gritineye Posted January 18, 2009 Share Posted January 18, 2009 (edited) A little teaser, what is this? Photo courtesy of Brian Hartley Edited January 19, 2009 by gritineye Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HotBed Posted January 18, 2009 Share Posted January 18, 2009 an open sided vehicle :-D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gritineye Posted January 18, 2009 Author Share Posted January 18, 2009 Graham, it's late, you're getting tired with all that electrickery, I'm off to bed mate. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony B Posted January 18, 2009 Share Posted January 18, 2009 llama. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Farrant Posted January 18, 2009 Share Posted January 18, 2009 Volvo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick Johns Posted January 18, 2009 Share Posted January 18, 2009 (edited) Volvo C303 looks if its RHD Volvo marketed civvy models here but it didnt catch on, I owned a RHD hardtop version years ago Edited January 18, 2009 by Nick Johns Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gritineye Posted January 18, 2009 Author Share Posted January 18, 2009 llama. Volvo Nope..........neither of those. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gritineye Posted January 18, 2009 Author Share Posted January 18, 2009 Volvo C303 looks if its RHD Volvo marketed civvy models here but it didnt catch on, I owned a RHD hardtop version years ago Sorry ........not that either. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony B Posted January 18, 2009 Share Posted January 18, 2009 Not a Stonefeild is it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gritineye Posted January 18, 2009 Author Share Posted January 18, 2009 Not a Stonefeild is it? You're right.........not a Stonefield. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
antarmike Posted January 18, 2009 Share Posted January 18, 2009 It is right hand drive, if thats the steering wheel I can see...but the tyres seem to say Eastern Bloc? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gritineye Posted January 18, 2009 Author Share Posted January 18, 2009 It is right hand drive, if thats the steering wheel I can see...but the tyres seem to say Eastern Bloc? Not eastern block Mike, clue coming up in a bit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Farrant Posted January 18, 2009 Share Posted January 18, 2009 Dosco HS100-4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gritineye Posted January 18, 2009 Author Share Posted January 18, 2009 Dosco HS100-4 Oooooooooh.....and you didn't even need the Rover V8 clue, correct answer Richard. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Farrant Posted January 18, 2009 Share Posted January 18, 2009 Oooooooooh.....and you didn't even need the Rover V8 clue, correct answer Richard. :tup:: it did have a bit of Volvo in it.....the transfer box. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony B Posted January 18, 2009 Share Posted January 18, 2009 You're right.........not a Stonefield. :pfrt: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gritineye Posted January 18, 2009 Author Share Posted January 18, 2009 :pfrt: Sorry Tony, it was meant in jest :red: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony B Posted January 18, 2009 Share Posted January 18, 2009 Sorry Tony, it was meant in jest :red: So was the reply, :-D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick Johns Posted January 18, 2009 Share Posted January 18, 2009 (edited) Should have realised it was a Dosco, built in UK by a subsiduary of Hawker Siddeley, Rover V8 ZF5spd box, the rest was basically Volvo made under licence, various protypes made inc 6x6 but it never went into production Edited January 18, 2009 by Nick Johns Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gritineye Posted January 18, 2009 Author Share Posted January 18, 2009 :tup:: it did have a bit of Volvo in it.....the transfer box. Apparently not Richard, A Volvo type FD51 fully synchronized two speed reduction coupled to the main ZF type S5/18-3, 5 spd gearbox is quoted. Dosco acquired the rights to manufacture it and the rest was little changed from when it was a Volvo 4141 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Farrant Posted January 18, 2009 Share Posted January 18, 2009 Apparently not Richard, A Volvo type FD51 fully synchronized two speed reduction coupled to the main ZF type S5/18-3, 5 spd gearbox is quoted. Dosco acquired the rights to manufacture it and the rest was little changed from when it was a Volvo 4141 Only going by Jane's 1983 book, Bernard. Did it actually go further than trials and development? As a small producer I wonder if they had any buyers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gritineye Posted January 18, 2009 Author Share Posted January 18, 2009 (edited) Only going by Jane's 1983 book, Bernard. Did it actually go further than trials and development? As a small producer I wonder if they had any buyers. Don't really know Richard, but the MOD had two for evaluation it seems. does this help? Photo courtesy of Brian Hartley Edited January 19, 2009 by gritineye Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stuart Carter Posted October 25, 2021 Share Posted October 25, 2021 As a 26 year old design/detail draughtsman in 1979/80 my test to become a Project Design draughtsman was to produce the 2D manufacturing drawings for the clutch bellhousing and the gearshift casting. The bellhousing was to mate the ZF gearbox to the Rover V8 Engine. I also did the dashboard labels, translated from Swedish to English. I remember ding the detail drawing for the engine mounts [ designed by a colleague ] which i was unsure about how they were made. I still have the drawing prints today and often wondered what happened to the vehicle ! I keep meaning to model it in 3D as CAD did not exist in those days. I recall that I used a stencil provided by the Volvo Engineer (called Anders? ) for the text and the lines were using Pentel pencils, so not quite freehand. The patterns used for the casting of the bellhousing were made locally at a company in Chesterfield, Derbyshire. It is a while ago and a lot of industries and drawings later - I did the fuel tank and visited a company in Wellingborough with the fuel Cap for them to fit onto the tank. I only had one short drive in this vehicle and managed to try the diff-locks in a small area on the Dosco site which used to be a residential army camp during WW2 DOSCO also added an ambulance body onto another 4x4 chassis and Volvo provided a 6 wheel truck - all of these kept the Volvo Engigne and all three went on the British Army Trials. I was not allowed to go on these trials with the vehicles even though I was the only one with a professional Class 1 licence [ still annoyed but still alive 🙂 ] The identity on the front grille on the Hawker Siddley logo HS100-4. This vehicle was said to have been used to pull the competition out of the mud when they had become stuck and the British Army were impressed but this is only hear say to me. I also know why the project was allegedly dropped by the Dosco MD at the time. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paulob1 Posted November 29, 2022 Share Posted November 29, 2022 wow and i have been told by Jamie Grieve, thank you sir, that I have one of these too...i wwas selling it as a 303 but it isnt its a v8 DOSCO...very interesting... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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