Hello all,
I’m new to this lark. But I did used to drive the 100 centurion for mckellars years ago.
You should be able to rotate the scan/photo in your photo album after you have
scanned it and before you upload attachment.
Looks great in pearl-white even better when the sun shines on it.
scanned it and before you upload attachment.
Looks great in pearl-white even better when the sun shines on it.
Thanks. Another sunny foto taken while waiting in rota Cadiz. Used to load Jaguar parts for Coventry.
BuzzardBoy:
It went to a crowd in Kent but their name escapes me
Wasnt Ron Wood was it, i know he still has some 3 series Centurions, i saw one of his 500 Centurions on the M2 last Tuesday pulling a flat loaded with steel.
I Ronnie Wood still going? his motors were always smart.
The master Centurion 100 belongs to and is preserved by Alister Sloan of Sloan transport, Dromore, Co Down and now carries the reg GLZ 100.
Millar transport from N. Ireland had four centurions they were
LDZ 1140 No 40
MDZ 1140 No 81
MDZ 2140 No 82
MDZ 3140 No 83
I have photos of some of them but I haven’t worked out how to get them on here.
Anyone know where any of the other Centurions went?
I dont know how much truth there is in this story, i am sure one of you knows if its true or not…
Peter Roff orders a 143 500 Centurion Topline from the now defunct City Trucks in Milton Keynes. It gets delivered to Scania and they PDI it and take it on a test drive. Whilst on the test drive the fitter loses control and does in the region of 10k worth of damage to it. It gets towed back to City Trucks and put into a body shop. They take the decision to get it repaired and not tell Roffy as he would hit the roof. Well word gets back to Peter Roff, who then just sits and waits for it to be delievred. The delivery day finally came and Peter looked round it and said it was very nice but didnt want it as it had been involved in an accident and wasnt paying 75k for an crash repaired truck.
It was common knowledge round Leighton Buzzard at the time, but not many actually knew if it was true or not.
mechanic77:
Anyone know where any of the other Centurions went?
i used to work for a bloke that had a 143 450 topline centurion, he did a lot of tanker work with it, hence it not having a spoiler kit. It was white with the centurion stickers, the reg was J100 HGM. He sold it on a number of years ago, and i did once see it near Calais pulling a tilt a couple or 3 years ago. Cant remember what the number on the centurion badge was thou.
I am sure i once read somewhere that the “Centurion” badge on the Master Centurion was Gold Plated and had some minor current of electricity going through it to deter would be badge theives, Anyone know if its true or not??
It went to a crowd in Kent but their name escapes me
Wasnt Ron Wood was it, i know he still has some 3 series Centurions, i saw one of his 500 Centurions on the M2 last Tuesday pulling a flat loaded with steel.
As the driver of the Master Centurion, I can tell you that the Centurion badge was gold plated (all the others were silver) but it definately was not wired up to the battery.
It’s always said that this model (not necessarily the Centurion but the 3 series generally) was the best, most reliable and long-lived of all the Scania models.
You still see loads in Netherlands/Belgium/Germany; is this the opinion of this model in the UK?
There are not that many about now on UK roads.
I drove a Swiss one for a a little while. It had been well hammered but it still drove like a train on the mountains. The tunnel was shut so had to use Col de Saint Marie, normally verboten to trucks over 19t.
- Best Scania yet!
I’ll drink to that… 
You don’t see that many nice ones around these days but I have noticed that the greeks seem to have mopped up the last of the danish/dutch streamline 143s and most are kept up tidy enough but I wouldn’t like to vouch for the mechanics.
Cheers
Neilf
BuzzardBoy:
I dont know how much truth there is in this story, i am sure one of you knows if its true or not…Peter Roff orders a 143 500 Centurion Topline from the now defunct City Trucks in Milton Keynes. It gets delivered to Scania and they PDI it and take it on a test drive. Whilst on the test drive the fitter loses control and does in the region of 10k worth of damage to it. It gets towed back to City Trucks and put into a body shop. They take the decision to get it repaired and not tell Roffy as he would hit the roof. Well word gets back to Peter Roff, who then just sits and waits for it to be delievred. The delivery day finally came and Peter looked round it and said it was very nice but didnt want it as it had been involved in an accident and wasnt paying 75k for an crash repaired truck.
It was common knowledge round Leighton Buzzard at the time, but not many actually knew if it was true or not.
There were a whole host of ‘Peter Roff Sent The Motor Back’ stories floating about back then. The most popular one being that the delivery driver smoked a cigarette while driving it to Roff’s yard, so back it went and he refused to pay for it. There were so many of those tales that it’s a wonder he ever managed to get a new truck. 
My best guess is he once had a minor issue with one new truck and the stories just grew from that.
Stories about Roff and his drivers were very popular, much in the way stories about Stobarts are, I guess high profile, clean trucks, attract that sort of thing. I used to know most of his drivers as my boss at the time subbed to Roff. His drivers just used to laugh at the stories, especially the ones about cleaning the trucks and the lengths they were supposed to go to and whether they got paid for doing it or not. Seems about 99% of the stories were not correct, but they helped pass the time while parked in a truck stop.
not a good picture,one i drove for a while eurobulk.co.uk/
mechanic77:
Anyone know where any of the other Centurions went?
i know my old boss cammacks had one, and its now owned and used by longdons of colchester. d c ball had 8 i think in total and think this is where it came from. b t cullums of tiptree had the sister one to it, but i dont have any pictures of it
Taskman, I remember the “Robsons of Carlisle” trucks all being named before ES came on the scene. As I remember the names were all prefixed with “border”… ie “Border Warrior”, Queen, Swordsman etc. Nicely logod trucks that I as a kid wanted to drive!!! Its sad to know they all gone,to be gobbled up by corparate giants. RIP.
There’s a Yellow Centurion that runs about over here pulling containers ! 