The Nairn Bus History

More Stuff on the Nairn Busses.

There have been a few mentions of the Nairn Bus Company on the forum but Dima's sleeper cab thread lead me to this nice story with pictures. Certainly an historic operation.

martintristramrose.org/2016/09/24/running-to-catch-the-bus-1/

A great read Lang. Thanks.

A fantastic read Lang, thanks for sharing, the pictures are pretty impressive as well

Those Kiwi boys werent shy to have a go

Paul

I seem to remember Restored Cars ran a full story on the operation some time back.

Mammoth I think your right, I seam to recall that they had Marrom Herrington trucks but the truck front photo clearly stays White

Maybe Marrom Herrington supplied the all wheel drive bit only


Paul

pics here show two quite different rigs

Over in the sleeper cab thread of Dima's he has been kind enough to share this picture so I'm flogging it from there for here

Anyway this photo shows a couple of things , Marrom Herrington on the bonnet and Diesel motor and those big hydraulic damper shockers

Wonder what brand of diesel that is ? Doesn't look like a Cummins of the era, mybe Hercules ?




Paul

I don't think that is a Hercules Paul

As far as the Iraq trucks, I've attached scans of the fascinating story from "The Marmon Heritage". There were initially 4 TH-320-6 6x6's built for the pipeline in 1932, powered by Hercules HXB gas engines. Following this the famous Nairn Coach was ordered by the Nairn Brothers, along with a 20 ton semi trailer freight truck. These were both model TH-315's, one a 4x4 for the freighter and one a 6x6 for the coach, both powered by the new Hercules DHXB diesel.

My guess is that more pipeline trucks followed over the years, but that is not mentioned.