Hope you and the lovely Liz are well, great pics,that one of inside your garage is that the machine that Liz attaches to Patricks orifices when he visits and has to be calmed down ?
Regards
Richard
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Hi Richard…you’re guess is very close, as you know Whippersnaps is still not fully house trained and is a bed wetter…that device is for extracting excess urine before he gets tucked up in bed, usually about 10 litres on a good night…If you look closely at the second photo I think it was set at 15 litres the last time he stayed…I belive, and I await conformation, that Herr Sutherland has a simular device in his garage too.
Love to Angie ■■.
I’m scared to disclose anything. Herr Whippersnapper knows where I live and you know his reputation…
I think Pic 1 comes from the TV serie “La Route”; Pic 2’s overturned truck looks like a Mercedes L 6600. First truck on Pic 6 is mysterious; maybe a Saurer fitted with a special cab, I’ll try to find more about it.
I think Pic 1 comes from the TV serie “La Route”; Pic 2’s overturned truck looks like a Mercedes L 6600. First truck on Pic 6 is mysterious; maybe a Saurer fitted with a special cab, I’ll try to find more about it.
Agree on the Saurer in pic 6. The cab looks a bit Dutch to me, but don’t let that colour your judgment. There was a similar wide, low cab not too far back in this thread, IIRC.
Not sure about the overturned one. The grille looks a bit short for a Merc 66. Could it be another Saurer?
Froggy55:
To come back to the gearbox discussion, I had the opportunity to use many kinds. The widespread ZF 16-speed, of course, fitted standard by many truck manufacturers; either with a “double H” pattern, or a switch. Efficient but needed using clutch pedal too often, and the stick could be rather firm to move.
The Mercedes Powershift of the first generation. Didn’t like it much; one still had to use the clutch pedal.
Volvo 12 and 16 speed boxes; Scania 10 speed.
Fuller 12 speed on Iveco TurboStar 380 and 480; certainly the best boxes coupled to the best engines of their generation!
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And, of course, the old 5-speed Berliet boxes fitted in the '50s and '60s. No synchromesh, and double clutching for every gear changing.
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On coaches and buses, strangely, the pattern was the other way round, with 1st gear far right and 5th on the driver’s side. Pictures show a 1960 GLR 8M, taken at the Locomotion en Fête in 2012.
Forgotten about the 10-speed Scanny box, that had a slightly different shift pattern as well, didn’t it? Odd how every manufacturer comes up with so many different “views” on gearboxes… what was the most sufficient one of the lot? The 8, 10, 12 or 16-speed? In synchro or crash 'box form? Bearing in mind the sort of work I’ve done over the years I would choose the 16-speed one, a gear for every situation, I sometimes found that the 12-speed ones, had 'em in both the Scanny and Volvo I drove, lacked a gear when the going got tough…
harry_gill:
Hiya,
I drove a Scania 80 around the time of their introduction to the UK market,
this would be about 1967 but can’t remember what make type of gearbox
it would have had, all I remember it was rubbish at 32 tons gross, that was
the whole motor and changed jobs rather than drive it.
thanks harry, long retired.
Scania’s own box Harry…I bought one of those 80’s, utter rubbish, put me off Scania, became a Volvo man instead.
Hiya,
Thanks for that could your memory stretch to how many gears they had
and in what format my memory doesn’t work all that well, but it doe’s
work well enough to remember the darned things were crap I couldn’t
escape from the thing quick enough.
thanks harry, long retired.
Not a solid start from the beginning then eh…? Did their reputation started with the 0/1 series?
pete smith:
So the guttering around the bed never worked Dave?
Nope Pierre, even tilting the bed up at 65 degrees…
Hence the Bloggs “Urine Extractor MK1”…its been fairly successful so far, but I’m going to buy a small paddling pool (as a back up ) for him next time he stays, with a bilge pump attachment, in case he fills it up…pump it directly in to the fosse septic…
Anymore of those comments Senior, Pete, Richard and you don’t get to sit along my little Scammell Pioneer…
And you have to see things from the bright side, at the age you all have, you need to leave to comfort of your bed every hour for a wee, whereas I can lay still all night and even have a bit of extra warmth due to the extraction of certain fluids… I’ll get me coat…
Hope you and the lovely Liz are well, great pics,that one of inside your garage is that the machine that Liz attaches to Patricks orifices when he visits and has to be calmed down ?
Regards
Richard
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Hi Richard…you’re guess is very close, as you know Whippersnaps is still not fully house trained and is a bed wetter…that device is for extracting excess urine before he gets tucked up in bed, usually about 10 litres on a good night…If you look closely at the second photo I think it was set at 15 litres the last time he stayed…I belive, and I await conformation, that Herr Sutherland has a simular device in his garage too.
Love to Angie ■■.
I’m scared to disclose anything. Herr Whippersnapper knows where I live and you know his reputation…
Hope you and the lovely Liz are well, great pics,that one of inside your garage is that the machine that Liz attaches to Patricks orifices when he visits and has to be calmed down ?
Regards
Richard
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Hi Richard…you’re guess is very close, as you know Whippersnaps is still not fully house trained and is a bed wetter…that device is for extracting excess urine before he gets tucked up in bed, usually about 10 litres on a good night…If you look closely at the second photo I think it was set at 15 litres the last time he stayed…I belive, and I await conformation, that Herr Sutherland has a simular device in his garage too.
Love to Angie ■■.
I’m scared to disclose anything. Herr Whippersnapper knows where I live and you know his reputation…
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Johnny
Reputation? What reputation? [emoji38] [emoji38] [emoji38]
You don’t really want me to go there Monsieur Whippersnapper. I might reveal too much.
Reputation? What reputation? [emoji38] [emoji38] [emoji38]
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You don’t really want me to go there Monsieur Whippersnapper. I might reveal too much.
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Johnny
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You’re right Herr Sutherland, last man who didn’t hold his tongue… is swimming with the fishes now…
