Foden 2-stroke engines.

Enlightenment please as to why they seem to like them in vehicles in New Zealand, but apparently were an absolute flop in Australia?

My Guess would be over heating, New Zealand is a long way south.

I disagree about the overheating story. New Zealand is not all that much further south than the southern half of Australia. For instance, the wine growing area of Nelson (at the northernmost tip of the South Island of New Zealand) is on the same latitude as the Barossa Valley, Australia's largest wine growing area.
I do not know the answer to Eightpot's question but maybe it has to do with the relative size of the countries. Interstate trucks in Australia can drive for anything up to 3000 miles between depots, while New Zealand is only 1000 miles long and split almost in the middle of that by Cook Strait, a 21 mile stretch of sea. Summertime temperatures may also be the reason, with parts of the outback of northern Australia reaching daytime temperatures of almost 50 degrees Celsius, about 180 Fahrenheit by my calculator the International R190 and R200, with the last of the petrol (gasoline) engines that were very popular in Australia were almost unheard of in New Zealand. Much of New Zealand is very mountainous, which may have something to do with operator choice.

Maybe Vichung or Blastermike or someone else in New Zealand can tell us their side of the story.

Morris wrote:

I disagree about the overheating story. New Zealand is not all that much further south than the southern half of Australia. For instance, the wine growing area of Nelson (at the northernmost tip of the South Island of New Zealand) is on the same latitude as the Barossa Valley, Australia's largest wine growing area.
I do not know the answer to Eightpot's question but maybe it has to do with the relative size of the countries. Interstate trucks in Australia can drive for anything up to 3000 miles between depots, while New Zealand is only 1000 miles long and split almost in the middle of that by Cook Strait, a 21 mile stretch of sea. Summertime temperatures may also be the reason, with parts of the outback of northern Australia reaching daytime temperatures of almost 50 degrees Celsius, about 180 Fahrenheit by my calculator the International R190 and R200, with the last of the petrol (gasoline) engines that were very popular in Australia were almost unheard of in New Zealand. Much of New Zealand is very mountainous, which may have something to do with operator choice.

Maybe Vichung or Blastermike or someone else in New Zealand can tell us their side of the story.

As YOU say Morris temperature.

I think terrain of the two countries is vastly different

Australia is flat, I mean really really flat, it is the flattest country on earth
And Australia is huge

NewZealnd is not only hilly but very slow travelling

So trucks only go a short distance before slowing for a bend, in Australia trucks are on full power for hours at a time

Anyway thats my take on it


Paul

Paul, it might be flat but its mostly uphill with a perkins........

Sarge wrote:

Paul, it might be flat but its mostly uphill with a perkins........

Up hill with anything on the hay plain west bound

Foden obviously had problems.....they went from a Mk1 to a Mk 7 in a few years ..........whats not generally know is GM didnt invent the small truck size blown two stroke diesel ........they were made in England in the late 1920s by Armstrong Whitworth,and there were several different makes of English small two stroke diesels before WW2.