The long version of the Stonefield: the same forward-control space-frame design with a third, undriven axle, raising the payload to about 3 tonnes. Fire and airfield crash tenders were built on it.
MODEL LINEThree-axleBUILT BYStonefield VehiclesPRODUCED1978–83OPERATED INUnited KingdomPRODUCTIONNot published separatelyLAYOUT6 wheels · 139″
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The 6x4 shared the 4x4's cab, engines, automatic gearboxes and permanent four-wheel drive to the front two axles; the third axle is a trailing unpowered ('lazy') axle. Allisons gives a 3,525 mm wheelbase, a length of 5,445 mm and a payload of 2,900 kg, against 2,800 mm, 4,940 mm and 1,500 kg for the 4x4. A fully automatic 6x4 of 3 tonnes payload was on the Stonefield stand at the NEC Motor Show in October 1978.
The type's best-known users were airfield fire services in the Highlands and Islands: a Carmichael-bodied P5000 6x4 crash tender served at Barra, where aircraft land on the beach. In 1993 the Samuelson film and television fleet at Pinewood still ran a Stonefield six-wheeler for rough-terrain location work, the only vehicle of its fleet to get through snow to a Poirot location in the Derbyshire Dales.
ENGINE3.0 L Ford Essex V6 petrol with Ford C3 three-speed automatic, or 5.2 L Chrysler 318 V8 petrol with TorqueFlite three-speed automaticFord Essex V6 · Chrysler LA V8
PRODUCTION RUNNot published separately; 92 Stonefields of all types built and sold by November 1980 (Hansard)
COUNTRY OF ORIGINUnited Kingdom
OPERATED INUnited Kingdom
STATUSout of production
RECORD KINDBase model
MODEL LINEThree-axle
FAMILYThree-axle
WHEELS6
NOMINAL WHEELBASE139″
BODY STYLEFull cab
VARIANTS2
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