Turner Whitson?

[Supercharger]

Hello everyone, what an excellent forum.
Does anyone have any information on the British Turner-Whitson 8 seater bus, exhibited at the 1954 Commercial motor show.
My main interest lies with the extremely rare all alloy Turner L40 scavenge blown 2 stroke twin cylinder diesel engine installed into it, but any relevant facts whatsoever about the vehicle itself would be most welcome.

[G-CPTN]

Never heard of it - but I think I remember that Turners were making engines before making gearboxes.

From Googoo:- http://www.historywebsite.co.uk/Muse.../Turner/TM.htm

[G-CPTN]

More from t'internet (Whitson body):- http://www.old-bus-photos.co.uk/?cat=253

http://archive.commercialmotor.com/a...ody-for-commer

[G-CPTN]

http://www.historywebsite.co.uk/Muse...ial/Turner.htm

[Supercharger]

Thanks for all that info G-CPTN, yes 'Turners' were indeed making engines long before gearboxes and they had a very long and very distinguished automotive and engineering history, but the little 8 seater Turner Whitson bus (Front Wheel Drive in fact) was a one off (I think). There is a picture of it on Google images and also EBAY, but that seems to be all the info I can find.

[G-CPTN]

I worked with Turners in the 1970s (truck gearboxes).

Can you post the URLs to the images? I'm sure we'd all like to see what it looked like.

[Supercharger]

I hope this attaches ok G-CPTN, if not, I'll try again later.

[G-CPTN]

Nice looking - like a stretched London taxicab.

[G-CPTN]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8GVBGvQ7jXQ

http://www.historywebsite.co.uk/Muse...r/Products.htm

[G-CPTN]

http://www.s2cforum.com/archives/ind...ic=3126.0;wap2

http://www.s2cforum.com/archives/ind...ic=3126.5;wap2

http://www.series2club.co.uk/forum/f...c=59761.0;wap2