-----Original Message-----
From: JOHN SEIDTS <john@astory.com>
To: mil-veh@skylee.com <mil-veh@skylee.com>
Date: 04 December 1999 01:10
Subject: [MV] Post on a newsgroup- WWII Truck from the UK brand Tornicroft ?
>Saw this on a newsgroup. Can anybody help him?
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: laurentc <cr26648@unspammed.chello.be>
>Newsgroups: alt.autos.classic-trucks,uk.rec.cars.misc
>Date: Monday, November 29, 1999 2:44 PM
>Subject: WWII Truck from the UK brand Tornicroft ?
>
>
>>Hi Folks,
>>
>>I'm looking for info (or links to search further) about a truck
>>brandnamed Tornicroft.
>>This is a multi-purpose truck used during WWII.
>>I own a specimen buit in 1938 and equipped with a crane.
>>
Well, at a guess we're talking Thornycroft of Basingstoke here, an older, small
truck firm now defunct and absorbed by the Leyland Group, but well served by
specialist societies. The early war examples would be 30cwt GF/TC4 and HF/TC4,
later types the 3 ton WZ/TC4, ZS/TC4 and the 4x4 "Nubian" TF/AC4/1 up to the 4x6
"Tartar" WO/AC4, WOF/AC4 and WOF/DC4.
The Thornycroft "Amazon" WF/AC6/1 and 2 was also supplied with a mounted Coles
crane rated at 5 tons.
Post W.W.II Thornycroft made the highly successful "Antar" heavy tractor
initially as a specialised commercial order for a middle east oil pipeline
hauler which was subsequently taken up by the military as both a ballast and as
a fifth wheel tractor with specialised trailers as the MBT prime mover replacing
the ageing Scammell and Diamond T units. Civilian Antars used a Rover diesel
version of the RR Meteorite V8 gas engine, this being a sawn-off version of the
V12 Meteor MBT engine which is in fact a RR Merlin without the supercharger.
All the earlier mil versions being gas types with useful common engine parts to
the Meteor powered tanks of the time, later marks had both the naturally
aspirated and turbo charged versions of the RR C6 diesel.
There is likely some web presence of the Thornycroft Society, the correct
spelling always helps when doing a search !
Richard
(Southampton UK)
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