T he Transit came with a couple of unusual additions to
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help its performance as a tipper. Traction off-road is always an issue so Ford equipped this example with Quaff-la's Automatic Torque Biasing differentials, while engine revs during tipping operations were managed by an electronic engine speed controller mounted in a dashtop binnacle with dual DIN housings.
Ford's offering was also alone in having vinyl seat
trim, which while undoubtedly hard-wearing and easy to clean, attracted universal criticism for its sweaty stickiness—even on a not particularly hot day.
The other significant criticism was the old Transit bugbear of engine noise, not helped in this application by the short gearing specified for tipper work.
The body fitted to our test Transit is unusual. Scattolini's three-way tipper is a well-built piece of equipment, but while our friends across the water