LHD Scammell Crusaders

[Davidoff]

Terry and his missus actually stayed in the maxi that night, the Scammell being a single bunk cabin.
Like the famous Citroen DS and a few other cars, the maxi's front backrests could be reclined and thus offered a more or less crude bed.

Personnally I was glad i had a proper bunk with night heater

[Davidoff]

Two scrumptious representatives of the British Leyland Group, don't you think???

[Davidoff]

That's it for now.

Good evening to all
David

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Two scrumptious representatives of the British Leyland Group, don't you think???

Two representatives of English engineering indeed, nice to see that there's still someone out there who's interested in keeping an Austin Maxi on the road...

[robert1952]

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Two scrumptious representatives of the British Leyland Group, don't you think???

Two representatives of English engineering indeed, nice to see that there's still someone out there who's interested in keeping an Austin Maxi on the road...

I actually liked the Maxi and ran four in succession! The 5-speed 'box was still a bit of a novelty then and the room in a Maxi was phenomenal at that time. The 1750 transverse engine was up to the job, even if it did piss oil all over everyone else's forecourts Robert

[Davidoff]

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Two scrumptious representatives of the British Leyland Group, don't you think???

Two representatives of English engineering indeed, nice to see that there's still someone out there who's interested in keeping an Austin Maxi on the road...

Terry is a very dedicated owner and restorer. Believe it or not, I think his latest addition is an Austin PRINCESS in reasonably good nick, at least she is very restorable apparently. No pictures available just yet but I guess that will come in due course.
Terry is a prolific, talented and dedicated restorer / collector.

And the plan is that we once again have our reunion at Locomotion next year June. If any of you can make the trip from the UK, I can only recommend it. A great atmosphere indeed.

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Two scrumptious representatives of the British Leyland Group, don't you think???

Two representatives of English engineering indeed, nice to see that there's still someone out there who's interested in keeping an Austin Maxi on the road...

Terry is a very dedicated owner and restorer. Believe it or not, I think his latest addition is an Austin PRINCESS in reasonably good nick, at least she is very restorable apparently. No pictures available just yet but I guess that will come in due course.
Terry is a prolific, talented and dedicated restorer / collector.

And the plan is that we once again have our reunion at Locomotion next year June. If any of you can make the trip from the UK, I can only recommend it. A great atmosphere indeed.

A princess??? Thought they were all scrapped mate
Shows proper determination though, to get it in better condition then when they left the factory...come to think of it, it's probably not all that difficult since most of them came out in quite a state already

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Two scrumptious representatives of the British Leyland Group, don't you think???

Two representatives of English engineering indeed, nice to see that there's still someone out there who's interested in keeping an Austin Maxi on the road...

I actually liked the Maxi and ran four in succession! The 5-speed 'box was still a bit of a novelty then and the room in a Maxi was phenomenal at that time. The 1750 transverse engine was up to the job, even if it did piss oil all over everyone else's forecourts Robert

That was just a neat feature Robert, to see where you've been and where you were heading to...quite clever lads back in the day
What was the one with the hydraulic suspension? Marina?

[gazzer]

Geeky moment:The Maxi FTR(TR) is a Southampton registration number with the car probably supplied from Wrynhams at Stag Gates (traffic lights coming out of Southampton city centre). The BL dealer changed hands several times with famous names in the trade, Kenning, Sparshatts...but then again Wrynams had a Romsey depot too that would have used a TR registration as well. Geek over!

[robert1952]

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Great thread, takes me back to my youth. These tractors paired up with the Crane Fruehauff trailers had a 35 Ton payload, all up weights at maximum payload must have been well over 50 Tons. We used to move construction plant and machines and anything else heavy, apart from Battle tanks from the docks at Antwerp up to Units in Germany on a regular basis.

Great memories, can't believe we did all that as a bunch of kids in our late teens or early twenties. Happy times!

MickM

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Crusader in Russia. Robert

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And an impressive example it is too! Robert

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Just bumping this up to chime with the general Crusader thread that's at the top of the page now, with reference to my question regarding any examples of 6x4 Crusaders with 9-sp rather than 15-sp Fuller 'boxes.

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Good evening Robert

Both the two CRusaders I drove while at Pickfords Heavy Haulage in the early 1980s were LHD, and were not ex-military.

I remember feeling I had become "king of the road" driving them at just 21 years old!!

Ed

Whoops! A few years late, but thanks EDTRUCK for that vital piece of information, and its correction of my initial post that launches the thread. God knows how I missed it but I was just trawling back for gearbox info when I spotted your post. Cheers old mate! R

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Just bumping this up to chime with the general Crusader thread that's at the top of the page now, with reference to my question regarding any examples of 6x4 Crusaders with 9-sp rather than 15-sp Fuller 'boxes.

I notice that I never followed this up on this thread. Just to cross-ref with the main Crusader thread, then: DEANB posted an article which showed that RHD/LHD 6x4 Crusaders in the British military were fitted with 15-sp Fullers if they were on heavy work (tank-transporters etc), but were fitted with 9-sp Fullers if ordered for lighter duties. ie there are probably quite a number of 6x4s with RT(0) 9505(A)s floating about!

Oddly enough, I actually have that article filed away but had never noticed the closing paragraphs with this info. Here's the link to the thread page with the article:

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Rowena

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This LHD one is intriguing because it has such a late number plate and was probably built for civvy street, not ex-army. Love the livery! Anyone know what spec it was?

[Steevo]

This LHD one is intriguing because it has such a late number plate and was probably built for civvy street, not ex-army. Love the livery! Anyone know what spec it was?

Very distinctive livery, would have thought someone would recognise it!

[Franglais]

Left-hooker, if the mirrors are anything to go by! (NMP)

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Link to a more recent pic https://images.app.goo.gl/eRLeYNPCdQ63qkLz9

[robthedog]

Left-hooker, if the mirrors are anything to go by! (NMP)

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Link to a more recent pic https://images.app.goo.gl/eRLeYNPCdQ63qkLz9

RHD Then

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Left-hooker, if the mirrors are anything to go by! (NMP)

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Link to a more recent pic https://images.app.goo.gl/eRLeYNPCdQ63qkLz9

RHD Then

Exactly! I've transferred it to the other thread.

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I’ve always been a huge fan of Crusaders. I’ve been reluctant to declare it on here, partly because I felt that tilting cabs were a pre-requisite for ‘modern’ trucking. However, I just love this over-engineered beast with its Eagle 3 Rolls engine and Fuller ‘box. The 10-sp & related 15-sp ‘box were available in the earlier 220 Rolls versions and in the heavy haulage 305-powered 6x4s.

But the more modern and flexible 9-sp Fuller were standard on the 4x2 RHD versions with a 280 bhp RR Eagle and optional on both RHD and LHD versions of both the civilian and military versions of the 6x4 Crusader with the RR Eagle 305 engine.

They were pretty spartan inside compared with the ERF European NGC with the same Motor Panels cab (which tilted, by the way), but I would love to run one down to the Mediterranean and back for a one-off trip.

BRS obviously thought highly of them, or they wouldn’t have commissioned them in the first place. Nor would the British armed services, who used them for many years.
Wonderful lorries IMHO!

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Posted on the other Crusader thread this evening by Anorak. As he suggests, judging from the TIR plate it was probably an aircraft refueller destined for the Gulf and delivered overland. He draws our attention to the LHD and the west-coast style mirrors.

Rowena

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