Is this pic already known here ?
Hippo tipper demonstrator with temporary reg. plate. Apparently not the same one as barreiros has posted on the previous page if you take a closer look at the front bumper (painted black here) for instance.
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Is this pic already known here ?
Hippo tipper demonstrator with temporary reg. plate. Apparently not the same one as barreiros has posted on the previous page if you take a closer look at the front bumper (painted black here) for instance.
Those bottom-of-the-door windows were before their time. An excellent idea for a day-cabbed motor in urban traffic.
However, Iveco saw fit to provide them on long-haul sleeper-cabbed tractors like the Eurostar: disaster! If you wanted or, more like, needed privacy in dodgy places you had to block them off with plates cut to the shape of the window.
this Leyland Marathon was parked for a few years next to J29 Truckstop Chesterfield for a few years,gone now
Colombo in Paris suburb, also known to have bought White and Autocar 6x4, had this Hippo tipper in the 60’S.
Sorry, the original picture is too large :
Unfortunately and despite my researches, I have never seen a colour photo of this Colombo sleeper-cabbed Hippo yet. Was it yellow ? Orange ? Probably a factory prototype / demonstrator bought at a bargain price…
Their Whites and Autocars are better known indeed. They were resplendent in their bright red livery.
I’ll bet the German drivers wondered who won the war.
I dunno, the DDR drivers were chugging about in IFAs and chuffing Skodas. I always thought IFA stood for ‘In Front Again’, they were that slow!
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Brings back memories, those old 600 engines had their own charm and noise! 
Good engines. Delivered 125 bhp at 1800 revs IIRC.
Great!
For a moped.
Time moves the goalposts, doesn’t it? 
That 9.8 litre motor was quite lively in a double-decker bus! More sedate in an artic I would imagine.
Being an anorak…I had to fact check myself… 
50cc moped may be about 6-ish hp.
Racing 50cc about 20hp. (But some YouTube sites claim 30+hp…probably stay intact just long enough to get into top gear}
So the bhp per ton ratio would equate to 20 bhp: 0.20 ton (approx), if you reckon a moped to weigh c. 1 cwt (20 cwts = 1 ton).
As for gears, my 50 cc Honda P50 had continuously variable transmission in 1969…
Or, 20hp per 50cc, is 400hp per litre.
F1 engines in the early 2000’s were 3.0litre and 600 to 1,000 hp…puny…!
1960’s Suzuki 50cc racers had up to 14 gears.
We are off on all sorts of tangents now, but Mike Hailwood won a TT on a 250cc 6 cylinder Honda with about 60hp in 1967.
And to sign off…https://youtu.be/ETvldkqeKgg?si=XHAG9niC4j45ArTK
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