New engine for GUY big J any one got a photo of the engine sticking out the back ?. 
V8Bluebottle:
Four Merlins.
I was one of 400 official attendees on that day on the West side of the dam.
Bloody hell was it good.
Ken.
Quinny:
V8Bluebottle:
Four Merlins.I was one of 400 official attendees on that day on the West side of the dam.
Bloody hell was it good.
Ken.
Merlin’s are great, but when it comes to truck engines, the old Iveco V8 through straight pipes allows you to forget the crap it was installed in. An Atki Borderer with a 6LXB is also a pleasing sound, too.
quinny your dead right we owe them so much bless em all regards rowland
slightly off thread , but i shall be going over the road to an old friend at 11am . he’s 94 now and did 32 trips in wellingtons and lancs . it always reduces him to tears when they play the last post , he thinks of his mates that didn’t make it back . most of the time he will only talk about the good bits , but today always gets him down , brings back the memories . dave
I watched a Lancaster Bomber flying up out of the Severn valley at Llanidloes a few years ago.It was very impressive and the sound of those Merlin engines was awesome.
Cheers Dave.
rward:
quinny your dead right we owe them so much bless em all regards rowland
hi rowly
you have hit the nail on the head there mate,heroe’s all.
regards andrew.
any truck with ■■■■■■■ big cam and jake
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hiya,
That’s them Chris, long gone now but a fantastic sound, the “leccy’s” do nothing for me can hardly hear the things.
thanks harry long retired.
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Not quite all gone, 6 are still operational, Martin Walker (Beever sports) Huddersfield has two, both based at East Lancs railway at Bury and 1 is used on mainline railtours.
2 x triangular formation 2 stroke engines in each of em, horizontally opposed pistons =32 piston per engine = 72 pistons per locomotive =3300hp.
Fine machines.
I do like my railway engines and the Deltic has to be the grumpiest looking one ever, the sound was amazing as they started off and they do look mean, if a machine can look mean. As for sound, when I left school we refurbished shipping containers and built truck bodies, in the yard we had a compressor for the shot blaster with a huge ■■■■■■■ in it, from first starting that thing up in a morning it hummed away all day, as soon as you demanded air for the shot, it built its revs up and was noisy 
the council were forever trying to shut the place down, but to me it was heaven
V8Bluebottle:
This is pretty good for bus noiseyoutube.com/watch?v=unRnHUSgxmY
Would that have the same engine as a routemaster AEC sure sounds like one
fodenway:
For me, it’s got to be the Foden 2-stroke, with Detroit and Commer strokers close behind, followed by Mack Maxidyne. The Leyland 600 on a slow tickover is a sound full of nice memories. A few decades back, every engine had its own note, far more distinctive than today’s.
foden 2 stroke had a few with a man who could use his 12 speed nothing to touch me. hoppy
grumpy old man:
Foden 2 stroke and an AEC 7.7 with the bit between it’s teeth, nice and smooth.
Oh, and a TS3 with only one silencer box on, you could hear em a long way off.
TS3 with no silencer even better, I had one break off at the end of the front pipe, it was all of three minutes before the plod stopped us! 
Bernard
Hello All,I agree,the Leyland 0.600 on tickover. You could nearl enough count the firing order.
the leyland bison sounded realy meaty with constant turbo whistle that was my dads 6 wheeler tipper rolls 265 with eminox and the 14l ■■■■■■■ is the best dad bought 4 brandnew foden 8 wheelers 91 j reg with the 14l 350 ■■■■■■■ big cam with eaton twin splitter they was s…t of a shovel they had 3 stage jake brake sounded mint ive still got foden xl 525 ■■■■■■■ with 6inch straight throw pipes her first show is peterbourght 2012
the leyland bison sounded realy meaty with constant turbo whistle that was my dads 6 wheeler tipper rolls 265 with eminox and the 14l ■■■■■■■ is the best dad bought 4 brandnew foden 8 wheelers 91 j reg with the 14l 350 ■■■■■■■ big cam with eaton twin splitter they was s…t of a shovel they had 3 stage jake brake sounded mint ive still got foden xl 525 ■■■■■■■ with 6inch straight throw pipes her first show is peterbourght 2012
This old girl (Gardner 180) ticking over in the yard while we collected paperwork - pulling out of Wharf Road into Biddulph High Street with drawbar on full lock and finally, with a load on at full bore (70 mph plus) on the M6 heading for Banbury. “YOU WHAT!!!”
70 mph plus , you must have been naughtey & had the rack bar fastened back, or did the old motor have very very high speed diffs ? , Regards Larry.
An old Leyland Badger or Beaver they were music………a what….sorry you’ll have to SHOUT louder as I’m deaf as a post now days.
Ossie
Lawrence Dunbar:
70 mph plus , you must have been naughtey & had the rack bar fastened back, or did the old motor have very very high speed diffs ? , Regards Larry.
Lawrence - I was about 12 and glancing over at the speedo so can’t answer you properly I’m afraid - I know she had a David Brown gearbox, Eaton two speed axle, Kirkstall front steer axle with a trailing non driven Eaton rearmost axle.
I took these pictures of her laid up in 1986, waiting to be towed off to the Vet’s for the big needle. The speedo went up to 85 as I recall and I’m sure the needle was over 70 on the M6 one day but we might have been empty.
6 Legs was a man’s wagon 
