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There was an article about this motor in one of the mags many years ago, think it might have been ‘Truck’ and I’m sure I saw it in a recent picture parked in Ashley Pearce’s yard in Essex 
Hopefully someone’s restoring it 
Yes it would be nice if someone has taken this one on as a restoration project also would be nice to get some background info on what is an interesting motor.
I think pat ainacs owned this one later on
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Your right Jim this scania is officially recognised as one of the finest examples in exsistence absolutly fantastic.
Jimski:
Hi all, taken at the Retro Truck Show this month must be one of the cleanest 140’s about awesome !!!
Regards Jimski
G’day,
Many thanks to Bill for the p.m and info on the Dutch spec 141 that I posted last week and thanks to Carl Jarman for the info on his 141 it would seem that they were run by the same bloke. Great looking trucks.
Here’s another possible Dutch 141 that I took in 1990 at a cold store in Devon,very tidy looking, I do remember the driver’s mate calling the driver ‘Cheese’,does it ring any bells?
Who or what was ‘Nortrail’ Bill was it do do with the Norwegian railways?
Pretty sure that W reg was Trever Starkes one
Does anyone remember seeing this lorry? It looks like a factory demonstrator on a “European tour”- Swedish reg, GB trade plates and horsepower in three different languages, just to make sure! The trailer looks like a German specification one to me.
I think I got the picture off one of these pages: mellislastbilar.se/scania/0- … cania2.htm. Change the number 2 in both places and you can see 11 pages of LBs.
Maybe someone on here will know ?
I had a 140 that had a long curved (in chrome) gear lever that was not like any Scania lever I had seen before, the gear knob was also different.
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Are you sure it was the gear lever The early ones had a longer chrome trailer brake handle and the splitter ones had a loopy like type gear knob with a hole in it but I dont know if the v8 ever had a splitter because of the torque
What’s the story behind the three different gearstick types? I have heard that the two-stick arrangement was dropped very early but how does the short-stick-on-a-pedestal, RHD lorry fit in? By the way, we have now drifted off-thread a bit: these are 110s, not V8s. I don’t care. I’ll listen to any talk about LBs.
What we need is an informed reason as to why the two types are about (not drivers theories) and if possible a time line if one exists.i dont have the most recent book on lb’s perhaps it’s in there ?
Years ago I bought a daycab LHD Scania 140 from Forge Truck Centre on the A1 it was a 6X2 from around 1969 with hub reduction and they had used it as a wrecker, it is the only 140 i have ever had that had a splitter box fitted, and believe me I have broken up over 600 Scanias.
I have seen Vabis’s fitted with the two stick gear change but I think they were splitter boxes I have not seen that arrangement in any LB’s.
My K reg 140 and 110 (1972)had a range change boxes fitted electric solenoid change, where as my J reg 110 had a splitter operated by a cable slider on the gear knob.
Regards Pat
Patrick Dyer’s recent LB book merely states that the 110 had an air-operated splitter. It does not mention the early two-stick job or long/short gearsticks on left or right hand drive vehicles. What it does say is that the LB was launched in February, but the first UK registered example was on a G, ie August or later. There is a picture of a RHD one at the 1968 Peterborough show, with its cab up. This appears to have a long stick, which extends down, past what looks like a turbocharger heat shield, below the rocker cover.
I remember reading a post on this forum, from someone who remembers driving a two-stick 110- I wonder if that was RHD?
Back to speculation then! My wild guess is that the two-stick was only on very early LHD lorries and the short-stick-switched-splitter arrangement was unique to RHD naturally-aspirated vehicles. Please feel free to disprove this!
The book mentions that the splitter box was replaced by the range-change one in 1971.
mrken:
Are you sure it was the gear lever The early ones had a longer chrome trailer brake handle and the splitter ones had a loopy like type gear knob with a hole in it but I dont know if the v8 ever had a splitter because of the torque
I remember the loopy type gear lever from the 110 that dad drove for Surrey Wharf.