I bought a big and joined the circus.

[puddlethumper]

I was in Hartlepool to collect a thing with wheels yesterday. 6 wheels to be precise. I alluded to it in the News thread. Before I reveal what, perhaps a little guessing game. It's 30ft long, Cummins 8.3 dizzle, Garret turbot and is left hand drive with a four speed Allison automatic gearbag. As I said in the News I don't think one has ever been on here although I could be wrong. Come on shiters have a guess, as there may be a small prize.

[junkyarddog]

Winnebago?

[Matty]

Tease

[Crackers]

I was reading the Cummins thread and as I was struggling to think of any UK vehicles with that engine, I reckon it must be an RV of some kind or an American bus.

[Tommyboy12]

Yellow school bus. Without question.

[Inspector Morose]

Didn’t the Ram have the six pot Cummins?
Years ago a Canadian artist came to our garage on the scrounge for some bus bits. He’d imported his pickup and I’m sure a 6bt was looking back at me.

[Crackers]

5 minutes ago, Inspector Morose said:

Didn’t the Ram have the six pot Cummins?
Years ago a Canadian artist came to our garage on the scrounge for some bus bits. He’d imported his pickup and I’m sure a 6bt was looking back at me.

Yeah, they do, but the 6BT isn't 8.3 litres.

[bunglebus]

[Dyslexic Viking]

[Inspector Morose]

1 minute ago, Crackers said:

Yeah, they do, but the 6BT isn't 8.3 litres.

Oh, a C then?

If so, does it have the optional velcro engine mounts? (I have low opinions of Cs).

[gm]

Airport fire truck ? 
 

[Bren]

Ford military tractor unit?

[SteersWithThrottle]

1 hour ago, Crackers said:

I was reading the Cummins thread and as I was struggling to think of any UK vehicles with that engine, I reckon it must be an RV of some kind or an American bus.

ERF used Cummins engines in some of theirs.

[willswitchengage]

59 minutes ago, Dyslexic Viking said:

I'm also going for something like M939.

An airport fire truck would have a much larger engine!

[SteersWithThrottle]

Please tell me it's this Leyland Martian...  😁

 

https://hmvf.co.uk/topic/36936-new-to-me-leyland-martian/

[Crackers]

5 minutes ago, SteersWithThrottle said:

ERF used Cummins engines in some of theirs.

I was specifically thinking of the 8.3 though - I know the 6B/6BT, L10, M11, N14 etc were used in all sorts over here but I couldn't come up with any UK market answers for the 8.3 C series.

[SteersWithThrottle]

1 minute ago, Crackers said:

I was specifically thinking of the 8.3 though - I know the 6B/6BT, L10, M11, N14 etc were used in all sorts over here but I couldn't come up with any UK market answers for the 8.3 C series.

Ah, my bad, misread your post slightly

[Crackers]

ERF E8 or EC8, I suppose would have been a 6CT. Can't be many of them knocking about nowadays though. Not sure what else.

[stuboy]

show us!!

[83C]

38 minutes ago, Crackers said:

I was specifically thinking of the 8.3 though - I know the 6B/6BT, L10, M11, N14 etc were used in all sorts over here but I couldn't come up with any UK market answers for the 8.3 C series.

Bus use - Dennis Dart SPD, Trident and Javelin all used the C series.

[puddlethumper]

Bugger me. (not literally) Grub on, down the neck and @junkyarddog got it with the first guess. More or less. Oh well.

Yes it's a Spartan Gulfstream 30ft motorhome although not made by Winnebago but by Spartan.

Here ya go.

[Fumbler]

Oh my.

[Crackers]

8 minutes ago, 83C said:

Bus use - Dennis Dart SPD, Trident and Javelin all used the C series.

Ah. I know nothing about buzzes.

[Mally]

Looks quite tidy.

Have you driven it down, or are you living up there now?

[hairnet]

is morose or campbell queueing to get a go

how scary would north devon or cornwall or very rural wales be in that

 

[sutty2006]

Pictures needed of inside! I love these, proper home from home. But I do fancy an m938/9 or an m35 reo one day. Mmmmmm. 
 

6bt is a 5.9 is it not. 

[HMC]

Wow. And those wipers. Can we have a vid of them sweeping ? (Are they air powered?)

[brownnova]

Good Lord that’s huge! 

 

 

And the truck is pretty sizeable too! 

[timolloyd]

Just about room for your balls of steel in there.

[willswitchengage]

41 minutes ago, 83C said:

Bus use - Dennis Dart SPD, Trident and Javelin all used the C series.

I thought the Dart just used Bs (with a strange tone difference between the early and later variants)? I believe the larger and rarer Lance had the C series.

ZOMG though, what a symphony.

Edit - I think their last fire trucks also used the C series, albeit they must have been only 4x2s.