A load of export Triumph Spitfires heading for a pound at Honeybourne Airfield because of a shortage of parts(note the headlights). I was on that job with a different firm, Electric lift on the unit took an age to load and unload the top deck Carter Engineering of Tamworth with Super Comet.
Guy Big J:
I presume the Cummins 335 is a retrofit, but I donāt know enough to say.
Ripped the eight pot Percy out? 
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Hiya RR the last time I spoke to Brian via TNUK he was living in France and was running fruit and veg into the big Paris market but that was a few years ago so havenāt heard anything else since so who knows he could be back in Marra land now ! Cheers
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Thatād be Percy the Gard(e)ner I presume
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I was hoping for a bite from Dennis. 
I think you could get a 335 Cummins in a Big J .I think they were an option.Also available in the early Marathons
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You could get the 5cyl D5 in the C30 so i would guess the T5 would have been an option too , i would imagine they would nip on a bit
Gāud day mate or whatever time of day or night it is Down Under ! the expression is āFlogging a dead horseā mate 
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Got it. Iāll bow out
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I think I have to settle for a nibble.
Yes, you could. Pickfords had some with the NTC 335.
Nice film. Thanks for posting.
When he lugged round that mini-roundabout in a fairly high gear, you could hear how that Cummins found the torque to pull away effortlessly. That 14-ltr Cummins was one of the early high-torque-at-low-revs pioneers, with the Scania V8 hot on its heels!
The only Big-J I drove had a Gardner 180 with a TET 6-sp ābox. But I only drove it as a yard shunter.
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I know Iām biased, but in my opinion the 14 litre Cummins was the best engine ever built. I wish I had a dollar for every time I was prepared to change down, but the Cummins dug its heels in,growling and clawing back revs.
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Is he making a political point by missing out St. Patās cross from the Union flag? 
I agree entirely. 
Must have heard me. 
Just watched the Guy film again. I notice it follows the normal H-shift pattern so it must have an RT 9509 ābox. The other little knob behind the range-change plunger will be the clutch-brake / intertia brake activator. For some reason or other they were on the gear stick in a Guy, instead of being at the bottom of the clutch travel, as on other units contemporary with the Big-J. Just another piece of, now useless, information! If youāre 21 and about to take your test, disregard this post