albion1938:
Back in the '70s a neighbour had a Bentley MK6 with a 4LW in. Don’t know what shade of diesel it ran on but he was a plant fitter –
Would that have been fitted with the Gardner 4LW from new ?
Thanks Dave.
Good old photos them Larry , although you fail to give any indication as to who the subjects are ( or more likely were ) .
The dog in particular I find appealing … poor little bugger .
I’ve owned a number of canines over the years , the second of which I acquired when delivering bag muck to a sheep farm in Edmondbyers . A border collie ■■■■■ tethered up with orange baling twine in a barn and destined to be shot .
She was mine for a short period before falling victim to a learner driver .
It must be getting on for forty years ago now but this photo brought it back. Sorry to be so maudlin but I’m such a soft b’std .
Eddie Heaton:
Good old photos them Larry , although you fail to give any indication as to who the subjects are ( or more likely were ) .
The dog in particular I find appealing … poor little bugger .I’ve owned a number of canines over the years , the second of which I acquired when delivering bag muck to a sheep farm in Edmondbyers . A border collie ■■■■■ tethered up with orange baling twine in a barn and destined to be shot .
She was mine for a short period before falling victim to a learner driver .
It must be getting on for forty years ago now but this photo brought it back. Sorry to be so maudlin but I’m such a soft b’std .
Know how you feel Eddie, but I am mentally protected now having had so many dogs, and I always preferred older ones, over the years. Never been without at least one, and sometimes 3 at the same time from the moment we first set foot here as immigrants in September 1999. The first was a Greyhound and the current pair a Beauceron/Dobermann X, 8 years old and a little Lab X girl of over 13 but still running and recalling to hand signals unfailingly despite being deaf. 
dave docwra:
albion1938:
Back in the '70s a neighbour had a Bentley MK6 with a 4LW in. Don’t know what shade of diesel it ran on but he was a plant fitter –Would that have been fitted with the Gardner 4LW from new ?
Thanks Dave.
He bought it well secondhand, so not sure but unlikely I think. At that time old Rolls, Bentley and similar could be bought for peanuts but they were juicy and expensive to repair. Lots of room for an engine swap, so if you had one with a knackered engine and a good Gardner lying about why not?
I did have a ride in it once, it was OK when rolling but when it was idling all the windows and trim vibrated and rattled, not very Bentley-like
I mentioned prices - in the early seventies I considered buying a big old barge to use as my daily. Some I looked at, straight 8 Packard hearse, MOTd, clutch slipping £25. And a choice of MK5 Jag or DB18 Daimler, both tidy and MOT, £75 ONO.
Bernard
dave docwra:
albion1938:
Back in the '70s a neighbour had a Bentley MK6 with a 4LW in. Don’t know what shade of diesel it ran on but he was a plant fitter –Would that have been fitted with the Gardner 4LW from new ?
Thanks Dave.
. More likely to have been a 4LK, IMO, Larry.
dave docwra:
albion1938:
Back in the '70s a neighbour had a Bentley MK6 with a 4LW in. Don’t know what shade of diesel it ran on but he was a plant fitter –Would that have been fitted with the Gardner 4LW from new ?
Thanks Dave.
I worked with a fitter in the early 60’s who bought an ex Royal fleet Daimler (it was a big bugga), he popped a 4LW in it and it worked.
It’s a Morris Buzzer,a Morris Commercial.
David
albion1938:
dave docwra:
albion1938:
Back in the '70s a neighbour had a Bentley MK6 with a 4LW in. Don’t know what shade of diesel it ran on but he was a plant fitter –Would that have been fitted with the Gardner 4LW from new ?
Thanks Dave.
He bought it well secondhand, so not sure but unlikely I think. At that time old Rolls, Bentley and similar could be bought for peanuts but they were juicy and expensive to repair. Lots of room for an engine swap, so if you had one with a knackered engine and a good Gardner lying about why not?
