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!

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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