Scammell Lorries Limited was a British manufacturer of trucks, particularly specialist and military off-highway vehicles, from 1921 to 1988. Brazil is a 1985 Dystopian Black comedy film directed by Terry Gilliam. The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom, the UK or Britain,is a Sovereign state located This article is about the semi-truck For the North American use of the word see Pickup truck.
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History
Scammell started as a late-Victorian period wheelwright and coach-building business in Spitalfields, London. Culture The Victorian fascination with novelty resulted in a deep interest in the relationship between modernity and cultural continuities A wheelwright (or Wainwright) is a person who builds or repairs Wheels Making and balancing a wheel is skilled work. In British English and Australian English, the term coach is used to refer to a large motor vehicle for conveying passengers Spitalfields is an area in the borough of Tower Hamlets, in the East End of London, near to Liverpool Street station and Brick London ( ˈlʌndən is the capital and largest urban area in the United Kingdom.
In 1921, the company exhibited its first articulated vehicle, capable of carrying 7. 5 tons, at the Olympia Motor Show. Units of mass There are three similar units of Mass called the ton: Long ton (simply ton in countries such as the United The British International Motor Show is an Automobile show held biennially in the United Kingdom. With the demand for this vehicle, the company first moved to a new works in Watford, and then formed Scammell Lorries Ltd in July 1922. Watford (ˈwɒtfəd) is a town and district in Hertfordshire, England, situated 19 miles (30 km northwest of London
In 1934, Scammell produced the 'Mechanical Horse', designed by Oliver North to replace horses in rail, postal and other delivery applications. Oliver Danson North was a British engineer and automobile designer in the early twentieth century This featured automatic carriage coupling and the single front wheel could be steered through 360 degrees. It was sold in 3 and 6 ton versions. The 3-tonner was powered by a 1,125 cc side-valve petrol engine and the 6-tonner by a 2,043 cc engine. Karrier had introduced a similar vehicle, the 'Cob', four years earlier. Karrier is a marque of car and commercial vehicle the origins of which can be traced back to Clayton and Company a 1904 company from Huddersfield, West Yorkshire
From 1937, a Citroën Traction Avant powered version was made under licence in France, by Chenard-Walcker-FAR, known as the 'Pony Mécanique'. Citroën (pronounced See-Troh-Enn is a French Automobile manufacturer, founded in 1919 by André Citroën. The Citroën Traction Avant was an Automobile produced by the French manufacturer Citroën. FAR was a French truck manufacturer affiliated to Chenard-Walcker. This continued in production, in various versions, until 1970.
In the late 1940s, the 'Mechanical Horse' was superseded by the 'Scarab', with similar features but now with a 2,090 cc side-valve petrol engine in both models and a diesel version with a Perkins engine. Diesel or Diesel fuel (ˈdiːzəl in general is any Fuel used in Diesel engines The most common is a specific fractional distillate of petroleum
In 1967, the 'Scarab' was replaced by the 'Townsman', which had a fibre-glass cab.
The company mainly concentrated on articulated and rigid eight-wheeler lorries, from the 1920s. One vehicle not in those lines that became well-known was the six-wheeled Pioneer. This was an off-highway heavy haulage tractor first produced in 1927. It showed outstanding cross-country performance due to the design that included a sideways rocking front axle, and 2 ft of vertical movement for each of the rear wheels. Suspension is the term given to the system of springs, Shock absorbers and linkages that connects a Vehicle to its Wheels Suspension A foot (plural feet or foot; symbol or abbreviation ft or sometimes &prime – the prime symbol) is a non-SI unit
The Pioneer was popular in the oil field and forestry (logging) markets, and formed the basis of the British Army's World War II 30-ton tank transporter. An oil field is a region with an abundance of Oil wells extracting Petroleum (crude oil from below ground Forestry is the Art and Science of managing forests tree Plantations and related Natural resources. Logging is the process in which Trees are cut down for Forest management and Timber. The British Army is the land armed forces branch of the British Armed Forces. World War II, or the Second World War, (often abbreviated WWII) was a global military conflict which involved a majority of the world's nations, including A tank is a tracked, Armoured fighting vehicle designed for Front-line combat which combines Operational mobility and tactical With the outbreak of war, development of new vehicles stopped and production concentrated on military Pioneers for use as artillery tractors, recovery and transporter vehicles. Artillery (from French artillerie) is a military Combat Arm which employs any apparātus machine
Post war, foreign competition and rationalisation of the UK manufacturers led to Scammell coming under Leyland Motors Ltd in 1955. It continued production in specialist and military markets until 1988 when the site at Watford was closed and the last vehicles under the Scammell name were sold.
Alvis Unipower set up an operation in Watford in 1988 developing trucks and offering ongoing support and spare parts for Scammell vehicles. Universal Power Drives was a British Truck manufacturer which branded its trucks with the Unipower Marque.
An S24 Tank Transporter is Jill's vehicle in the Terry Gilliam film Brazil. Terrence Vance Gilliam (born 22 November 1940) is an American -born British Writer, Filmmaker, Animator and member Brazil is a 1985 Dystopian Black comedy film directed by Terry Gilliam.
Vehicle list
- Rigid Six
- Rigid Eight
- 100 Tonner
- Pioneer
- 80 Tonner
- Mountaineer
- Explorer
- Constructor
- Mechanical Horse, Scarab and Townsman
- Highwayman
- Handyman
- Routeman
- Showtrac – Showmans tractor fitted with generator for fairground ride haulage and power supply
- Trunker – See below
- Contractor
- Himalayan
- Crusader – See below
- Commander
- S24
- S26
Products
Trunker
The Trunker used the same Michellotti-designed "cheesegrater" fibreglass cab as the Routeman Rigid. The Scammell Pioneer R100 was a British vehicle that was used in the Second World War. The Semi-Trailer Scammell Pioneer was a British vehicle that was used to recover tanks from the battlefield and transport them over rough ground during the Second World Giovanni Michelotti (1921-1980 was one of the most prolific Designers of Sports cars in the 20th century Fiberglass (also called fibreglass and glass fibre see Spelling differences) is material made from extremely fine Fibers of Glass. It a tractor unit version using Leyland 0. 680 or TL11 engines. It was available as 4×2 and 6×2 with a non lifting second steer axle. The chassis from this vehicle saw continued service on the 6×2 Leyland Roadtrain.
Crusader
This was a 4×2 or 6×4 tractor that used a Motor Panels-supplied steel cab, available in sleeper or day cab forms. It had the option of Detroit Diesel, Cummins, Rolls Royce or Leyland engines. Detroit Diesel Corporation (DDC is a Diesel engine producer headquartered in Redford Michigan, USA. Cummins Inc ( is a corporation of complementary business units that design manufacture distribute and service diesel and Natural gas Engines and related For the present day company see Rolls-Royce plc. For other uses see Rolls-Royce (disambiguation.
The Crusader was a popular vehicle within the UK military as a 6×6 wrecker. The British Army is the land armed forces branch of the British Armed Forces. Many have also seen use in the heavy haulage industry due to their incredibly strong chassis.
See also
Gallery
 Scammell 8x4 truck |
 1941 British Army Scammell Pioneer |
 Scammell Scarab in GWR livery |
 RAF Scammell Scarab |
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