I did have a ride in it once, it was OK when rolling but when it was idling all the windows and trim vibrated and rattled, not very Bentley-like
I mentioned prices - in the early seventies I considered buying a big old barge to use as my daily. Some I looked at, straight 8 Packard hearse, MOTd, clutch slipping £25. And a choice of MK5 Jag or DB18 Daimler, both tidy and MOT, £75 ONO.
Bernard
I know what you mean about unexpected downsides to re-engined old cars. The P6 in my Packard 8 was more than enough extra power and it didn’t get hot enough to need a fan (short of room I think). Except, that is, when working my way round the N. Circuler in the morning rush hour heading for my week working at Charlie Dormer’s in Leytonstone. The heavy stop/start traffic soon produced a cloud of steam and I had to keep stopping to let her cool down.
The other severe problem was with the gears. 3 speed plus overdrive was fine, but once in overdrive it wouldn’t drop out until the speed dropped considerably and, by that time, climbing a hill in 3rd gear was not enough and I had to drop again rapidly to 2nd.
Apart from that, and the habit of the wipers to slow down the faster you went, it was a dream of comfort to drive. It ended its life in the woods near Troyes when the diff seized up while I was on my way with a mate to Spain. 
Buzzer:
Buzzer
That’s a Morris Commercial from the mid 1930’s, the Army used various three axle and four axle versions as staff cars. Britains made a very nice model of the truck in various versions.
Pete.
Back in the 70s or 80s I think it was I paid £65 for a WW2 Morris Commercial 4WD recovery vehicle. It looked nothing like those examples, much more like a post war model. The straight 6 petrol engine pulled like a train and handled HGVs without a problem, the only thing was, with its non-air, non-assisted braking system I couldn’t stop the bloody thing. More than once I rolled to a gentle stop sweating cobs with the hand brake pulled almost back to the rear of the cab. 
The 6 volt system came from 2 massive 6 volt batteries mounted end to end across the chassis behind the cab. I fitted it with West Coast mirrors from a Ford in a scrapyard and in our brand new blue and white colours she really looked the part. Only wish I had taken a picture at the time.
Eddie Heaton:
Good old photos them Larry , although you fail to give any indication as to who the subjects are ( or more likely were ) .
The dog in particular I find appealing … poor little bugger .I’ve owned a number of canines over the years , the second of which I acquired when delivering bag muck to a sheep farm in Edmondbyers . A border collie ■■■■■ tethered up with orange baling twine in a barn and destined to be shot .
She was mine for a short period before falling victim to a learner driver .
It must be getting on for forty years ago now but this photo brought it back. Sorry to be so maudlin but I’m such a soft b’std .
. Well the one with the dog on , The late Arthur Lowdon & The late Franky Davis who worked for G.Lowdon at Seaton Burn Burn, The next one The late Margaret Lowdon & The Late Franky Cardwell who also worked for them & last but not least Margaret on their Alice Chalmers dozer, Larry.
Spardo:
Back in the 70s or 80s I think it was I paid £65 for a WW2 Morris Commercial 4WD recovery vehicle. It looked nothing like those examples, much more like a post war model. The straight 6 petrol engine pulled like a train and handled HGVs without a problem, the only thing was, with its non-air, non-assisted braking system I couldn’t stop the bloody thing. More than once I rolled to a gentle stop sweating cobs with the hand brake pulled almost back to the rear of the cab.The 6 volt system came from 2 massive 6 volt batteries mounted end to end across the chassis behind the cab. I fitted it with West Coast mirrors from a Ford in a scrapyard and in our brand new blue and white colours she really looked the part. Only wish I had taken a picture at the time.
The BMC dealers in Reading where I was apprenticed used a Morris Commercial ‘quad’ as a recovery vehicle. It had a handpowered crane on the rear and also a towed ‘ambulance’ on solid rubber tyres which heated up and left the rims if 20 mph was exceeded. It was an awkward vehicle to get in and out of, the fuel tanks were under each seat and two SU electric fuel pumps were above the passengers feet! Centre throttle, four pot sidevalve engine but it pulled like a train. Four speed box with crawler. Speed wasn’t great, however the regular driver was a Reading FC fan and had a callout at Basingstoke on a match day. When he got back to the garage the poor sod in the broken down van he was towing was as white as a sheet, “That blokes a blooming maniac, he told me to hang on tight as he had a football match to go to but I wasn’t expecting the ride I got”! I suppose it got scrapped, we later had an ex AFS Morris Commercial NVS and then a MRA4. When the company changed hands we got a Matador.
