Just one of the reasons the British products lost overall I reckon DIG, pity though, if they just had sorted those things out… who knows what would have happened…?
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Quite right Patrick
They had a bigger truck pre Super Hippo called the Buffalo powered by an Albion engine which could be super charged up to 300hp I haven’t seen one in the flesh but I think Leylands were on the right track with the last model S/Hippo with the heavy duty hub reduction rear axles and they fitted standard here a 13 speed r/r but neglected that bit that keeps truck cool then they released the Crusader here in Oz with a 8v71 series Detroit but I feel would have done better with a 300hp Rolls but they fitted Maudsley hub reduction rear axles which were unreliable we purchased 2 the second one had the Leyland hub reduction axles a far better truck but they had missed the boat.
Dig
