Truck with a rare transmission

Well its an old 2 stroke Detroit thats a given and Im guessing its a 5 speed with a cable shifted 2 speed rear end. Would be a little easier to tell if we could see ground speed.

 

Most likely a cabover or something with a very short hood. None of the wording was in English so I couldn't read the description or comments. Only other thing is it could have a cable shifted 2 speed box in front of the transmission which could explain why the gear shifter was so far back which is why the stick has the angle it does.

 

8v71 with 5spd stick and 2spd rear

Something like this

 

Man, I've seen busses in India with a similar tranny

 

Ah yea. Similar to old iron on gasoline big block.

The one poster indicated inclined gear stick. The actual gate is behind the driver between the seats on the back cab wall where the transmission box is below. The engine is directly in front of the drivers foot.

Actually under the cab floor.

 

That is an early Road Ranger. Early 610 I believe. The high low range shift was done by a cable,which slid the valve on the trans that sent the air to shift the range. Down is low range,up is high. Last one I saw and drove many years ago was in a 1950 something International,with an early JT-Cummins in it.
Two speed and 3 speed rears are electric,or air over electric,or all air shifted. Not cable shifted.

 

Old Cannonball Jimmy with an R95 10 speed Roadranger, 5 down 5 up.. Two speeds were originally manual, with a Johnson bar like a second stick, Then around 1946 they went to a vacuum shifter controlled by a pot metal dashboard flipper switch. Then in the early fifties vacuum was controlled by a cable shifter on the stick. at about the same time electric shifts came out, again on the stick. I drove all of them, respectively in a 1945 GMC, a 1946 GMC a 1949 GMC and a 54 and 55 GMCs, all owned by my first employer Kitsilano Transfer in Vancouver BC. The 45 was the first civilian model gm to reach Vancouver after the war, Kits got it because two of the principles were 5 year+ overseas veterans