TOG, Wegg, etc etc and bike repairs!

That is the most sick and perverted site I've seen in a long time.

The TS3 engine appeals, though. Didja ever see the Bentley lookalike
powered by a TS3 engine? Some mad bugger built it a few years back.
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http://www.sa.hillman.org.au/TS3.htm

Heh. **** me, it's like a baby Deltic.

 

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Good. God.

That *must* have been conceived during a particularly long lunch at the
Dog & Duck.

How on *Earth* did we lose the Empire?

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Suzuki TS250 "The Africa Single" Yamaha GTS1000

 

Those whom the gods would destroy, they first make sober...

 

Good God.

 

We didn't, it was given away by white liberal apologists
HTH ;o)

 

Rather that the Deltic was a grown-up TS3.

I am given to understand that it was a concept lifted wholesale from one
of the Luftwaffe's more successful elements, M'Lud.

 

My god it's wonderful but I imagine it would struggle with modern noise
regs!

 

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It was certainly *VERY* noisy, and the pitch of the note was painful. I
hitched a lift in one in the early '60s, and it screamed down Shap and
thundered up the other side.

 

Didn't Foden have a similar one, or was it the same one. Seen one on the
road, and it makes an amazing noise.

 

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Not sure. The only Foden I ever knew well was the one which delivered
our coal in the 'forties and early 'fifties, and it was missing its
ashpan, so cyclists had to beware finding hot cinders on the road it had
travelled...

I liked it, and the flue which came out of the cab roof.

 

One of the best sounds of the era that was -provided you didn't live near a
hill on a trunk road and have them going by all night.
I believe that the piston crowns were wont to become detached, but all would
be well until the engine stopped. It just wouldn't start again...

Ropn Robinson

 

I gather they had temperature issues - ran much hotter than the more typical
5LW Gardner or similar of the period and had to be cooled down by running at
idle for a few minutes when it had been running hard. failure to do this
was supposed to lead to thermal stresses that buggered the engine.

 

The Luftwaffe had an Empire?

 

It struggled with the noise regs in its day. Later ones had four
silencers in series. I was playing with TS3s a few weeks ago - I was
the person who knew the secret of how to start one. You tell people and
they don't believe you at first, but it works and it doesn't take long
to work out why it works. And it is... get someone to put their hand
over the exhaust pipe while you crank it over.

 

Glad to hear there's still some about. Have you a local collector of
interesting trucks or what?

Ron Robinson

 

Ipswich Transport Museum has one. It's a flat bed, ex Green & Skinner,
an Ipswich haulier who ran several of them. There's also an engine on
display. Cranfields in Ipswich used TS3s - mostly artics. As they
reached the end of their life they were used for shunting round Ipswich
Docks. Many years ago, when I was in the Ipswich Transport Preservation
Group, we bought one of these tractor units and converted it to a
breakdown truck. Despite all it had been through in its life up to
then, it still gave excellent service dragging trolleybuses out of
fields - the engine seemed pretty much unbreakable. It would pull well
at a tickover too. Which brings us to a classic 2-smoke story (I've
told it before, but I think it was in another place):

We were shifting buses about and towing buses with a rope, dotting them
around a car park while we sorted out the best order to pack them away
in a big building we rented. Several of us standing about, Colin
driving the TS3, I can't remember who was in the bus. Colin gets out of
the TS3 while it's still trundling slowly forward, strolls back to the
bus and asks the driver where he'd like to stop. "Here will do" say the
driver, and put the bus's brake on. The TS3 tries to keep pulling, but
gives up and stalls ... but the tension in the rope pulls it back and
the engine starts up again running backwards. As the TS3 accelerates
towards the bus there's a general scramble as everybody runs to pull the
engine stop. Colin got there first...

Lots of 2-smokes will run backwards, but the TS3 is a bit different
because the blower becomes a sucker. Air is drawn up the exhaust pipe
and the exhaust blows out of the air filters. If the floor panels don't
fit too well, the cab quickly fills with smoke.

 

Aberystwyth - Berlin.

 

Bangor - Holywood. Repeatedly...

 

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ROTFLMAO!

Classic.

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WS* GHPOTHUF#24 APOSTLE#14 DLC#1 COFF#20 BOTAFOT#150 HYPO#0(KoTL) IbW#41
SBS#39 OMF#6 Enfield 500 Curry House Racer "The Basmati Rice Burner",
Honda GL1000K2 (On its hols) Kawasaki ZN1300 Voyager "Oh, Oh, It's so big"
Suzuki TS250 "The Africa Single" Yamaha GTS1000