Ready to go!!!!

[multi power]

Yes...everything is based around a 35

they just added more gear levers and cylinders for the bigger ones

Correct
As you know they got the 35 right so everything after was easy

 

[John 1594]

Correct
As you know they got the 35 right so everything after was easy

it was...till the french got involved

not sure the 35 design was quite all that....look at Harrys ill fated "TE60"

basically a scaled up 20 on steriods with a big engine....it proved unworkable

 

[smcapstick]

How would you go about stopping a Leyland with ten ton behind it ?

A tree, I suppose.

 

[DeeGee]

All I recall about David Browns was that you needed to be a limbo dancing stick insect to get into the cab; and that once you eventually got inside you wanted to get out again.

 

[deano]

Oh those crap db cabs they were bad .

 

[John 1594]

Oh those crap db cabs they were bad .

Odd....those DB cabs were latterly the sekura S80


Same cab as used on yellow leylands, and the latter marshalls when it was realised that putting the name leyland on the side of the bonnet was akin to to going on a dating show and your opening line being "i have an STD"

 

[deano]

I mean the db cab not the sekura.

 

[ridger]

I've never had a problem with the db cab, the 996 we had had the gears in the middle, cab would have done a foot lower though! No way would anyone bang their head on the roof anyway I loved that old tractor, I once had a 1600 gallon tanker on it and a fella came with me for a run and said it took off better than his mf 2640

 

[deano]

I've never had a problem with the db cab, the 996 we had had the gears in the middle, cab would have done a foot lower though! No way would anyone bang their head on the roof anyway I loved that old tractor, I once had a 1600 gallon tanker on it and a fella came with me for a run and said it took off better than his mf 2640

. Well there wouldn't be any carbon in there after pulling that around

 

[Mursal]

said it took off better than his mf 2640

And you believed him?

 

[ridger]

And you believed him?

Wouldn't be hard to do better than that tank of a thing honestly, I loved driving it with the tanker on, gave everyone something to stare at

 

[deano]

I drove a 4690 case with 9000 US gallon tanker plus slurry injection in canada that could shift some stuff