Scammel Lorries Limited was a British manufacturer of trucks, particularly specialist and military off-highway vehicles from 1921 to 1988.

History

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In 1921, the company exhibited their first articulated vehicle (capable of carrying 7.5 tons) at the Olympia Motor Show. With a demand for the vehicle the company first moved to a new works in Watford and then formed Scammell Lorries Ltd in July 1922. Watford is a town and district (styled as borough due to the historical charter granted by Henry VIII) just to the north-west of London. ...

The company concentrated on articulated and rigid bodied eight-wheeler lorries for the next 40 years. One vehicle not in those lines that became well-known and was the six-wheeled Pioneer. This was an off-highway heavy haulage tractor which they first produced in 1927. It showed outstanding cross-country performance due to the design which included a sideways rocking front axle, and 2ft of vertical movement for each of the rear wheels.

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. 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. Forestry - Wikipedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ... The British Army is the land armed forces branch of the British military. ... Mushroom cloud from the nuclear explosion over Nagasaki rising 18 km (over 11 miles) into the air, August 9, 1945. ... Historically, artillery refers to any engine used for the discharge of projectiles during war. ...

Post war, foreign competition and rationalisation of the UK manufacturers led to Scamell coming under Leyland in the 1950s. It continued production in speciiast and military markets until 1988 when the site at Watford was closed and the last vehicles under the Scammel name were sold. Leyland Motors was a British vehicle manufacturer of lorries and buses. ... Millennia: 1st millennium - 2nd millennium - 3rd millennium // Events and trends The 1950s in Western society was marked with a sharp rise in the economy for the first time in almost 30 years and return to the 1920s-type consumer society built on credit and boom-times, as well as the...

Vehicle List

• Rigid Six
• Rigid Eight
• 100 Tonner
• 80 Tonner
• Pioneer
• Crusader
• Constructor
• Explorer
• Scarab
• Mechanical Horse
• Commander
• Highwayman
• Handyman
• Routman
• Trucker
• Contractor
• Himalayan

External links

Scammell enthusiast site