whisperingsmith:
My agent in Jeddah sent his son over to the UK around 1976 with a big wodge of cash to buy Units, trailers, dustcarts & heavy haulage kit.I took him down to Joe Sullivans in Havant where amongst the kit he bought there was a 4x2 ex Pickfords ballast box Viewline
I don’t remember the engine, I think it was a ■■■■■■■ but could have been RR, but I do remember it had an Allinson pre-select gearbox.It wasn’t too bad a drive for a British built motor and the first & only time I ever played at reversing a trailer on a bar, what fun
I don’t think it lasted long in Jeddah as I never saw it in their yard whenever I visited
There is a photo on Flickr, perhaps of the same one, in Sullivans yard - the most unlikely motor to take to Jeddah!! Surely it wasn’t driven out there too??
It had a 220 ■■■■■■■ and a 10-speed Self Changing Gears (“Wilson”) gearbox, semi-auto rather than pre-select, and was one of a batch of nine built for Pickfords. The motor in question was AMH 539H, and there’s a photo, with text, here: