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Re: grob_2011_01_17 (6)
« Reply #25 on: February 02, 2011, 04:45:51 AM »
Well, it being a special engine, Thornycroft been taken over by AEC at the time, AEC belonging to Leyland, and considering the hottest theme in truck engines at that time of plenty of gazoline, I guess it is a Leyland gas turbine engine.
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Re: grob_2011_01_17 (6)
« Reply #26 on: February 02, 2011, 05:25:46 AM »
I´ve got to check it when I´ll be back home.

Still locked for you of course.
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Re: grob_2011_01_17 (6)
« Reply #27 on: February 02, 2011, 03:16:37 PM »
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Well, it being a special engine, Thornycroft been taken over by AEC at the time, AEC belonging to Leyland, and considering the hottest theme in truck engines at that time of plenty of gazoline, I guess it is a Leyland gas turbine engine.

computer says no...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOdjCb4LwQY

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Re: grob_2011_01_17 (6)
« Reply #28 on: February 03, 2011, 02:13:18 AM »
Some Thornycroft Nubian featured Rolls-Royce engines. Is it one of those?
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Re: grob_2011_01_17 (6)
« Reply #29 on: February 03, 2011, 07:42:38 AM »
Now I´ll give you the point!

This prototype has been on duty at Helsinki airport.

It´s a Ginge/Thornycroft MS 20000 crash tender prototype car, a one-off as far as I know.

It has been featured in an official Rolls-Royce engine magazine advertisement.
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Re: Ginge/Thornycroft MS 20000 RR-engined crash tender prototype
« Reply #30 on: February 03, 2011, 07:55:29 AM »
It still exists:


Ginge was a Copenhagen based company. It moved in 1972, making this truck from before 1972. I found a source stating 1961.
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Re: Ginge/Thornycroft MS 20000 RR-engined crash tender prototype
« Reply #31 on: February 03, 2011, 07:57:39 AM »
Is that a Finnish number plate?

Well, I can answer it myself, just found the pic in the web: it is at the Finnish Aviation Museum in Helsinki.

And as I see now, you already mentioned Helsinki airport  :doh:
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Re: Ginge/Thornycroft MS 20000 RR-engined crash tender prototype
« Reply #32 on: February 03, 2011, 08:23:29 AM »
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Re: Ginge/Thornycroft MS 20000 RR-engined crash tender prototype
« Reply #33 on: February 03, 2011, 06:36:46 PM »
Quote from: Wendax on February 03, 2011, 07:57:39 AM
Is that a Finnish number plate?


It is indeed an old-style Finnish number plate issued prior to 1971 by the city of Turku, Finland's 3rd largest city on the south-western tip of the country.
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Re: Ginge/Thornycroft MS 20000 RR-engined crash tender prototype
« Reply #34 on: February 06, 2011, 09:18:05 AM »
Now you do know all I knew before - very good!
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