One might guess that vehicles imported from a RHD country (GB) pre might be RHD rather than LHD?
The vehicle in your and @oiltreader photos of the Statens Jarnvagar unit and trailer looks exactly like the one on this thread.
No second trailer but there is a hitch for one.
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 passed…with 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.…loved 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.
Oh you could certainly hear before you saw them, the (V8?) tippers made a noise too. “Streets ahead” 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, there’s an old thread on TN with some great photos and stories here: Streets of Watchet
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 MD’s own?
I know my mate had bother with the box which was done under warranty…nothing to do with me and my driving btw…(afaik )
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 didn’t come until about 1980. The later post IVECO units I seem to remember had 13 speed Fullers regardless of engine. I don’t recall Magirus ever making a gearbox, at least not a heavy one.
I remember nighting out in a D series me across the seats and my girlfriend lying on the floor…ever 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 ‘old hand’ showed me if you put your arm through a vent at the front you could reach the door handle inside.
The answer may lie in the deep-lipped rave. The pic appears to show a flush flat surface but didn’t 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 load…(the past is a foreign country, they do things differently there)…but 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 must’ve been a bit noisy in the cab but when you’re young… well you know how it goes.
Ta for the info, I can’t 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.
…loved it, and me being me loved winding them up.
