Two at Peterborough Truck Feast 2015
coca cola kid:
Two at Peterborough Truck Feast 2015
They’re right-hand drive! 
There’s another good thread for those! 
Robert
Duel control but only small wheel on the left hand side !!! I think they was the plastic stick on one’s i remember having one as a kid. Would you like like me to take them down Robert.
coca cola kid:
Duel control but only small wheel on the left hand side !!! I think they was the plastic stick on one’s i remember having one as a kid. Would you like like me to take them down Robert.
No, Coca cola: they’re beautiful! After all, street-sweepers have a steering wheel on both sides. And those plastic sitck-ons were brilliant - my youngest brother had one. In my day I had to steer everything I was a passenger in with one of the buttons on my gaberdine mac! Robert 
Remember Laurent Pellier having a fair few owner drivers running transcons back in the 80s.
Advert from Truck mag 1975
Excellent contribution DEANB! Thank you. Robert
Sorry to be a pest! But I have it in my notes that at some time the LHD Transcon was available with a ■■■■■■■ NTC 335 engine. However, looking back over the threads (and my folders) I can find no evidence of this. Can any of you Ford Transcon buffs confirm one way or the other whether this engine was offered in LHD Transcons? Cheers, Robert
That’s the main trouble on TNUK allowing various similar threads or in other words no menu or template
to check before starting a new thread. On page 7 is another thread on Ford Transcontinental hence some
time ignored/neglected because another thread was more recently opened and active.
Indeed the ■■■■■■■ NTC- and NTE-series were applied. Some 8.375 chassis were manufactured, partly
in the Foden-factory and the majority in Amsterdam Hemweg
ERF-Continental:
That’s the main trouble on TNUK allowing various similar threads or in other words no menu or template
to check before starting a new thread. On page 7 is another thread on Ford Transcontinental hence some
time ignored/neglected because another thread was more recently opened and active.Indeed the ■■■■■■■ NTC- and NTE-series were applied. Some 8.375 chassis were manufactured, partly
in the Foden-factory and the majority in Amsterdam Hemweg
A good lead - thanks. This morning I remembere that I have Patrick Dyer’s excellent book on the Transcon; and sure enough, on p21 is reference to the 1975 Transcon with the Super NTC 340, which I think is Ford’s version of the 335. Robert
robert1952:
A good lead - thanks. This morning I remembere that I have Patrick Dyer’s excellent book on the Transcon; and sure enough, on p21 is reference to the 1975 Transcon with the Super NTC 340, which I think is Ford’s version of the 335. Robert
That is probably an error. On the previous page, there was discussion of engines, which included a Ford advert showing them. IIRC, the NTC335 was more or less obsolete by 1975. Ford took the NTC355, a version of which was derated to 1950 rpm, for the 308 bhp version.
Hey, if this helps, think it is here on de thread ■■?
We had de 340hp from de beginning, still together whit the for Ford prepared 15l Super 252.
Gr Eric,
Cracking pics them… Concidering the age they couldn’t be any better . I’d jump in one for a trip rite now .
I think they have a mix n match approach: Turboliner roof, “home made” roof, Scania sunvisor, “home made” grille…god knows what else there might be (OM engine underneath?).
gazzer:
I think they have a mix n match approach: Turboliner roof, “home made” roof, Scania sunvisor, “home made” grille…god knows what else there might be (OM engine underneath?).
Well spotted. Closer inspection reveals the home-made one to have a lengthways-extended cab. I wonder if it is the black one pictured earlier in this or the other Transcon thread?
That roof looks too good to be home made. Has it come off another cab? If so, what?
Sussed it! The roof on the modified Ford is home-made, but the top part of it is off a Turbostar.
Well done well spotted panel beater is worth his money … Take it they can’t afford wipers there’s 3 between em … But they could still do a job
Evening all,
Mappo, those Transcontinentals operated by the Italian Circus that visited your town, first started their Circus life with Cirque Togni. If the third one was a 6x4, with a roof conversion, (built in 1990), that really looks like a Kenworth Aerodyne, then she was new to Togni, and has only ever known Circus work. Togni ran 8 Transcontinentals, certainly up to the mid 90s, some rebuilt from sad old Italian Hire and Reward lorries, but at least three were purchased new
One of these a 4x2, with the NTC355 @ 340 hp, and a 13 speed Fuller, running to a 3.7 axle, (totally banned in Germany on the recommendation of the TUV, due to the terminal velocity approaching 103 mph)!!!..most European 4x2s ran with the 4.1, that still gave a potential 70 mph cruise, (unless you had the “little” Super 250, at 240hp net installed…Ran with a magnificent, (and I can only describe it as such), articulated caravan of 12 metres, built by Grenier, of Perigny. This had automatic pull outs, aircon, central heating, and a marble bathroom, with hi pressure hot and cold shower, a decade before the poor old Americans began to replicate such features in plastic!!!
Hi roof conversions proliferated in Europe, and many found their way onto the big Fords. One that is often referred to as a Berliet roof actually originated from the French firm Attelier Saint Catherine. But others come from Holland and Germany. My bet on the one Anorak asks about is ex DAF CF! The actual top roof measurement is very similar to the KB cab used by Ford
When Ford introduced the Transcontinental into the European market, (and she was only ever designed for Europe, no other market at all) Ford intended to take on General Motors/Bedford, and beat them into submission. The key market was Italy, then GB, then France, the Benelux, and Germany. Production target was based on 165 per month in 75, rising to 600 per month by `79/80, all from Amsterdam plant. RHD ran at circ 20% at any one time.
It is confusing when one looks at the ■■■■■■■ power plants in the Transcontinental. For they were built by ■■■■■■■■ but to a FoMo Co brief! In effect what you purchased was a simple Big Cam 14 litre, but there were small differences…and I remember the 75 launch
4 rings per piston, not 5.
Slightly altered fuel delivery system
Designated as…
Super 250, 240hp, 710lb.ft torque @ 1400rpm…4x2 34tonne…34 tonne 6x4 drawbar
NTC335E , 272hp, 940lb ft@1300 rpm…4x2 34tonne…34 tonne drawbar
NTC355E 308hp, 950lb ft@1300 rpm…Intercooled…4x2 38 tonne…38 tonne drawbar
NTC355 340hp, 1020lb ft, @1400 rpm…Intercooled…4x2 42 tonne…42, and 44 tonne tractor and drawbar available as 4x2, & 6x4.
My own recollection of the driveability of the Transcontinental was that the gap between max torque, and max power was very brief, less than 1000 revs…so you could not drive like a Maxidyne, or Maxicouple, but the temptation was to thrash…well it was for me…and fuel suffered…but mine was old and worn…(like me)!
But the battle between Henry, and the General in Europe cost both dearly, and neither gained the market supremecy that they coveted…but even today Big `Enery is a beautiful looker…and so is the big TM…all that investment, all that expertise…and still not right!!!
Im away to my Bollinger to remember those big Fords…Mappo thanks for the pictures!!
Cheerio for now
Morning all,
Gazzer, my apologies, must be my age or bifocals!
Thank you anyway
Cheerio for now.