Argyle Motor Manufacturing Company
The Argyle Motor Manufacturing Company was a short-lived British commercial vehicle manufacturer.
description
The company was founded in 1970 as a subsidiary of Argyle Diesel Electronics, Ltd. in East Kilbride , Lanarkshire and apparently housed in the parent company, which dealt with injection pumps and diesel technology and believed it saw market opportunities for heavy-duty vehicles.
Argyle Motor Manufacturing produced only one model, a truck with 16 tons (14.5 tonnes) payload and the label Christina . A six-cylinder - diesel engine Perkins 6.354 powered vehicle. The power was transmitted to a two-stage Eaton rear axle via a five-speed transmission from Eaton Yale & Towne . The front axle was bought in by Kirkstall , the cabin by Motor Panels .
A further be mentioned Karen -called 24-tons truck (22 t) with three axles and a 36-tons-tractor (32.7 t) Linsay ; however, both seem to have existed only on the drawing board. One source mentions several two- and three-axle trucks with a total weight of 36 tons.
On the other hand, a single tractor for a load of up to 120 tons (110 t) was built for British Steel under the name Trilby . It had a Cummins 220 diesel engine.
The company existed for only three years from 1970 to 1973. Production was discontinued after the competition from established manufacturers had apparently been underestimated.
literature
- Halwart Schrader, Jan P. Norbye: The truck lexicon, all brands 1900 to today. Motorbuch Verlag, 1998, ISBN 3613018373 .
- GN Georgano (Editor), G. Marshall Naul: Complete Encyclopedia of Commercial Vehicles. MBI Motor Books International, Osceola WI 1979, ISBN 0-87341-024-6 .
Web links
- Grace's Guide: Argyle Diesel Electronics (accessed March 20, 2016)