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hair bear wrote:So what was the design weight of the S type? That one looks a little full.
Hi Rob,
The S Type was designed as a 7 tonner.
The legal limit was 14 tons gross which allowed us to carry a payload of just over 9 tons which we all did, and a bit more if we thought we could get away with it.
The one in the pic has a big lightweight coal body, (9 / 10 cubic yards), and would legally have carried about 9.25 tons.
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essexpete wrote:I'll bet that was a sluggish beast when fully loaded then?
Yes Pete, Plenty of gear changing. The two speed axles were well used too.
I did drive an S Type occasionally but we were into the old Dodge Kew, (Hell Driver type), at that time.
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I remember driving an S Type 7 ton Tipper with a Perkins R6 in it. Also drove a Leyland engined one on a Low loader.
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Were they not known as the "Big Bedford" or was that just the Dinky Toy version?
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Here's another blast from the past featuring an almost forgotten product of British engineering.
In the early 1960s I worked as foreman fitter for a Yorkshire based company, Wm. Pepper, they were part of the Hargreaves Group.
They were running some coal reclamation and screening jobs here in South Wales.
They had several "Sentinel" generators for driving screens etc. on hire from Manchester based Dawson & Keith. These ran 24 hours a day six days a week and they were pretty good.
Because they were so far from home we did the service and repair on them ourselves.
I was reminded of this when I saw the pic. below of a Sentinel genny. on the net.
They were a Sentinel product not just someone using their engine, I think they used a Maudslay alternator end.
The engines were designed to sit between the chassis of the Sentinel Lorries , probably a throw back to the sentinel steamers, so they were horizontal six cylinder units with some very unusual features. Below is the four cylinder version showing the injector pump and water pump driven by bevel gears from the front of the crank shaft. The cam shaft was also gear driven but from the flywheel end of the crankshaft.
The earlier engines were indirect injection with Ricardo designed Heads but a direct injection version was introduced at some later stage.
Here are a couple of reminders of the lorries.
In the early 1960s I worked as foreman fitter for a Yorkshire based company, Wm. Pepper, they were part of the Hargreaves Group.
They were running some coal reclamation and screening jobs here in South Wales.
They had several "Sentinel" generators for driving screens etc. on hire from Manchester based Dawson & Keith. These ran 24 hours a day six days a week and they were pretty good.
Because they were so far from home we did the service and repair on them ourselves.
I was reminded of this when I saw the pic. below of a Sentinel genny. on the net.
They were a Sentinel product not just someone using their engine, I think they used a Maudslay alternator end.
The engines were designed to sit between the chassis of the Sentinel Lorries , probably a throw back to the sentinel steamers, so they were horizontal six cylinder units with some very unusual features. Below is the four cylinder version showing the injector pump and water pump driven by bevel gears from the front of the crank shaft. The cam shaft was also gear driven but from the flywheel end of the crankshaft.
The earlier engines were indirect injection with Ricardo designed Heads but a direct injection version was introduced at some later stage.
Here are a couple of reminders of the lorries.
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FOWLER MAN wrote:
The engines were designed to sit between the chassis of the Sentinel Lorries , probably a throw back to the sentinel steamers, so they were horizontal six cylinder units with some very unusual features. Below is the four cylinder version showing the injector pump and water pump driven by bevel gears from the front of the crank shaft. The cam shaft was also gear driven but from the flywheel end of the crankshaft.
The earlier engines were indirect injection with Ricardo designed Heads but a direct injection version was introduced at some later stage.
Here are a couple of reminders of the lorries.
Those engines remind me of the even more radical Commer TS3s (Tilling Stevens) with three cylinders, six pistons, one crank and an assortment of con rods and rockers - oh yes, and a supercharger!
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