michel:
An East German Beaver ready with a load of Christmas trees.
Great pic! What I want to know is what gearbox would have been supplied with these export LAD-cabbed LHD Beavers? And were they synchro- or constant-mesh? And the engine: I assume they must have been 0.680s. Robert
I refer the esteemed poster Robert to either my Leyland Beaver or Leyland Octopus book for the Leyland gearbox options.
In NZ heavy LAD and Ergo Leylands,Octopus’,Hippos and Beavers here were fitted with Leyland six speed with a splitter constant mesh gear boxes giving ten speeds. I’m not 100% but I don’t think you can split crawler or overdrive? Thus giving you ten not twelve cogs. Some were fitted with close ratio six speed boxes,which also had the splitter. These were a twin stick box,requiring a fair bit of skill with two hand gear changes.
680 Power Plus’ were fitted as standard,with turbo 690’s being fitted from the early 70’s. 13 speed Fullers were offered in Aussie built Leylands,some of which were imported here.
Spot on NZ Jamie. 
Thanks lads! 
Robert
ERF Lover:
Hi all,Just thought I would start a thread about Leyland Lorries for themselves
Others seem to have their own so why not Leyland?Here is a start.
Hope people will contribute?
A few to jog the old grey matter, from my collection
Barry/Gloves
Question.Did W&G Taylor have the ERF Agency by any chance in the 90s, ?, Regards Larry.
Lawrence Dunbar:
Question.Did W&G Taylor have the ERF Agency by any chance in the 90s, ?, Regards Larry.
Only remember W&G Taylor having spares and repairs for ERF, no sales of complete trucks as such
Barry
No doubt there will be someone out there who knows for sure
ERF Lover:
Hi all,Just thought I would start a thread about Leyland Lorries for themselves
Others seem to have their own so why not Leyland?Here is a start.
Hope people will contribute?
Few Leylands from the North from my collection, sorry if you have seen them on other Trucknet sites tho
Barry/Gloves
Bonneted in Israel.
I’m sure I posted a photo of the Bison I bought from Malta on here about a year or so ago, anyway for those who aren’t sick of the sight of it on Facebook and are interested to see what’s been done, here it is now. All 3 axles changed back to something more original, with new bushes, seals, linings etc… still a long way to go!
This was our Fleet in 1973ish in Derby top of Western Aus, the Mastiff was V8 Perkins power the Super Hippo had a RR the Crusaders V8 71 series Detroits and the Albion a 400 Leyland,Cattle and general freight around the west Kimberly our business. the Crusader was crossing the Isdell river on the Gibb river road a little before Outback Truckers arrived to show us how its done. lol
Cheers Dig
Wonder if you could hear the radio without turning the engine off. 
0.600 engine, I would have thought: the Spanish tended to go for the bigger engines for all those hills. Robert
altitude:
Wonder if you could hear the radio without turning the engine off.
It seems you guessed my thoughts! In the early 80s, I had a 1969 Unic P 200 fitted with a 8 litres 6-cylinder engine (output 200 bhp at 2600 rpm). Its short-ratio transmission allowed it only 80 kph (50 mph) with the engine at maximum speed. It was totally deafening, and a great relief when the day of work was over, sometimes after 700 kms. It had a radio, but I udes it only when resting or waiting.
Hi Froggy’ Great photo of a preserved Leyland Super Beaver, not a Hippo, that is the six wheeled version and yes it would have had the 0/600 engine fitted then with 0/680 models coming along a couple of years or so later.
Cheers, Leyland 600
