PAUL GEE's PHOTO COLLECTION (Part 1)

HRS:
HOLLIS transport started trading just south of reading on a small farm unit.
Moved into Reading with a new contract and bought 3 little F86 tractors from me, big step up from the D800 range.
Not to many years later got gobbled up by a big fish, Q&A if I remember right. wow that pic brought back a few memories, thanks Dean.

Thanks again Dean, Paul for all the pics and a great thread, to do what you do and still drive a truck is amazing, happy Christmas to all. Harvey

Hollis had a Leyland Terrier with a Luton body which we serviced, it had water in the sump (the usual liner seal problem, though not so common on the 98 series engines with twin seals in the block instead of a single one like the older 5.1/5.7 engines) so I fitted new liners etc. A few days later it came back with water in the oil again! Thinking I had split a seal it was stripped again but nothing visual was found. So it was rebuilt again but the sump was left off and sure enough water was weeping slowly from a liner. Took it apart yet again and a torch and mirror showed a blowhole actually in the seal groove in the block casting. A new short engine cured it! In all my years working on BMC wet liner engines that was the only such case I came across.

Pete.