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Spotted this when traveling around the North Island on my holidays. Parked outside The Island Liquor outlet in Papamoa on the east coast... guess that accounts for the signage on the rear! As far as I can see the bonnet reference is somwhere in Antarctica?

Ian

That's awesome!'What a monster. Thanks for sharing the pics.

Jay

What engine does that have to haul that monster around!!

Ghosty.

Seems the were original fitted with a Meadows 10.35 litre petrol engine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPQAqmcsJo4

http://www.historywebsite.co.uk/Museum/ ... eadows.htm

But Ghosty, you will be pleased to know that apparently some have been fitted with a Rolls Royce diesel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RT5ijpdNBoE
Possibly the Rolls-Royce C8SFL 16.2 litre 8-cylinder supercharged diesel engine 333 hp
which was used in the Thornycroft Mighty Antar tank transporter

zBret

zBret wrote:
But Ghosty, you will be pleased to know that apparently some have been fitted with a Rolls Royce diesel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RT5ijpdNBoE
Possibly the Rolls-Royce C8SFL 16.2 litre 8-cylinder supercharged diesel engine 333 hp
which was used in the Thornycroft Mighty Antar tank transporter

zBret

Indeed they were. This one was generating quietly at an event I attended last summer.

There we go, knew the name would crop up somewhere in this thread...

Ghosty.