NMP
Pete.
Buzzer:
Buzzer
. A fine example brand new 1937., A family friend owned one when I was a kid, Larry.
windrush:
Spardo:
Back in the 70s or 80s I think it was I paid £65 for a WW2 Morris Commercial 4WD recovery vehicle. It looked nothing like those examples, much more like a post war model. The straight 6 petrol engine pulled like a train and handled HGVs without a problem, the only thing was, with its non-air, non-assisted braking system I couldn’t stop the bloody thing. More than once I rolled to a gentle stop sweating cobs with the hand brake pulled almost back to the rear of the cab.The 6 volt system came from 2 massive 6 volt batteries mounted end to end across the chassis behind the cab. I fitted it with West Coast mirrors from a Ford in a scrapyard and in our brand new blue and white colours she really looked the part. Only wish I had taken a picture at the time.
The BMC dealers in Reading where I was apprenticed used a Morris Commercial ‘quad’ as a recovery vehicle. It had a handpowered crane on the rear and also a towed ‘ambulance’ on solid rubber tyres which heated up and left the rims if 20 mph was exceeded. It was an awkward vehicle to get in and out of, the fuel tanks were under each seat and two SU electric fuel pumps were above the passengers feet! Centre throttle, four pot sidevalve engine but it pulled like a train. Four speed box with crawler. Speed wasn’t great, however the regular driver was a Reading FC fan and had a callout at Basingstoke on a match day. When he got back to the garage the poor sod in the broken down van he was towing was as white as a sheet, “That blokes a blooming maniac, he told me to hang on tight as he had a football match to go to but I wasn’t expecting the ride I got”! I suppose it got scrapped, we later had an ex AFS Morris Commercial NVS and then a MRA4. When the company changed hands we got a Matador.
NMP
Pete.
In my Flickr in tray today, all credit to Rab Lawrence for the photo.
Oily
I see you have found our own Tom Kruise Buzzer he was a legend in his own lunchbox and still is.
This gentleman was of the same ilk but here in West Oz he pioneered the Great Central road between Kalgoorlie and Giles the last townsite in WA before the NT border it is still mostly gravel.
He was a Pomm like myself his name Dennis Meeker and he purchased his Super Hippo brand new from Leyland Trucks WA in 1965ish ,I first met him in Fitzroy Crossing in1974 and we were great mates until his untimely passing.I had my super hippo at the time I had just put it on the road after fitting a 220hp ■■■■■■■ engine as the turbo Leyland 690 had seized on the rear main and as that was a common problem over here I fitted the ■■■■■■■■
He saw my old engine sitting in the shed and fell in love with it so I loaded it on his truck and sent him on his way he told me he would rebuild it but fit the turbo mid engine not at the rear of the engine like Leylands as the heat couldn’t escape and was the cause of so many failures he had it going when he passed away.
A great friend and deserves a mention with Tom Kruise.but also with your 3 armed man looking for a job driving Dennis,s Leyland would have been the go as Dennis had 3 gear sticks in his Leyland the main box a 5 speed unit then 2 joey boxes one of which had been turned around to give an overdrive in direct the other gave an incredibly low ratio some where in there Dennis told me it would take 5mins for a blade of grass to pass the length of a fuel tank just idling.
Dig
Buzzer:
Buzzer
That Leyland Badger was far from as Leyland dispatched it from the factory.
Tom modified it with parts that were available, or needed to make the truck more appropriate to the conditions under which it was expected to operate.
I’ll bet Leyland never envisioned the desert conditions, in which Tom made his living, as they waved it goodbye at the factory gate.