I think you would feel more at home in our workshop bma.!!
i,ll whith you on that bewick, our firm is much smaller ,but we have and had about 12 scannis moust of them we have left ,only have 1 volvo to compare.scannies in my opinion have faults but they have never let my down,it,s like whit women,you know what you have, 
but 
cheers b
Bewick:
OEC755V,coupled to Bo-Alloy Tautliner in the depot at Milnthorpe.
OEC 226V leaving the depot one Friday afternoon when it was on the K. Fell fleet,it sure did work hard with the great,late Alf Bellamy at the wheel.
bma.finland:
well bewick you had class on your motor,s. i,ll could even to day drive one
this was mine first own. from -79 had it for some years as a"bride"
Evening Gentlemen, you know the trouble with these threads, they bring the memories flooding back!! bma, that 111, well it is a beautiful looking outfit, but just like Denniss photograph of his 111 with a BoAlloy Tautliner behind it, (the worlds best ever curtainsider, bar none)!!! I think in both cases the trailers out class the motive units! I earned a fair few "bob", with second hand 111s, and they were not bad lorries, (again except for the awfull gearboxes), both in Europe, and the UK, but I have never understood why people rate them so highly. I suppose that they came along just when there was a gap in the market, and were available, (at a competitive price), certainly in the UK, and also in France, and the Benelux Countries, but spare part prices, availability, and reliability, were no better than many competitive machines, so why were they rated so highly? Is it another "road transport myth"■■ Im back to the Bollinger, (to think about it)! Cheerio for now.
Hello everyone,
These pics are from an episode of The Persuaders (Gold Napoleon) well worth a watch, get a walk around view.
We love these cabs
James
hej saviem,will give you the answer from mine point of the weue.i.ll now the gearbox was and is difficult the engines are not better and specly 2 /3 series cab was small even when it was lansed. i,ll know the driveaxle can broke(especly V-8 whit lifted tag drawbar loaded,a missing whit clutch an there you are).BUT i.ll know that on my yard i have an old on, and suprise most of the teknikal parts are same for years and years(suspension engine gearbox drivaxle drivescaft and so on)Living on countrysite behindtwo ferries ,for my,(knowing the fault,s and how to fix them)scania is best.and almost forget the aftersales is more important then anyting else when you live in the “outback”.so there better motors in some way better engines and gearboxis, but the best for my is scania hej benkku
cab in parts
I don’t recognise the negative comments that both “Saviem” or “bma.” have made about the un-reliability of the Scania 111.Having run quite a few at Bewick Transport in the 70’s,80’s and into the 90’s they gave us absolutely,unrivalled, faultless service and their successor model both P and R cabs continued in the same manner! I can only “speak as I found” and the Scanias were by far the best motors we ran during 30 years of operating.As for spares prices,we really didn’t by a lot considering the numbers we ran,and when we did rebuild a Scania engine after it had covered many '000’s of miles the rebuild was quite economical and then the motor went back into extended,reliable,service.We never experienced major engine faliures out on the road,all the rebuilds were done when the miles had been covered and you knew a particular motor was starting to exhibted a bit of tiredness !!! We did have a couple of propshaft faliures on the lighter '82’s but on each occaision it was down,very definitely, to bad driving,and of course, the Scania prop is designed to fail thus saving major aggro with stripping a diff out to retrieve a broken halfshaft.Anyway thats my “two pen’arth” regarding the experiences we had of Scanias at Bewick Transport,and I’m sticking to it !!! Cheers Dennis.
Bewick:
I don’t recognise the negative comments that both “Saviem” or “bma.” have made about the un-reliability of the Scania 111.Having run quite a few at Bewick Transport in the 70’s,80’s and into the 90’s they gave us absolutely,unrivalled, faultless service and their successor model both P and R cabs continued in the same manner! I can only “speak as I found” and the Scanias were by far the best motors we ran during 30 years of operating.As for spares prices,we really didn’t by a lot considering the numbers we ran,and when we did rebuild a Scania engine after it had covered many '000’s of miles the rebuild was quite economical and then the motor went back into extended,reliable,service.We never experienced major engine faliures out on the road,all the rebuilds were done when the miles had been covered and you knew a particular motor was starting to exhibted a bit of tiredness !!! We did have a couple of propshaft faliures on the lighter '82’s but on each occaision it was down,very definitely, to bad driving,and of course, the Scania prop is designed to fail thus saving major aggro with stripping a diff out to retrieve a broken halfshaft.Anyway thats my “two pen’arth” regarding the experiences we had of Scanias at Bewick Transport,and I’m sticking to it !!! Cheers Dennis.
Hej Dennis, i,ll in fact have no bad experiencis of any of meny Scania,s i have driven and owned.The thing is i have now and then driven whit ouf FH12, for 6 months a avful N12 in the middle of 80 and we had in lokal work aFl614. becouse i have so little experience of other motors,the meaning in the quite to saviem was I AM VERY HAPPY WHIT SCANIA AND AS LONG I CAN BUY AND RUN THEM I NEVER EVER CHANGE BRAND OVER 16TN MOTORS,SKÅL FÖR SKÅNE BENKKU fact is as whit any motor they have to be treated like awife,when learn to listen in right way you avoid truble and i know my scannies werv well
Bewick:
I don’t recognise the negative comments that both “Saviem” or “bma.” have made about the un-reliability of the Scania 111.Having run quite a few at Bewick Transport in the 70’s,80’s and into the 90’s they gave us absolutely,unrivalled, faultless service and their successor model both P and R cabs continued in the same manner! I can only “speak as I found” and the Scanias were by far the best motors we ran during 30 years of operating.As for spares prices,we really didn’t by a lot considering the numbers we ran,and when we did rebuild a Scania engine after it had covered many '000’s of miles the rebuild was quite economical and then the motor went back into extended,reliable,service.We never experienced major engine faliures out on the road,all the rebuilds were done when the miles had been covered and you knew a particular motor was starting to exhibted a bit of tiredness !!! We did have a couple of propshaft faliures on the lighter '82’s but on each occaision it was down,very definitely, to bad driving,and of course, the Scania prop is designed to fail thus saving major aggro with stripping a diff out to retrieve a broken halfshaft.Anyway thats my “two pen’arth” regarding the experiences we had of Scanias at Bewick Transport,and I’m sticking to it !!! Cheers Dennis.
