Shap in winter not for everyone.
V10 Maggie
I had one of those on demo for a week. Double bunk, night heater, walk through (just) cab, exhaust brake. Streets ahead of my 220Cummins Atki with no power steering.
Heavy on juice though and the company went with Volvo and later Merc.
First artic I ever drove a Maggie Deutz brand new, test newly passedâŚwith a tipper behind it.
(Mate who was an owner driver on holiday relief.)
Used to get some hostile envious looks as a young fresh faced kid in a top notch modern Euro motor pulling up beside the old hands in their day cabbed Atki and ERF Gardeners.
âŚloved it, and me being me loved winding them up.
The thing used to have a growl, you certainly heard me coming before you saw me.
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Oh you could certainly hear before you saw them, the (V8?) tippers made a noise too. âStreets aheadâ reminded me that I used to see and hear quite a few Maggie-Deutz wagons back when I first got involved in transport - the most common sights and sounds were those of Streets, thereâs an old thread on TN with some great photos and stories here: Streets of Watchet
A teaser:
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Cheers for that mate, it brought back a few memories looking at the cab interior and dash..
I thought I was King of the road in one of those, my first artic as a young lad .
Was it a ZF (push through a gate) type box, or was it MDâs own?
I know my mate had bother with the box which was done under warrantyâŚnothing to do with me and my driving btwâŚ(afaik )
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With what else was available in 1965 the Ergo was one helluva good looking cab - from the outside anyway.
The V8 232 had a constant mesh ZF AK6-8O with splitter. The V10 310 had a ZF S5GP, 8 plus crawler synchro, but a 4 over 4 installation, the knock across didnât come until about 1980. The later post IVECO units I seem to remember had 13 speed Fullers regardless of engine. I donât recall Magirus ever making a gearbox, at least not a heavy one.
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Cheers you.ve got me thinking now whether my mateâs actually had the ZF push across or a Range Change set up.
Did the driver of the D series, do a bit of window cleaning in his spare time?
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I remember nighting out in a D series me across the seats and my girlfriend lying on the floorâŚever the gentleman.
I locked myself out of the bloody thing another night, (the lock barrel was shot at), coming back from the pub, so I slept under the sheet.
Next morning an âold handâ showed me if you put your arm through a vent at the front you could reach the door handle inside.
Where are the rope hooks on that Tunnel Cement wagon? 
The answer may lie in the deep-lipped rave. The pic appears to show a flush flat surface but didnât Tunnel Cement lorries have a lipped rave as shown in the pic below?
I can see that ropes might not be used to secure the loadâŚ(the past is a foreign country, they do things differently there)âŚbut how would a sheet be secured? Surely that would come over the side fairings?
I know what you mean, any footage or photos of early 80s DAF cabs do the same for me. The V10 mustâve been a bit noisy in the cab but when youâre young⌠well you know how it goes.
Ta for the info, I canât imagine that many truck manufacturers in the 70s and 80s would have gone to the expense of developing their own transmissions, even given some mis-matches here and there.
It was no noisier than contemporary UK trucks.
If this picture is anything to go by, the loads were not necessarily sheeted:
I actually found a Tunnel Cement thread on here, but it gives us no clues as to sheeting arrangements: