The Atkinson 'View-Line'

240 Gardner:
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:

Could be the same one 240 but it looked much tidier & cleaner than the photo - I seem to remember a short casting attached to the steering column with a switch for gear selection, but it’s a long time ago.

And no it wasn’t driven to Jeddah, it went out from Felixtowe pulling a 40ft extendable to 60ft, loaded with 2 solid tyre bogies, a steel bed for use with the bogies and two dustcarts on top, wish I’d taken a photo as it was quite a jigsaw puzzle loading it all on, and to my mind a complete waste of money :unamused: