Last week I had an enjoyable couple of days on a course up at Wen2rth Park near Barnsley. The notion was to understand all about the wonders and advances of Mercedes-Benz trucks compared to it competitors and even from exactly where I’m standing it is challenging to see why you wouldn’t run MB on your fleet in some capacity. Absolutely everyone knows and thinks it’s funny I’m such a Scania fan but I function for Mercedes-Benz, but as my typical readers will know back in the days of operating my personal trucks Mercedes had been the only choice for me. I’ve techniques maintained that if I was ever to commence once again I would have an all MB fleet but have some old Scania or 2 for the show circuit. The only factor that has changed considering that my time at Orwell Trucks Mercedes-Benz is that I believe if possibly have to have an old SK or Powerliner for the show season too.
So picture my delight when parked close to the entrance of my education course was this delightfully restored 1834LS. The automobile has been restored by MB and is to be kept and utilised at various shows, in truth some of you would have noticed it at the Retro Truck Show at Gaydon last year.
The vehicle was originally sold by Rygor Commercials to a business known as Premier Waste. It should have then been returned after contract hire to Mercedes-Benz where it was as soon as once again bought by Rygor Commercials (this was most likely to be a paperwork exercise and the car would have stayed at Rygors). In 2003 Rygor loaned the automobile to SDC, a division of Honda at Swindon, exactly where it was utilised as a shunter. Then in 2009 it was bought once more by MB Authorized Utilized Commercials. Because then the truck has been restored and repainted making use of genuine components where feasible. I consider she’s lovely though I’m sorry to say we didn’t have time for a lesson in driving an EPS gearbox correctly….1 day. I have located a nice LHD 1953 for sale in Holland, tempting. The truck spec is listed as follows
- 1st registered 6 November 1995 (N reg)
– Engine V6 Turbo 340hp
– 8 Speed Split EPS Gearbox
– L Sleeper cab
– ABS brakes
– Drivers electric window
– Electric rear view mirror
– Luxury suspension seat for the driver
– Sunvisor
– 400 Litre fuel tank
What a small gem. I’m back at Wen2rth Park in a handful of weeks so I hope to attain the EPS coaching, if your reading Nick Smith?!? Any way this not the only retro truck, there had been also 2 original Long Distance cabbed Mercedes-Benz Actros. Both trucks have genuine mileages of only a handful of hundred thousand Kilometres on the clock and are in excellent condition although I had forgotten how garishly awful the original seat covers and door cards had been. Any way lots to see on this course so I hope the next one is just as enjoyable.
Retro Power Lining
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