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The Truck Surf Hotel, a two-story, five-room hotel built on a Mercedes Actros truck chassis. Constructed on either a truck chassis, a specially designed motor vehicle chassis, or a commercial bus chassis, a Class A motorhome resembles a bus in design and has a flat or vertical front end with large side windows. Slideouts on these vehicles may ...
Leyland Trucks is a medium- and heavy-duty truck manufacturer based in Leyland, Lancashire, United Kingdom.It can trace its origins back to the original Leyland Motors, which was founded in 1896, and subsequently evolved into British Leyland.
From 1961 to 1968, General Motors Argentina manufactured Bedford trucks [10] and truck-based buses [11] in a plant at San Martín, Buenos Aires. 1967 Bedford SB mobile cinema In 1967, a Bedford SB3 chassis with Plaxton 's Panorama cab was used in the construction of seven custom mobile cinema units that toured British factories for the Ministry ...
The Dodge 100 was intended to use a Rootes diesel engine, but noise regulations ruled out the reliable but noisy Rootes units.In the end, naturally aspirated and turbocharged four- and six-cylinder Perkins diesel engines (locally made in the UK) were used for lighter weights, with the Mercedes-Benz OM352 offered as a premium engine (due largely to the reputation of Mercedes in Europe, where ...
The first steam-driven motorhome was the Quo Vadis (France,1900) and the first gasoline-driven motorhome was the Passe Partout (France, 1902). [11] The first recorded powered motorhomes in America were the 'camp cars' of Roy Faye and Freeman Young of 1904–06 (a 1904 Rambler, 1905 Thomas Flyer and 1906 Matheson).
Preserved 1944 Bedford QL truck, at a rally in Hertfortshire, 2011 Preserved Bedford QL refueling truck, built for the Royal Air Force 1954 Bedford S-type Bedford truck on duty with the British Army in Bosnia, as part of SFOR. The Bedford Dunstable plant was a truck and bus vehicle assembly plant, located in Dunstable, Bedfordshire, England.
Old Buda 8-cylinder Diesel engine. Buda-Lanova engines were also used by the Whitcomb Locomotive Works of Rochelle IL. Two Buda-Lanova model DCS 1879 6 cylinder supercharged Diesel engines (6.75 bore x 8.75 stroke, 325 hp @ 1,200 rpm) were installed in both 65-DE-14a and 65-DE-19a Diesel electric centercab locomotives that were purchased by the Army and shipped over to Africa and Europe during ...
This was the first purpose-built motor vehicle factory in Britain. [2] Their range of cars was quickly extended to 12 hp, 14 hp, 16 and 20 hp chassis fitted with tourer, town car and limousine bodies. From the Dennis Brothers stand at the 1903 Crystal Palace Motor Show the brothers sold almost £30,000 worth of cars and took many more orders. [3]