How did diesel buses and taxis cope with short low speed journeys in London?

The Mercedes 240D was built for taxi work and would easily top a million miles before it needed any engine work.

Yes Howard, the 6.354 was a good engine, but the ford York was a problem, even to Ford. Noel.

At CAV I did some work oin the Ford Dorset, 360 in^3.

In my mind it was already smoke limited before any need to muprate to mkeep a good place in the market.

Attempts at turbocharging it were horrific. One threw a rod while the tester was in front of it (Thankfully ). The only thing holding the front and back halves together was the cylinder head.

If you were lucky a head gasket would last long enough to complete a power curve!

We never did get the bits out of the celotex tiles in the test cell

Before production, it was derated to 150 bhp from the "wish list" 180 bhp (40+ percent uprate? Oh come on! )

At least I did get a nominal 300 bhp out of a marinised 6 litre Perkins !000 Series, as a limiterd life engine. After 50% more than the published life, ik was as good as new when we stripped it!

Peterborough could build a mix of naturally Aspirated, Turbo charged or Marine engines down the same track Dagenham needed four tracks to achieve that. They did use single spindle yield tigthening before us, though!

Our machine tightened all 32 bolts at once. Finger tight to a 9 nton tensile load in 7 sceonds. Awesome!

Howard