Twoninety88:
Dieseldogsix:
did you ever go in a F88 with twin bunks, bloody awful.Hmm quite!
I bought a top bunk for my 88 ,slid in it sideways, couldnt tilt your head up to see what the time was it was that tight a fit!
Now you know how a submariner has to kip !!
I grew up in AECs, other than a Scammell Highwayman my Dads depot had nothing else. This is the first wagon I ever drove on my own, after doing a fair bit sat on the old mans lap, thought I was a big tough lorry driver turning that wheel until I looked down 1 day & saw dads hands slyly shuffling the wheel to help! They had the ARC contract in Oxfordshire for all there Derv/Gas Oil, used to drive that olg girl for miles across the gravel pits from tank to tank. Great old motors, & no the sleeper cab might not have been the last word in comfort, but I know I have slept in worse!! Spiers of Melksham had loads of them, a lot of them were ex-Amoco petrol units, Spiers used to buy them to break, or they would pick the best ones & graft a sleeper on it.
I Have been in contact with Bradys Fleet Engineer and the white Mandator with EO trade plates is not the one Bradys owned the cab of the one Bradys had was much higher and if you look on the picture from behind shot it looks like its got a PTO on the gear box something which bradys didnt He does not know why its on Bradys trade plates. Hes got a picture of the Brady Ice Cream Truck somewhere so I will try and get it on here.
Regards Steve.
found this in old commercial motor -alan
revman:
I wonder how that got on in the heat of the middle east with the overheating problems the AEC V8 was known to haveā ā ?
Ross.
bigr250:
revman:
I wonder how that got on in the heat of the middle east with the overheating problems the AEC V8 was known to haveā ā ?
Ross.
Perhaps it broke down in Belgium on the way out, so they never found out! 
240 Gardner:
bigr250:
revman:
I wonder how that got on in the heat of the middle east with the overheating problems the AEC V8 was known to haveā ā ?
Ross.
Perhaps it broke down in Belgium on the way out, so they never found out!
Sounds about right 
unless that roof was filled with water alan
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240 Gardner:
bigr250:
revman:
I wonder how that got on in the heat of the middle east with the overheating problems the AEC V8 was known to haveā ā ?
Ross.
Perhaps it broke down in Belgium on the way out, so they never found out!
Sounds about right
Iāve aired the tale before, but I used to work with someone whoād worked as an apprentice at a Leyland dealership in Lancashire. They recovered a brand new V8 Mandator off the M6 one day, northbound from Bristol to Scotland. It belonged to either Western Transport or Western Freight in Bristol, whichever had the V8s. It was a couple of days whilst they acquired and fitted a new engine.
A day or two later, they recovered a broken-down V8 from the southbound carriageway of the M6ā¦ Yep, another new engine!!
Now, Iāve never driven one, but Iām told that an AEC V8 with all its problems ironed out was actually a very nice machine to drive, but it seemed to share the production quality or development issues that also beset its Group stablemate, the V8 Triumph from the Stag. All the problems nicely sorted out years later, and long after production had finished!
Didnāt the V8 mandators have a habit of breaking crankshafts ? they must have sorted them in later years as I knew of a couple of firms that seemed to have trouble free miles from them.