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What taxi had a perkins engine?.
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Author:  Baconsdozen [ Sun May 19, 2013 5:19 pm ]
Post subject:  What taxi had a perkins engine?.
A friend of mine has found an old london taxi in a barn. He says its been there a considerable length of time,looks like a fairway but has an old Perkins (possibly a 407) diesel.
He's trying to work out what to do with it,are these collectable,is it an Fx4?.
Author:  blackpool [ Sun May 19, 2013 7:07 pm ]
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Baconsdozen wrote:
A friend of mine has found an old london taxi in a barn. He says its been there a considerable length of time,looks like a fairway but has an old Perkins (possibly a 407) diesel.
He's trying to work out what to do with it,are these collectable,is it an Fx4?.

Cant 100 % remember,thet were a 3 litre perkins engine.I think it was drivers who had them fitted cause of all the problems with the land rover engines ! I remember a fellow taxi driver having one here and it went like [edited by admin] of a shovel :D
Author:  rayggb [ Sun May 19, 2013 10:07 pm ]
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I concur that it was a replacement engine that drivers had fitted,think it was on the austin fx4 but may have also been on the fx3.My first cab was an fx4 austin(AAK457T).I remember the auto version having a 2.2ltr engine which I was warned not to touch as It was underpowered and unreliable.Think my cab was a 1979.
Author:  rayggb [ Sun May 19, 2013 10:11 pm ]
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Ps,think it was on these 2.2 engines that drivers put perkins 3ltr engines in (diesel was cheaper then!).
Author:  blackpool [ Sun May 19, 2013 10:54 pm ]
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Remember the 2.2 ,fully loaded 6 people and cases and you had to hope it was all downhill !! I seem to think thats whenthey brought the fx4r out. Pure luxury ! Disc brakes,power steering :D
Author:  E7fan [ Mon May 20, 2013 4:43 am ]
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blackpool wrote:
Remember the 2.2 ,fully loaded 6 people and cases and you had to hope it was all downhill !! I seem to think thats whenthey brought the fx4r out. Pure luxury ! Disc brakes,power steering :D

But still a heap of sh!t.
Author:  gary [ Mon May 20, 2013 7:41 am ]
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Yes, apparently, the FX4R engine was so feeble, it couldn't go up Highgate hill fully loaded. Owners sometimes put the Perkins 3.0 engine in as a replacement. The 3.0 Perkins has the same power and torque figures as the Nissan 2.7 according to the literature (86hp).
I would say that if the body and the interior are in reasonable condition, definitely restore it. They are quite rare now the 3.0 ones.
If he doesn't want to, advertise it in the London Vintage Taxi Association paper. I'm sure someone will take it off his hands.
It is probably a 1980 to 1984 - something like that.
I have read that the chassis sometimes experienced cracking and the more powerful Perkins was blamed when actually, it was a fault with the chassis welding.
It also has the classic dash with all the Smiths instruments but will be noisier, bumpier and less easy to stop than a Fairway. It will have a straight partition which means you can put a proper passenger seat in for the missus. (If you want to...)
Author:  Baconsdozen [ Mon May 20, 2013 12:55 pm ]
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Thanks for the replies,he's going back to have another look.Apparently there's also a 30's armstrong Siddeley in the barn with it but I've not been told where these are.
I can't believe that in this day and age the people who own the land have no idea of the value or rarity of the other car even if they don't know about the taxi and sadly I think my mates dithering will result in him being left with nowt unless he pulls his finger out.
Author:  iconic [ Sat Jun 08, 2013 5:55 pm ]
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blackpool wrote:
Remember the 2.2 ,fully loaded 6 people and cases and you had to hope it was all downhill !! I seem to think thats whenthey brought the fx4r out. Pure luxury ! Disc brakes,power steering :D


I thought discs were fairways only?
Author:  blackpool [ Sun Jun 09, 2013 1:23 pm ]
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iconic wrote:
blackpool wrote:
Remember the 2.2 ,fully loaded 6 people and cases and you had to hope it was all downhill !! I seem to think thats whenthey brought the fx4r out. Pure luxury ! Disc brakes,power steering :D


I thought discs were fairways only?

They were but they used to be converted to discs,think it was the same as a jaguar if i can remember that far back :D :D
Author:  Baconsdozen [ Mon Jun 10, 2013 5:40 pm ]
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My mate went back,the taxi has been sold while he was messing about.It was apparently a very early Fx4.
The Armstrong Siddeley went too.
Author:  wannabeeahack [ Thu Jun 13, 2013 10:26 am ]
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Baconsdozen wrote:
My mate went back,the taxi has been sold while he was messing about.It was apparently a very early Fx4.
The Armstrong Siddeley went too.



he who snoozes.....looses
Author:  Baconsdozen [ Fri Jun 14, 2013 8:43 am ]
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A year or two back a farmer near me had an sixties Riley in a barn,he got so fed up with being messed about by ditherers that he let it go for scrap.(his son had it running only the week before).
He told me that if just one of them had turned up when they said they would,he'd have given them the car.
Author:  Nidge2 [ Tue Jul 02, 2013 2:25 pm ]
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I once drove one of the old bombers with the big steering wheel with no power steering. It couldn't pull me out of bed and when loaded it was useless.
Author:  roythebus [ Fri Jul 05, 2013 4:22 pm ]
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I've got a feeling a couple of the Beardmore taxis had Perkins P3 engines! As fitted to Trojan vans..

My Guy bus has a Perkins P6, 48hp and that too won't pull me out of bed, but hey, it's nearly 60 years old and built for more leisurely times. Yes, it's still in service doing weddings! 8)
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