going truckfest in fortnight?if so come and find me and say hello i drive Y200WAY FH .
Me and my dad will be there, i will look out for you.
any more old Devon company photos out there
Some of these could have already been mentioned but I remember these subbies we used from down yonder:-
Hottot Bovey Tracey
Brian Harris Okehampton
John Trant Plymouth
Griggs Exeter
Torbay Trans
Smythes Barnstaple
Harris and Miners (were they Widdecombe in the Moor?)
Chard and Axminster
Gregorys
Stofords
Appleby Westward (was that the Spar people?)…I’ll think of some others
MolePower:
quality mp ! i have the very same photo in my collection!!!
WONDER IF GREGORYS STILL HAVE THIS IN THE CORNER SOME WHERE
RTA 205 H was restored a few years ago by a good friend of mine Steve Gray. Here it is at gaydon in 2005, Bernie.
Forgot to say it is in Scotland now I think.
hayday:
John Trant Plymouth
Gri
John Trant (from near Kingsbridge) packed up a few years back now, just does a bit of market gardening and selling plants from the yard…the gate used to be an old bus driven across the entrance
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MolePower:
quality mp ! i have the very same photo in my collection!!!
really ? is it an original ? i ask this because a friend gave it to me with others to scan in .
he’d sent some pics into a truck mag years ago & as well as his own that were posted back to him this came back with them, although he didn’t take it & has no idea who’s it is !
sorry double post 
STRAIGHT EIGHT:
The Gardner in that Sed-Atki is a 15.5litre 6LYT 320, the early ones were really unreliable (which is pretty unheard of with Gardners), but at the time of building the new-range of engines the firm was up forsale when parent company Hawker Siddley wanted out, so very little funding in design and research plagued it with reliability problems. Perkins bought Gardner and the problems with the LYT were sorted out, but by that time is was to late, the Engine had now got a bad name and couple that to the huge premium the makers were sticking on the price of a Gardner engine, Perkins stopped production. It was a great shame as the big Gardner LYT was such a promising engine, when it worked well it would pull like a train, had excellent economy, and was lighter than any of the comparable engines of that size and power.
Although badged as a 320, most of these engines were actually 350 which was just a small adjustment of pump and eventually Gardner had intended to Intercool this engine for outputs of 420 and above. Only a couple of intercooled 6LYT’s were made and were called LG420i’s, both went into boats i believe.
Its funny to think that if things had been a bit different you might’ve been able to by an 09-plate ECT Olyimpic with a 550 Gardner!!!Saddly, Gardner, like so many other famous makers of the british lorry industry, has been consigned to the History books, AND IT MAKES ME SO ANGRY WITH THIS ONCE GREAT COUNTRY
Repeating myself here but i had a Foden on a D plate with a Gardner 320 and that pulled very well and i cant ever remember it breaking down , i thougt it was a great motor