Magirus Deutz

UK PROFESSIONAL DRIVERS FORUMS OLD TIME LORRIES, COMPANIES AND DRIVERS (INTERACT
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Teherani:
The last maggie I had, Unloading in Riyadh SA

Some more phots of your Maggie here:
baumaschinenbilder.de/forum/ … =0&page=93

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Wheel Nut:
I just found a nice little site that tells a little bit of history of the truck and a man who sold them.

Try This

http://www.magirusdeutz.co.uk/Speziell.html

looks like an interesting site.

Thanks to Roland in advance

HI WHEEL NUT I USED TO DRIVE A MAGGIE DEUTZ ON MIDDLE EAST IN THE BEGINING OF THE 70 FOR A COMPANY CALLED JACK HARRISON TRANSPORT FROM BRIERLY HILL WEST MIDS GREAT TRUCK NEVER HAD ANY PROBS WITH IT YOUR TGJONESOO

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tgjones00:

Wheel Nut:
I just found a nice little site that tells a little bit of history of the truck and a man who sold them.

Try This

http://www.magirusdeutz.co.uk/Speziell.html

looks like an interesting site.

Thanks to Roland in advance

HI WHEEL NUT I USED TO DRIVE A MAGGIE DEUTZ ON MIDDLE EAST IN THE BEGINING OF THE 70 FOR A COMPANY CALLED JACK HARRISON TRANSPORT FROM BRIERLY HILL WEST MIDS GREAT TRUCK NEVER HAD ANY PROBS WITH IT YOUR TGJONESOO

Didn’t Jack Harrison later use Dafs, do you remember Frank who drove for him , he was quite a character !

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[zb]
anorak:
Thanks Richard. I wonder if any survive? The preservation/show scene would certainly be a bit noisier with one of those around.

R Adams from Henley in Arden have a 310 V10 in preservation. 57mph flat out, 2950rpm. You need to be a mechanically sympathetic driver not to bring on any of the aforementioned reliability problems, there’s a lot of metal moving around at that engine speed. A higher ratio diff would be a good idea.

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Teherani:
The last maggie I had, Unloading in Riyadh SA

Did you half inch the long vehicle markers off a Wilhire trailer? :smiley:

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SteveR:

[zb]
anorak:
Thanks Richard. I wonder if any survive? The preservation/show scene would certainly be a bit noisier with one of those around.

R Adams from Henley in Arden have a 310 V10 in preservation. 57mph flat out, 2950rpm. You need to be a mechanically sympathetic driver not to bring on any of the aforementioned reliability problems, there’s a lot of metal moving around at that engine speed. A higher ratio diff would be a good idea.

Maybe that one was built for heavy haulage work? I can’t imagine any 1970s general haulage vehicle being specified with such a low top speed. If my memory serves me well, the peak power speed of those engines was 2500 or 2600rpm.

The photo above shows that the Magirus’ cab was noticeably bigger than an F88 one. Considering that it was a tilt cab (like the Volvo, but unlike Mercedes, Scania and many others in 1965), it was quite advanced for its time.

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Hi, can someone fulfil my question if there has driven V12 engined maggie’s in Britain,called the 340D…
In Italy they had them too but were called the 360 ,with a little change on the injection pump for the weight limit of 44/8 HP/T.

Cheers Eric,

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Bit rusty but I think SCA was running V10’s?

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tiptop495:
Hi, can someone fulfil my question if there has driven V12 engined maggie’s in Britain,called the 340D…
In Italy they had them too but were called the 360 ,with a little change on the injection pump for the weight limit of 44/8 HP/T.

Cheers Eric,

Hi Tiptop, I asked a similar question above, but there were no answers, other than the mention of the Italian market 360s. I suspect that most of the V12s went into bonnetted 6-wheel chassis, and that most of them were military vehicles. I have never seen a magazine article, advert, brochure or specification sheet for a 340D- if you have any of those items, please post them!

Here’s some light reading for a Saturday evening: google.co.uk/#hl=en&tbo=d&sc … 99&bih=686

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Italian 360 6x2.

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baumaschinenbilder.de/forum/ … post161506
Some information on 340s here, plus some photos. Built from 1971 to 1976, so it seems. One contributor waxes lyrical about the noise!

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hallo, it was only to know if there were in Britain, we had some over here, pullers but fuelwasters.
A small company had one, they only bought high powered engined wagons for flat roads and not futher away as 60km so local work,but the load was well 25 tons.They never had a lack of drivers :laughing: :laughing:.
no doc’s too, only oil filling tables who mention them.

Cheers Eric,

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Has anybody got a pic of the later cabbed (Turbostar style) unit. Dad had, was what was supposed to be an ex motorshow Maggie unit. It was black cab with gold chassis and wheels and “A touch of class” written in gold on the front. He had it under a car transporter in around 1980/81.

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Terry Gilbert:
Has anybody got a pic of the later cabbed (Turbostar style) unit. Dad had, was what was supposed to be an ex motorshow Maggie unit. It was black cab with gold chassis and wheels and “A touch of class” written in gold on the front. He had it under a car transporter in around 1980/

Hi Terry,

Here is a pic of one of my later Maggie’s at the Science Museum warehouse in Wroughton Swindon, on my way to London for the HCVS London to Brighton commercial vehicle run. I remember seeing your Dad’s “Touch of Class” it was a show/press motor at the time.
Regards
Richard

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Was there a 360bhp version of the Iveco-cabbed Magirus? Type it into Google and all you get is models- seemingly of a vehicle that was never built!
google.co.uk/search?q=magiru … 64&bih=686

These Italians seem to have more of a clue, if you can decipher the translation:
microsofttranslator.com/BV.a … -3073.html

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Thanks Richard. Again if anybody has pics/specs…
When it got sold it got swallowed up into the Carfax fleet and painted in their colours. Shame.

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Anyone remember the Saviem 360,column gear change what a bag of ■■■■■■■■■■ time off road than on it

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[zb]
anorak:
Was there a 360bhp version of the Iveco-cabbed Magirus? Type it into Google and all you get is models- seemingly of a vehicle that was never built!
google.co.uk/search?q=magiru … 64&bih=686

These Italians seem to have more of a clue, if you can decipher the translation:
microsofttranslator.com/BV.a … -3073.html

Hey, a very late answer, At first al deutz engines were available,except the V12 for normal road transport.
The biggest was a V10 twin turbo 360hp, other were V8 turbos 290,320,330 and maybe a 340 can’t remember.
Only the 290 was used for road transport,the other more for concrete mixers and tippers.
But for haulage all deutz engines disappeared fast. And after a while the bonneted ones got a Fiat engine too.

Bye Eric,