These look like the rantings of a twelve-year-old FFS. I’ve opened TN daily for the last 13 or 14 years to find this same nonsense on every bloody thread. I’ve tried to be kind and sometimes lost patience. But actually, I’m not spending the precious hours of my dotage reading any more of it. So I’m tuning out of TN to join the likes of ZbAnorak, ERF (Peterboro’), Gingerfold and the rest of the army who in the end found CF just too exasperating to continue. I’ll pop my head round the door occasionally to view my favourite threads, when it suits me. Au revoir for now.
Les S see you been tangoed, you just let CF get to you. This new TN format was crap from the word go and there was no need to change it from the old one, this has caused a mass exodus of so many good contributor’s with real knowledge and when they were all posting with the accompanying banter you never really noticed CF, you have weakened and given in which is sad, cheers Buzzer
Yeah, 'course you would and sent Eaton drawings explaining how to improve the 'box.
If you were that good, why couldn’t you get your head around it years ago when it was explained to you, in detail.
Then, without having ever seen a 15 speed, you want to argue with and teach me how to use it, even though I have almost fourty years experience wit all manner of RoadRanger.
If you were even half as good as you try to convince us that you are, why did yo fail so spectacularly.
Don’t give us any of that verbal diarrhea human forklift, face didn’t fit, lack of a couple of quid crud.
Don’t be too hasty Les the mans a clown everyone knows this.I shouldn’t react but i do.I am convinced he’s never been behind a wheel longterm .Just ignore it’s difficult but too many great contributors have left because of him.Gingerfold was one that springs to mind who had a vast amount of knowledge and Cavs another.Just humour the clown .Mind he did advise Dennis on the art of rope n sheeting which was quite entertaining what was it ? sheets dont help secure a load or something absurd.Not much call for it trundling up and down the M1 with a boxvan trailer
I am touched by your replies, chaps. I won’t abandon ship entirely, but I’ll steer clear of ‘disturbed’ threads whilst they are ‘live’, so to speak. If TN is to continue to be part of my quality of life, then I’ll only expose my life to the qualitative parts of it - if you see what I mean. Cheers.
Now then Ro here’s a 2012 Riley(NZ Car Freak) photo at Christchurch Airport give us a bit of info model, engine? etc afore ye go
Cheers
Oily
PS Joking about the going.
Bless you Oily! I don’t know much about Elms NZ other than that they used ERFs over a few generations of them. If you look carefully you’ll see that your picture shows it to be a 6x4. The one below may be the same one or a sister ship. These had Cummins NTC 335 lumps and probably 15-sp Fullers if they were on heavy work or forestry. The cabs appear to be 3MWs, which dates them as pre-January 1973. Hope that helps!
Probably a rookie question but the rectangular white grills?
Are they a direct airflow into the cab?
And as a supplementary question, are they standard, or an add-on from Block and Quayle?
Those grills were standard throughout the 3MW / 5MW era. I imagine they had some control lever, however crude, to regulate incoming air as they served in hot and cold climates (perhaps like the vents on F88s?).
Were they the same cab as the Big J but mounted higher.Motor Panels by the looks of things but with a lower bonnet similar to the Crusader and the dash resembles the Scammells too
So did they allow outside air straight into the cab?
Not like the “re-circ” or “fresh” lever on moder,umm, older… cars? Those which might pass through an engine-coolant heat-exchanger matrix?
Gosh. That is a mouthful, but I expect you will decipher it.
Correct! To be fair this 3MW was replaced in Jan '73 by the 5MW (which looked the same but for bigger diameter headlamps). The 5MW cured a lot of complaints about leaky windscreen seals and insufficient insulation.
I’ll bet the vents were like '60s cars, Franglais. I never drove one but the 3MW was developed in the late '60s and hit the roads of Europe in '69 with a whacking head-of-its-time 335 bhp Cummins.
Yes, it was the lower, full-width version of the Motor Panels Mk4 cab. The Big-J was the lower, narrow-width version. The Crusader (like the ERF NGC) had the higher, full-width version.
Like a few Brit lorries of the '60s and earlier, it probably had no gaiter round the gear-stick either, or the pedals. Plenty of nice fresh air and diesel from the lorry in front.
The ERF 3/5MW, however, HAD to have those things as a condition of acceptance by the importers in Belgium. ERF was now exporting to EEC standards. Posh eh!