I totally agree with Dennis I ran many many Scanias 110’s 111’s 112’s 113’s 140’s 142’s and am still running a 1989 143! Their reliability was and is incredible.
Engines never really gave many problems gearboxes were a pain at times with the common problem of jumping out of top gear on the early models, also the rangechanges had a habit of dropping out the swivel bungs that carried the change fork refitting with plent of loctite cured that. Regarding the propshafts we made sure we greased the prop every week and that then gave us much greater reliability. , Another minor irritation was the wiper motors which sometimes burnt out the motor or more commonly stripped the fibre wheel, to cure this we always took the middle wiper off and moved the nearside up a bit to reduce the drag.
Regards Pat
I dont think anyone tested the strength of a Scania like we did at Wyatt,s and they came out on top!
bma.finland:
Bewick:
I don’t recognise the negative comments that both “Saviem” or “bma.” have made about the un-reliability of the Scania 111.Having run quite a few at Bewick Transport in the 70’s,80’s and into the 90’s they gave us absolutely,unrivalled, faultless service and their successor model both P and R cabs continued in the same manner! I can only “speak as I found” and the Scanias were by far the best motors we ran during 30 years of operating.As for spares prices,we really didn’t by a lot considering the numbers we ran,and when we did rebuild a Scania engine after it had covered many '000’s of miles the rebuild was quite economical and then the motor went back into extended,reliable,service.We never experienced major engine faliures out on the road,all the rebuilds were done when the miles had been covered and you knew a particular motor was starting to exhibted a bit of tiredness !!! We did have a couple of propshaft faliures on the lighter '82’s but on each occaision it was down,very definitely, to bad driving,and of course, the Scania prop is designed to fail thus saving major aggro with stripping a diff out to retrieve a broken halfshaft.Anyway thats my “two pen’arth” regarding the experiences we had of Scanias at Bewick Transport,and I’m sticking to it !!! Cheers Dennis.Hej Dennis, i,ll in fact have no bad experiencis of any of meny Scania,s i have driven and owned.The thing is i have now and then driven whit ouf FH12, for 6 months a avful N12 in the middle of 80 and we had in lokal work aFl614. becouse i have so little experience of other motors,the meaning in the quite to saviem was I AM VERY HAPPY WHIT SCANIA AND AS LONG I CAN BUY AND RUN THEM I NEVER EVER CHANGE BRAND OVER 16TN MOTORS,SKÃ…L FÖR SKÃ…NE BENKKU
It’s called “backwatering” in English bma. !!! You’ve gone from critisizing Scanias in your previous post to acknowledging,in this last post, that they are the very best motor available !! Big Chief Sitting Bull of the Lacota Souix would say " Him bma. speak with fork tongue" 
Cheers Bewick.
A couple I ran
Regards Pat
com .on folk,s off couse im mine opinion SCANIA IS BEST BENKKU
bma.finland:
com .on folk,s off couse im mine opinion SCANIA IS BEST
OK we believe you bma. ! Whats BENKKU in English ? not a swear word I hope !!! 
realistic we all know every motor have weakneses ,when you know them they do no harm, and dennis i.ll tryed to be a litle ironic to mr saviem ,who i have respect for his knowles,but wanted to say that whit some faults SCANIA IS BETTER AND TOTAL ECONOMICAL THEN ANY ELSE MOTOR I KNOW ABOUT 
so i.ll never said if you read again my quite to saviem that scania was or is unreiable,cheers benkku,don,t no what that means real name is BENGT,maybee autotransit know to translate it
bma.finland:
realistic we all know every motor have weakneses ,when you know them they do no harm, and dennis i.ll tryed to be a litle ironic to mr saviem ,who i have respect for his knowles,but wanted to say that whit some faults SCANIA IS BETTER AND TOTAL ECONOMICAL THEN ANY ELSE MOTOR I KNOW ABOUT
I realise that you have run Scanias for many years and have had great service from them,regardless of minor problems that have been experienced during those years bma.!!! It would not have been possible to have replaced the Scania with a more reliable marque in your part of the world ( even a French model!!) take no notice of “Saviem” he’ll have been drinking Bollinger champagne which tends to warp the memory a little bit!!!You and I have to make do with a few cans of Stella or Carlsberg Special well not much Special or we may start saying how good "all things French are"and we’ll then have “Fergie 47” on the thread trying to sell us rough French Rougue and some Camenbert cheese !!! Only on the “wind up” lads! Dennis. 
Benkku is the nickname for Bengt, but I know some swearwords in Finnish… and I can order sausage and beer in Finland 
Another LBS110 from 1968. It´s only 24 meters, so it was a step back from the previous vehicles from the sixties when there was no length regulations
/Stellan