Posted - 12/05/2009 : 16:01
My husband had a Reliant Robin when we were newly wed. He only had a motorbike licence at the time, but he could drive the Reliant. I have some scary memories of driving over the M62 in very high winds, and a vague idea that a piece of string replaced the failed wiper motor. Some things are best forgotten!
Posted - 13/05/2009 : 06:59
Do you remember the case of the Reliant Robin owner who was prosecuted for doing 90mph? I forget the outcome but the general view was that this was incredible!
Stanley Challenger Graham
Barlick View stanley at barnoldswick.freeserve.co.uk
Posted - 19/05/2009 : 16:04
Hubby informs me our Bison was a 1973 - our youngest daughter Jayne was like Margaret - happiest in the cab with her dad - she used to come back with a pocketful of money for helping to unload 50kg bags of sand & cement.
Posted - 20/05/2009 : 07:10
Moh, it would have the Leyland 600 engine in it or a later variant. How I would have loved to have had that engine in the Comet..... But I would have wanted to keep my Albion box and the Eaton axle. Now that would have been a fast wagon over a long run. To todays drivers these would be small beer as regards power but in those days we quite happily set off with 14 tons gross on a Bedford TK with an engine that on a good day made just 90hp! They don't know they are born!!!! Your hubby will remember the Guy Otters with the three pot Gardner tramming round slowly but reliably with just 60hp. I've seen them with ten tons on the flat.
Stanley Challenger Graham
Barlick View stanley at barnoldswick.freeserve.co.uk
Posted - 20/05/2009 : 16:56
Actually an Albion Reiver Moh but part of Leyland. The Reiver had the same 400 engine as the Comet and it was hard pressed. At night, going up the A74 to Scotland you could see the blue flame coming out of the tailpipe, they were working so hard. Same on the Comet and you needed a new silencer every six months.
Stanley Challenger Graham
Barlick View stanley at barnoldswick.freeserve.co.uk