Wizard
Interesting Ron that you mention the Humber. That was another vehicle that I once had an ambition to own.Love the cab styling and the smooth ride, but from a cross country perspective the low gear ratio of around 39;1 from memory seemed a little inadequate and reminisent of my old Dodge Weapons
Carrier which really wasn't up for much until I fitted it with a 2spd t/case.
Wagoo.
YarnMaster
I have been learning things.
A swimming MK1 Stolly may be at Corowa this year which should make people happy.
This Stolly also has the standard motor and a top speed of 100 kph and drive disconnects too.
I am now looking very hard how to get time off work to check it out when it is down there.
There is another one like mine kicking around Brisbane too.
AT present my Stolly seems to be No 3 in the country.
Ron
YarnMaster
Production figures are something like this.
MK1 from 1962 to1966 135 units.
MK2 from 1966 to 1971..........348 standard version..............FV622
269 limber version with crane FV263
60 Reme version with crane FV624
Swaggie
There is an Alvis Saracen for sale in the latest Unique Cars magazine.
Swaggie
You might be surprised how many are lurking in farm sheds...Originally Posted by 101 Ron
There are at least 2-3 in NZ:
Stolly for Sale NZ - MLU FORUMMK2 Stalwart on E-bay. Pricey $25000 for a non swimmer, but are few and far between in this hemisphere.
http://cgi.ebay.com.au/Ex-Military-S...item4150e07fc2
"Alvis stalwart MK2 . Ex British army. 6x6 / four wheel steer. Awesome off road ability. Originally amphibious and with some work could be made a swimmer again (the Army removed driveshafts to the Dowdy jets and steering rods).
Good runner and driver. Not museum piece, I drive it!
See youtube.com and type in Stalwart to see one in action.
Dimensions
2.62m wide/ 2.4m high/ 8500kg unladen /5000kg payload. Rolls Royce sraight 8 petrol ,easily converted to LPG.
10,000kg Hydraulic winch ,needs cable and linkage freeing up
User handbook and service manual.
Truck is in Nelson NZ. I can organise shipping. "
Never heard of a B Series being put on gas, so not sure if it is an "easy" or suitable conversion. There was some confusion if they could run on Unleaded let alone LPG.
My vote for best looking Military Vehicle ever.
Rich.
http://www.fordaustraliaforums.com/f...Alvis-Stalwartbelongs to a customer. he has two of them! Just been imported into the country from the UK.
YarnMaster
I have been checking out the Alvis Stalwart groups forum and from best advailible info there are three operational stollys in Aust.
I think one of these owners may be sitting on or know of the remains of some stollys used on the Gold coasts broad water for tourist operations about 10 to 8 years ago.
For salt water tourist amphibious buses the stolly would send you broke with maintaince.
YarnMaster
The B81 Rolls appears to have a few problems running on petrol like a Carby that will frost up jets in cold weather and being a striaght 8 the manifold design tends to drop the petrol vapour on the floor of the manifold.
Sparkplug fouling is another one .
LPG solves these problems and the B81 likes LPG.
The CR is only 6.5 or 7.25 depending on exact model and it will run on in different fuels if required.
Natural gas versions of this motor were made.
The biggest problem is where do you place gas bottles without chopping up the vehicle.
According to one owner the top speed with standard gearing is 73 kph at 3750 rpm.
60kph should be advailable at 3000 rpm ( I hope which is good enough for me)
It appears rigging up dog clutches on the drive shalfs is done using a existing splined collier and just maching it a bit and adding a air shift linkage.
The above will be years away for me.
The dog clutches add to advailable performance on road.
I learnt the diff is a detroit locker and that explains why it is a bit touchy in this set up.
The forward/reverse is done via having two crown wheels running on the same pinion in the diff.
It is all very simple , if not a bit crude.
I will try and find pics.
YarnMaster
YarnMaster
All the following are not of my stolly but pics I have picked up for reference.
Home made dog clutch.
Getting a bit of air
Drivers view in the drink
A Stolly with its pants down
YarnMaster
Model without crane showing hydraulic oil tank, some panels removed so we can see into the cabin.
the 2 bottles to the right are for the in built fire extingisher system.
Note air horn.
All cooling and ventilation air is drawn though this space from the top of the cabin and expelled via 2 large radiator fans in the extreme rear, so the whole hull is always ventalated.
The 2 rods on the left are the steering for the water jets.
The large tank in the middle is fuel.
The reason for using bevel boxes instead of a normal drive line is to maximise advailible room.
The drive shafts are out of sight running down each side of the fuel tank.
The white box in the cabin on the right side just in view is the boiling vessel so you steam and fry, warm or more importantly for the british boil a cuppa onthe move and has a outlet just like a urn.
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