GUY Big J 8LXB Tractor Unit

Bewick:

ERF-NGC-European:

Carryfast:

ERF-NGC-European:
you couldn’t be wronger on that point if you tried, CF! I’ve run old bangers most of my life and I spent many happy hours reading through the small ads in the local rags ( or Adscene). Likewise, I was well aware of how each word counts along with the pennies. I was frequently appalled at the money people wasted on long-winded unnecessary verbiage in their small ads. Dave Docwra is right: you need to ask the bloke who wrote the ad, not second-guess his motives, his aptitude for succinct copy or his colloquial usage. Drop the bone, Rover! Oh, lordy I’ve gone and mentioned Rover. We’ll get the 3500 P4 and the P5 thrown in now. What have I done Ro

Fair enough Robert.At least it’s a better discussion than Bewick just saying it’s a misprint it should say 180.

By the way, the only Big-J I ever drove was on yard shunting duties with an ex-BOC unit. It had a 180 Gardner, 6-sp DB box and no power steering because apparently it was a cancelled export order! My last Rover was a P4 Btw, loved 'em! Ro

Are you sure that the Big J had the DB box and not the Thorneycroft 6 speed which was the standard fitting in the Big J & 180 LXB ? Cheers Bewick.

No Bewick, I’m not sure! It was very early '80s, when I knew a lot less about what 'boxes went with what lorries.I recorded it in my driver’s diary as a 6-sp box. I would then have gone home and looked up what Big-Js had by way of 6-sp transmission, blissfully unaware in those days that certain engine/gearbox combinations were the norm. So I’ll bet you are right! As I never got it out on the road I can’t report on its performance but it was deffo not synchomesh. Anyone on here who drove for BOC Transhield out of the Oare depot in Faversham in the '70s should be able to testify one way or the other. It was the shunter at A&RJ Woods at Teynham when I drove it. It’s reg was TKO 467S (the late ‘S’ - long after Big-Js finished, reflects that it was a cancelled order batch). Here’s a pic I took after I had parked it. Not very clear I’m afraid.
Ro.

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