Spardo:
Froggy55:
Once more, a very typical and interesting picture of the sixties! I think the M2 was the firts serie of Berliet trucks fitted with hydraulic power steering. The “M” (1950-61) had an air operated, assistance manufactured by Jourdain-Monneret, if I’m right.Surprising that it had power steering, Froggy, given the size of that steering wheel.
I thought it would be a case of blip the throttle at the same time as tugging one side of the wheel
in a tight slow turn situation.
I don’t know about French regulations but German regs said that trucks had to have large steering wheels incase of power steering failure which was why Mercs and MAN were fitted with large wheels. I don’t know when that ‘law’ was instigated though.
Pete.