Hello guys!
I open this in a new tread because when I checked the site it was about “which Lorry did you take your blabla” Better have a tread only about Leyland Hippo.
Perhaps I need your help or not. It is a real Super Hippo? The information is from a old reseller flyer in Sweden. I want you read the specifications of the Lorry.
Leyland Super Hippo chassis around the late fifties as were sold in Sweden. Sure export models.
Specifikations:
ENGINE: 6-cylinder direct injector diesel, cylinder volume, 11,000 cu, 154 hp at 2,000 rpm/min torque 62,2 kilopond meter at 1,300 rpm/min, dry cylinder-feed.
POWERTRAIN: 5-geared synchromesh gearbox, auxiliary gearbox original, rear axle: 2 driveable with drive shaft.
BRAKES: Pneumatic brakes on 6 wheels, total braking surface 5,910 cm2
SUSPENSION: Ball blasted half elliptic type
Common data:
Length: circa 7, 341 mm.
Width: circa 2,32 meters (I don’t know if that was the standard size by law but I remember
when our Lorries were 2,35 mm. and that was in the early fifties.) I think the Hippo perhaps vas little small or if it was common in Britain?
Wheelbase: 4,020 + 1400 mm.
Gross weight: 21, 600 kg
Curb weight: 8,500 kg
Size of the tyres: 10, 00 x 20 — 12 sheets
Profitable load (including bed): circa 13,100 kg
Turning radie: 10, 5 meters
13,100 ton was more than Volvo L393 Titan 6 x 2 had (17,000 kg and 18,000) with double team driven bogie early fifties. But I remember that Lorry as my father was driver of had a profitable load of 11,750 kg with bed and timber two timber bunks.
Leyland Hippo was sold I Sweden in many years and I have two as ran as a Swedish long haul fitted with BeGe:s larger cabin.
Here you can read about Diesel-Gypsy and his adventure with an imported Hippo.
thedieselgypsy.com/Leyland%20Hippo.htm
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Hope you all will enjoy this sensational writing from an old seller and photo. These Hippos are parked in Stockholm and they seems heavy.
Lars-Gunnar 
Robert