Ford HN80

[Quad-Dog]

Havn´t got any news, but I got the feeling that some can´t quite belive that small sleepers like these are around. After hours of surfing the web I found a few fotos: small sleeper

[Quad-Dog]

Hi Chris,

I quite like it. My favourite quad dog with skirts is the lodehaul sterling. It was based in the Riverina before it was replaced by an Argosy 19m stag.
To be honest I still don´t quite know what is going to happen next.
One thing I know for sure is that the fuel tanks will be replaced with bigger ones. I tested 50mm pipe but it was a bit too big.
The sleeper won´t stay on. I designed a new one that is much closer to the real one. The problem is that I got two or three different sleepers I quite like but can´t decide. Two would 'only' have to be machined the third one has to be designed as well.
Luckily I can´t work on it at the moment so it safes me from having to make a decison

[LOUIE 379]

Louie's dad here, wheelbase measurements are from the centre of the front stub axle to the middle of the bogies, thats how we measure them out here and the states also, Sleekline made those sleepers for Finemores Louivilles later becoming HN80's ,they were car carriers with the Stinger trailers imported from America, some how they got away with running them overlength here, notice no-one imports Stingers here any more, think they had to run on a B-Double route