Newage PRM have been in and out of intensive care a few times, Newage industrial transmission business seems to have vanished, PRM staggers on building good but expensive marine boxes. Where are they now Tempest gone, Newage Stamford split and sold to Hawker Siddley, then on to Cummins, still going strong. Newage was carved up into Tempest (Marine engines) Newage (Generators) Newage/PRM (Hydraulic transmissions) and SCG (Heavy duty hydraulic transmissions). Newage, PRM, SCG all part of BMC/BL balls up at one time or another. PRM took on some of the Newage stuff but designs totally unconnected with anything produced by PRM in recent past. Life became very confusing under Newage as they developed their own clunky hydraulic boxes as well as using SCG boxes branded as Newage. Unbolt top plate and adjust the yoke to ensure brake bands engage just enough to engage without slipping. If your box has a round tapered body with drop reduction on the back it is the Morris box, square plate on top with a bolt on each corner. Morris Marine was stronger brand however Austin had the modern engine designs, Morris had decent mechanical boxes. Newage was created when the separate Austin Marine and Morris Marine entities were brought together under BMC banner. Newage mechanical boxes were originally Morris. I can find very little information on these Newage mechanical boxes.Ĭan anyone advise or suggest where I might find out more? Jo, The names can be real confusing. The control is simply a straight brass lever about 2 foot long acting straight on the 'box so the problem must lie with the selector shaft bearings. The gearbox shift has become progressively stiffer though. It's a 3.4 and performs commendably making all the right pulsing noises and smells that give tugboat-chic. I fitted one of these lovely old clunkers to my lifeboat conversion thingy. After the formation of British Motor Corporation (BMC) the new B Series engine was used in the following vehicles: 1954–56 Morris Cowley 1954–56 Austin A40 Cambridge.
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