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I ENJOYED READING Top 10 – The Best Trucks feature (CM 3 March). However, can I point a few things out?
1. If a Mack Super-Liner was specified with an in-house Econodyne – rather than a Cummins or Detroit – engine, its ‘glittering bulldog atop its elongated nose’ would have been goldrather than chrome-plated.
2. In his paean of praise for the Magnum (incidentally launched in 1990 as simply the AE), Brian Weatherley coins the nickname ‘Maggie’ for Renault’s towering beast. To most of us that’s the handle generally applied to the Magirus-Deutz marque.
3. Surely the Oshkosh R-Series windscreen was forwardrather than backward-tilting. By the same token, the rear windows of Ford’s 1959 Anglia 105E and its later Classic stablemate were backwardand not forward-sloping.
That’s enough pedantry for now. Alan Bunting Former CM editor Brian Weatherley says: “Doesn’t gold glitter as well as chrome? Maggie works for me for both Renault and Magirus-Deutz. Re the Oshkosh, it clearly depends on where you’re observing it – the windscreen is surely backward–tilting at the base.”