Dont think so chap,that was on the front cover but nothing in the magazine itself. Had a quick look on the computer but
nothing in the archives chap.
Wheres Johnny these days ■■
However how about a nice Super Hippo from 1954.
Click on page twice.
Cheers Dean, those Super Hippo’s looked the part IMHO…
Johnny is doing alright mate, just tangled up with some top secret project he’s working on I imagine…
I.m pretty sure I have posted this before but it is a Super Hippo around late 60s build and modified by yours truly with a cab lift of two and a half inches and a ■■■■■■■ 220 hp under the bonnet, proud owner doing a walk around.
Cheers Dig
While yours truly and the cook were on our way to town recently we were held up by three of these crossing the bridge over the Swan river but regrettably the camera person was bit slow getting organised and missed the leader which you will be pleased to hear was a fairly new and sparkly Mack similar to the one in picture but fairly certain a brand spanker with your company logo on the doors Patrick.
I have it on good authority it has a mixture of a gear stick with an A and a R/R multi ratio plan of attack .Right up your ally boss…
Cheers Dig
DIG:
While yours truly and the cook were on our way to town recently we were held up by three of these crossing the bridge over the Swan river but regrettably the camera person was bit slow getting organised and missed the leader which you will be pleased to hear was a fairly new and sparkly Mack similar to the one in picture but fairly certain a brand spanker with your company logo on the doors Patrick.
I have it on good authority it has a mixture of a gear stick with an A and a R/R multi ratio plan of attack .Right up your ally boss…
Cheers Dig
Great pics Dig, That Super Hippo was sweet !
Sounds like you need to reprimand “The Cook”
Heres another Bulldog Titan doing a bit Dig,probably bring back some memories !
I.m pretty sure I have posted this before but it is a Super Hippo around late 60s build and modified by yours truly with a cab lift of two and a half inches and a ■■■■■■■ 220 hp under the bonnet, proud owner doing a walk around.
Cheers Dig
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With hindsight obviously, but you should have kept that together with the KW mate, would have made quite the entrance in the preservation scene
What was originally under the bonnet DIG?
DIG:
While yours truly and the cook were on our way to town recently we were held up by three of these crossing the bridge over the Swan river but regrettably the camera person was bit slow getting organised and missed the leader which you will be pleased to hear was a fairly new and sparkly Mack similar to the one in picture but fairly certain a brand spanker with your company logo on the doors Patrick.
I have it on good authority it has a mixture of a gear stick with an A and a R/R multi ratio plan of attack .Right up your ally boss…
Cheers Dig
Turned the job down mate, to hot for my taste down there! Make sure to thank the Cook on behalf of the team please
Heres another Bulldog Titan doing a bit Dig,probably bring back some memories !
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Thanks DeanO just looking at it made me feel quite weary.
These days with the walk throughs between trailers and most of the stations and sale yards having double decker races these blokes get it easy we had to load the bottom decks then force the cattle up an internal ramp then wind that up by hand with a fully automated armstrong winch as it formed part of the top deck floor then the same for unloading yep it does bring back some memories ,thanks mate.
Dig
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What was originally under the bonnet DIG?
A Leyland 690 Patrick the early model that had the turbo mounted at the rear of the engine block where it could cook everything including the drivers feet,the heat build up was that intense as the Hippo firewall trapped the heat with little airflow,the engine in mine had seized on the rear main a fairly common problem with that model the later models had the turbo mounted in the middle of the exhaust manifold as per ■■■■■■■ /Cat etc and did a reasonable job as long as an oil cooler was fitted.
Dig
pv83:
I.m pretty sure I have posted this before but it is a Super Hippo around late 60s build and modified by yours truly with a cab lift of two and a half inches and a ■■■■■■■ 220 hp under the bonnet, proud owner doing a walk around.
Cheers Dig
With hindsight obviously, but you should have kept that together with the KW mate, would have made quite the entrance in the preservation scene
I sold the old Hippo to a gentleman in the NT and I was recently informed it could be one that sits at an old mines site north of Katherine so it was my intention to go have a look but at this stage Covad19 has put a bit of roadblock in the way.If it is it and I can acquire for a reasonable sum I thought I would paint it red and use it as a letter box.
Dig
DIG:
Heres another Bulldog Titan doing a bit Dig,probably bring back some memories !
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Thanks DeanO just looking at it made me feel quite weary.
These days with the walk throughs between trailers and most of the stations and sale yards having double decker races these blokes get it easy we had to load the bottom decks then force the cattle up an internal ramp then wind that up by hand with a fully automated armstrong winch as it formed part of the top deck floor then the same for unloading yep it does bring back some memories ,thanks mate.
Dig
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Blimey Dig, glad that double decks were after my time, job was hard enough on one level, never mind 2. But if the internal ramp formed part of the upper floor how did you know, when lowering to unload, that there wasn’t a cow standing on it heading for your head.
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Blimey Dig, glad that double decks were after my time, job was hard enough on one level, never mind 2. But if the internal ramp formed part of the upper floor how did you know, when lowering to unload, that there wasn’t a cow standing on it heading for your head.
When the top deck was loaded and the ramp/floor section locked inplace we walked a couple of head back onto the ramp section as it was a partitioned off area and they travelled there so when unloading as the winch was on the top of the crate I used to release the locking system then let their weight take the ramp slowly down they didn’t need to be rhodes scholars once down to find the door to the outside.
Dig
DEANB:
Dig, That Super Hippo was a great looking motor and in my opinion the best looking Leyland ever built.
Heres one from your part of the world from 1954.
Click on page twice.
One of the old girls Dean Leyland 600 era that track was some challenge by the sound of it, the flash models like ours had the square front guards which were good for standing on to clean the screens or checking the oil etc plus the headlamps were mounted in the guards and got a lot softer ride than the pedistal mount off the chassis.
The rear drive axles were hub reduction far better for traction than the worm drive units of the earlier model.
This one in the photo was a 56 model purchased new by a pommy mate who lived in Kalgoorlie it had 3 gearboxs worm drive diffs and he told me in low low it took a blade of grass growing at the side of the track 5 mins to travel the length of the fuel tank with the motor just idling. He would have been a good man for that timber job.
Dig
