LT95 gearbox info

Well, 17C isn't listsed in any of the books I've got, and te only one I don't ahve to hand is the 101 book. It isn't Stage 1 V either. Perhaps it's a Santana box?

Richard

David

Yep, WHS.

It's perhaps worth noting that the 4 Speed box was devloped for the 101, and then used in the RR, not the other way round as is usually supposed.

Richard

Thanks for the help - looks like I can eliminate 101s from the list. I've since had another idea:

My 110 is a county station wagon but was once a Shorland armoured car. It has Salisbury axles front and rear (like the 101?) and anti-roll bars front and rear. It also has a non-standard power steering box, as I found out when I tried to fit an exchange recon one!

The gearbox number is 17C00048 which would imply it was the 48th 17C made. Lack of documentation about the 17C means there probably was not a massive amount of them built. Perhaps they were only fitted to these Shorland armoured conversions?

Any military specialists have any comments, please?

I wonder if whoever converted it back to a CSW maybe changed the transfer box high ratio gears to a range rover setup as the 17C perhaps had a lower ratio to cope with the extra weight and would have made high speed cruising impossible (and first gear redundant).

If I find out anything definite I'll post it here.

Andy