Jazzandy:
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OHS LHD Seddons.(1977)
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I hate to be pedantic but in fact I ordered these trucks direct from Seddon Atkinson. They were specked by Orhan Sertel, the owner of OHS. Peter Martin was a good friend and was marketing manager of OHS until his untimely and sudden death. He supplied the publicity which is why they used his name. SA even arranged the paint jobs which was quite unusual in those days and I managed to screw up the colour on the first one which was Royal Blue instead of the standard much lighter Orient colour.
Not pedantry at all old mate: and Happy New Year to you! You did the right thing! 
Handed during 1974’ Amsterdam-Show by Hocké Of Holland.
Remarkable is the questionaire to be returned on what the visitor/prospect (dis-)liked on the Seddon.
Notice: still no mentioning of Atkinson as the mariage then was definite and IHC (International Harvester
Company of Chicago) had the majority of the stoch-shares.
Folder was in CDB-archives
SA400
I know it’s some time now since I last drove a SA400 (RHD) – it was for a couple of weeks back in September 1986; but I’ve always remembered the Fuller RTO 9509 shift change pattern in that unit as U-shaped (as opposed to H-shaped) as is normal with the RTO ‘box. But I don’t remember it as being upside-down as well! Though to be fair, I was already familiar with this pattern in the Mercedes 1626 with its ZF 12-sp ‘box and you did get used to it so long as you weren’t hopping in and out of several different makes of lorry in a week.
However, this SA400 driver’s manual advertised online recently quite clearly shows an upside-down U-shaped arrangement as its standard fitment. As you can see from the photo, this appears to have been the norm. On a later page in the same manual it shows that they appear to have installed the David Brown 8-speed option upside-down as well! The second photo shows an actual SA400 pattern plate which supports the manual.
I do remember that it was a poor installation and very clunky compared with the likes of ERF, Foden, MAN and even DAF (which was also poor). SA designed what was convenient for them. It’s tempting to believe that the driver was presumably not regarded as a customer, but it was SA’s ‘no holes through the floor’ policy that drove the decision, apparently. Meanwhile, ERF was matching the same box to the same engine without installing it upside-down.
