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BUT NOT ANY ORDINARY GUY ARAB
As Top Gear's star turn would say through heavily jowled sarcasm. "This is a Guy Arab (pause), but its not any old Guy Arab (another long pause) oh dear me no".
Originally delivered to Lincoln Corporation in 1949 (I think) with a Meadows 6DC 10.35 litre engine, hence the short bonnet and wings. Meadows, who had a factory next to Guy's at Fallings Park, 6DC engine was an attempt by Guy to provide their customers with some thing more powerful and refined than the Gardener 6LW and more akin to Leyland and AEC's 9.8 and 9.6 litre offerings.
However allthough very powerful (135bhp) and fleet of foot, it was not very well designed or rubust. Operators generally replaced them with something else, when something drastic happened, rather than try to repair the 6DC. I think their speciality was snapping their crankshafts.
So I think this Guy inherited a Leyland E181 7.4 litre engine normally found in the PD1 and PS1 models, which was short enough to fit the resultant gap left by the 6DC.
Later on the bus was used by local firm Ruston's as a testbed for their air cooled 8.6 litre diesel engine, that they were then developing in the late fifties.
To this day this is the engine the bus retains, and develops about 120bhp and revs up to about 2,200rpm (I think).
So the Guy is quite quick if somewhat noisy. Still it adds to the fun.
If you get a chanceto peek at the engine it is so simple as to be unbelivable. Definitely a striking contrast to today's offerings which can look and probably are, extremely complicated.
BUT NOT ANY ORDINARY GUY ARAB
As Top Gear's star turn would say through heavily jowled sarcasm. "This is a Guy Arab (pause), but its not any old Guy Arab (another long pause) oh dear me no".
Originally delivered to Lincoln Corporation in 1949 (I think) with a Meadows 6DC 10.35 litre engine, hence the short bonnet and wings. Meadows, who had a factory next to Guy's at Fallings Park, 6DC engine was an attempt by Guy to provide their customers with some thing more powerful and refined than the Gardener 6LW and more akin to Leyland and AEC's 9.8 and 9.6 litre offerings.
However allthough very powerful (135bhp) and fleet of foot, it was not very well designed or rubust. Operators generally replaced them with something else, when something drastic happened, rather than try to repair the 6DC. I think their speciality was snapping their crankshafts.
So I think this Guy inherited a Leyland E181 7.4 litre engine normally found in the PD1 and PS1 models, which was short enough to fit the resultant gap left by the 6DC.
Later on the bus was used by local firm Ruston's as a testbed for their air cooled 8.6 litre diesel engine, that they were then developing in the late fifties.
To this day this is the engine the bus retains, and develops about 120bhp and revs up to about 2,200rpm (I think).
So the Guy is quite quick if somewhat noisy. Still it adds to the fun.
If you get a chanceto peek at the engine it is so simple as to be unbelivable. Definitely a striking contrast to today's offerings which can look and probably are, extremely complicated.