Trev_H:
I went one day to the MIRA test track to fit a new power steering pump to an Scania LB110, it was hooked up to an air suspension trailer (very rare in those days) carrying similar concrete test weights to the photo above, with the job done a real elderly gent in a white coat asked if I would like to go with him on the test track.Yes I wouldn’t mind a tour round.
I was absolutely terrified ! this lunatic took a 45 degree bend at 60mph plus fully freighted without easing up, I couldn’t believe the angle the cab was at when we next hit a cobblestone section and then on to a slalom course, at the end of the circuit he got out casually and said yes it seems fine now…I wasn’t !
Trev_H:
I went one day to the MIRA test track to fit a new power steering pump to an Scania LB110, it was hooked up to an air suspension trailer (very rare in those days) carrying similar concrete test weights to the photo above, with the job done a real elderly gent in a white coat asked if I would like to go with him on the test track.Yes I wouldn’t mind a tour round.
I was absolutely terrified ! this lunatic took a 45 degree bend at 60mph plus fully freighted without easing up, I couldn’t believe the angle the cab was at when we next hit a cobblestone section and then on to a slalom course, at the end of the circuit he got out casually and said yes it seems fine now…I wasn’t !
Hi Trev. Wasn’t this one, was it?
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It used to live at Mira.
Yes that would be the motor, I don’t know how it survived after the treatment it had there !
Hello all, Chris is building up quite a nice Scania collection, 110 right through to an I.O.M. registered T143, something to drive in retirement? Cheerio for now.
john.nicholls:
I would give my right arm to be able to sit down and read all the old Headlight Mags if only i had kept all mine from the first one i bought which i think was 1967
You might find a few advertised on Ebay now and then John, lots of different magazines get put on there.
Trev_H:
I went one day to the MIRA test track to fit a new power steering pump to an Scania LB110, it was hooked up to an air suspension trailer (very rare in those days) carrying similar concrete test weights to the photo above, with the job done a real elderly gent in a white coat asked if I would like to go with him on the test track.Yes I wouldn’t mind a tour round.
I was absolutely terrified ! this lunatic took a 45 degree bend at 60mph plus fully freighted without easing up, I couldn’t believe the angle the cab was at when we next hit a cobblestone section and then on to a slalom course, at the end of the circuit he got out casually and said yes it seems fine now…I wasn’t !
If you want a really scary ride then a lap or two of the Alpine Course at Chobham wit the blokes who test the Dennis fire engines will definitely have you holding on and pressing imaginary brake pedals
Trev_H:
I went one day to the MIRA test track to fit a new power steering pump to an Scania LB110, it was hooked up to an air suspension trailer (very rare in those days) carrying similar concrete test weights to the photo above, with the job done a real elderly gent in a white coat asked if I would like to go with him on the test track.Yes I wouldn’t mind a tour round.
I was absolutely terrified ! this lunatic took a 45 degree bend at 60mph plus fully freighted without easing up, I couldn’t believe the angle the cab was at when we next hit a cobblestone section and then on to a slalom course, at the end of the circuit he got out casually and said yes it seems fine now…I wasn’t !
If you want a really scary ride then a lap or two of the Alpine Course at Chobham wit the blokes who test the Dennis fire engines will definitely have you holding on and pressing imaginary brake pedals
There must be a story somewhere regarding the Scammell on the cobble stone street in Shaftesbury. I was walking up it a couple of months ago and wondered how the horses would have managed let alone motorised vehicles. Incidentally, that street in Shaftesbury (SW England) was used for the Hovis advert ‘up North’ with the baker pushing his bike. It struck me as bizarre, it’s not as though there is a shortage of hills and streets up North!!!
If anyone could post the story, it would be great, cheers.
Chris Webb:
We can’t have your thread on page two Bubbs…here’s a photo of a motor I drove regularly when I started with A E Evans…
The photo very kindly sent to me by Cattle Wagon Man.
Chris,is that registration correct a H registered mkv ?
Hiya i never noticed the h reg plate…in the 60/70s if you’d built a bitsa it could be registered. the Q plate had’nt appeared
and age related plate was’nt thought of.people usually had a old log book that would do, in this case the plateing system had
come about, the configureation had changed, PLUS the jobs worth may have just been invented, saying you must register it as a unit.
I have a triumph bonniville thats a 1965 it went to the states and come back in 69 thats on a H reg 1969.
and a 72 honda on a Y reg. stupid or what.
John
what2do71:
There must be a story somewhere regarding the Scammell on the cobble stone street in Shaftesbury. I was walking up it a couple of months ago and wondered how the horses would have managed let alone motorised vehicles. Incidentally, that street in Shaftesbury (SW England) was used for the Hovis advert ‘up North’ with the baker pushing his bike. It struck me as bizarre, it’s not as though there is a shortage of hills and streets up North!!!
If anyone could post the story, it would be great, cheers.
I think there was an article on this unit in Truck/supertruck early 80s.
The owner was running to Spain/Portugal and was singing the praises of aerodynamics after fitting the cab deflector and sleeper on an ex Findus unit?
Think he was based in deepest Wiltshire.
