Renault Magnum all credit to Richard Says for the photos.
Hey up Oily are Magnums still made
Thanks Gary
Sadly I think not Gary, they were superceded by the T-Range I think. Sadly because imo the most imaginative cab ever produced and my own firm favourite.
My brother worked at RHCV a subsidiary of the RH Group in Nottingham
RH Transport had some of the first Magnums in the country fitted with the Mack V8 engine
I think they were badged AE500s
The engines were unreliable as the liners went pourus and caused a lot of downtime
Another Nottingham haulier Ted Coombes ran a Renault engined Magnum
He traded had BJ Transport and did a lot of work out of Carters Soft Drinks at Kegworth
Iāve only driven a Magnum once and I totally agree with you Spardo the cab was totally better than any other on the market at the time especially for driver comfort and storage
I think I have mentioned before that I was let down by RH when I was the manager at Toray, Bulwell, They promised me a demonstrator for a week and I booked a hired trailer to run with it, by that time we were totally on wagon and A-frame drags. It got forgotten in the system and I was left one Monday morning with a semi-trailer I couldnāt use and an agency driver who was twiddling his thumbs.
It is a sad memory for me because my younger brother, already showing the first signs of the brain cancer which would later kill him at 47, was eagerly looking forward to the trip I had promised him when I took it out myself to Hyde and back.
When the T-range was barely more than a gleam in the designerās eye I had seen one or two in that chocolate brown colour knocking about French roads and I overnighted at a routier near the Belgian border. I dined with a Dutch driver who, during the conversation, said he had been inside one of them at a place where he delivered. He was barely enthusiastic but admitted he hadnāt had a ride in it. Driving a Spacecab DAF he nevertheless had some nostalgia for the Magnum.
To me the Magnum was a massive surprise, I had not had much experience of Renaults up to that time but what I had had had not been good. (3 hads ) One or two of the smaller models, forgotten the name now, but not the Turboliner, we had had on hire from RH did not impress. One was sent back tout de suite when we discovered the fuel tank hanging dangerously by one rusted strap, the other having already succombed, and the joke at the time was that if you bought a T-shirt they gave you a lorry to match it.
Yes P6 ,sounds sweet but I would say that itās got a hydraulic rear too .
Like the weight box on the front! I had a similar set-up on a Ford 5000 when the local farmer decided to use the weights from his old grain scales instead of paying for the standard weights and rail! I had been a naughty boy and the magistrates had decided that I should let them borrow my licence for six months.
Yes P6 ,sounds sweet but I would say that itās got a hydraulic rear too .
Like the weight box on the front! I had a similar set-up on a Ford 5000 when the local farmer decided to use the weights from his old grain scales instead of paying for the standard weights and rail! I had been a naughty boy and the magistrates had decided that I should let them borrow my licence for six months.
Was it for going through weight limits like old windbag does ?
Yes P6 ,sounds sweet but I would say that itās got a hydraulic rear too .
I had one of those in my 1939 Packard 8. Back in the 60s. My mate and I were into Classic Yanks at the time and chased it all round Nottingham in our '38 Pontiac till the bloke, a Trent bus driver, finally got fed up and stopped. I bought it off him for Ā£75, fiver down and a fiver a week. Pulled like a horse of course, 3 gears plus overdrive. But once in overdrive it wouldnāt drop out till the revs went right down. On a hill by that time it was time for 2nd, then it went up anything. The bus driver bought the engine out of an accident scrapped Derbyshire Stone tipper and fitted it himself. Even an 8 cylinder Packard engine space was not enough for the Perkins so he didnāt fit the fan. Only time it overheated was in a jam on the North Circular. It finally gave up the ghost near Troyes when the rear end seized up.
Yes P6 ,sounds sweet but I would say that itās got a hydraulic rear too .
Like the weight box on the front! I had a similar set-up on a Ford 5000 when the local farmer decided to use the weights from his old grain scales instead of paying for the standard weights and rail! I had been a naughty boy and the magistrates had decided that I should let them borrow my licence for six months.
) One or two of the smaller models, forgotten the name now, but not the Turboliner, we had had on hire from RH did not impress. One was sent back tout de suite when we discovered the fuel tank hanging dangerously by one rusted strap, the other having already succombed, and the joke at the time was that if you bought a T-shirt they gave you a lorry to match it. 
