Thanks Graham, the likes of which will not be seen again regularly on our roads thank goodness, the smell of diesel after refuelling used to stick to you and the clothes for quite some time, if you refuelled too quickly then it would froth to the top and would have to wait for it to subside before continuing!! Some trucks used to black smoke badly up hills even though at that time there were supposedly not allowed to!Waht an interesting "collection" Nigel
Thanks Kevin, I'll wait until you have tried a pickled egg vinegar then!I don't know, as I've never had a pickled egg. The onion vinegar gives a mild onion flavour so I guess you'd get a slight eggy flavour from the pickled egg vinegar. There's only one way to find out.
Kevin
That would be the splitter Brian, it gives an extra half gear the same as in the Volvo 88 which gave it 16 gears. I never used the splitter much just elected to keep it in high for the 1-4th gear although 1st was rarely used and just went from second to fourth then as soon as I slipped into 5th gear it would already be selected down (low gear) and only selected high once in top gear. With the Merc and because it was a V engine when reaching 1500 RPM I used to press the function button which would automatically miss a gear say from 5th to 7th made for really easy driving and my fuel economy doing that was between 7-8 MPG which was considered good!!Thanks very much for sharing your stories and the pics, Nigel. I've only been behind the wheel of a truck once...back in the 80's. A friend and I were hauling pig feed to a farm. The truck had a high and low speed for each gear.
Stopping a fully loaded HGV at 38 tonnes is much improved over the 1970 and 80's period, I used to hate it when a motorist pulled out of a junction when I was not far off and just accelerate slowly, more so to the drivers who try to move into the 1st lane of the motorway when it is not clear or safe to do so but yet still pull in front of fast moving traffic!!
I have hijacked this thread long enough so please carry on with.........what was it about?
Regards
Nigel.