I was surprised to see the wire rope being manipulated with bare hands. I was always taught this was a no-no, due to the risk of injury from broken strands, which often then become infected and that heavy leather gloves or gauntlets should always be used.
I am from the USA and I really love these old British war time videos. It’s so cool to watch the US army videos then be able to watch the British equivalent vehicle video. There’s a US army video with our recovery vehicle just like this (M26 Dragon Wagon), check it out if you haven’t before.
My grandad drove them in TA in 1963 they had loads out in Cyprus he drove a WW2 pioneer which was a wreck and Captain told him to dump it up in hills in Paphos he ripped parts off of it.
When I did my Mechanic apprenticeship with a Ford main dealer here in the UK in 1970 to 75 we had a Scammell Pioneer as our heavy recovery truck used to love going in that
Very interesting, i am building a model off a scamell recovery vehicle, i guess it would not be so nice doing a recovery in bad weather conditions or under the risk off enemy fire, very interesting film.🙂
This is so good to see from so many years ago. It's physics and mechanical advantage and common sense. It's the beauty of Scammell trucks. It's such a joy to see the birth of heavy haulage in this. I do however worry as to the Health and Safety in such simple things as hand protection whilst handling wire ropes and heavy lifts/pulls. When risk assessments were known by other names as routine operating instructions. I dare say many non-combatants were injured in these recoveries, the odd finger or hand here or there!
Bloody marvellous film! 👍🏻👍🏻 Grandad was REME and “off to War in 44”.....landed Normanday on D+6 and apart from mentioning Scammels, never spoke about Normandy again..... Lovely to see what he would have used on a daily basis, so thank you very much....a cracking good vid!
Thank you for posting these old videos its nice way to learn the right way to get the job done .I started with the 5to1 pull and now I'm hooked no pun intended lol.
I used to work with a bloke who did this all for real during WW11. He used to say that it was great fun at times, but the way the Germans carried on, someone could be hurt. Great bloke.!!
Fun fact.... this is why we more or less abandoned a Churchill in Ireland at the firing range when the engine died and spare parts were not possible, nor repairs in the field. The turret was removed and carried back for exercises. Until we used up the ammo, and buried it in 1967 until it was dug out of Glen of Imaal over 2002 and 2003. It's in Belfast today. No... we didn't have a Scammell...
Let us not forget, in wartime overseas, the tank crew having been knocked out... The whole crew is subject to enemy attack, incoming artillery rounds or sniper... Makes all the prancing around distinctly hazardous, so get on with it efficiently !
My grandfather was in airborne reme but was in ta he drove scammells explorer and pioneer out in Cyprus in 1963 he had to recover a compressor that toppled over into riverine as sappers were building a road out there he also had to recover a series 2 Land Rover green jackets crashed into riverine and towed Land Rover back to compound in Dhekelia and left it there he also towed Fowler bulldozers on a dyson trailer and pioneer he drove had cloth doors but was a rotten old thing and they left it up in mountains by orders of a Captain as they told it was not worth fixing the thing.
Incredible how all this worked back then its beyond amazing how many people in the crew and hoar all of them had to work not to mention that everybody had their job and it involved a whole lot of lifting and knowing what they are doing very COOL!
The film is great for an old sad chap like me. Fascinating and the team work inspiring. Big fan of the Churchill. I read that the Germans thought that we (canadians actually) chose to waste them as obsolete at Dieppe. Big surprise in Tunisia for them though. Favourite story is of a Churchill being hit by several dozen big frontal hits and surviving. On inspection many hits at the rear too. Conclusion was our troops had fired these!
My grandad worked on scammells and drove them he drove one and towed a trailer on back they had about five, six, seven out in Dhekelia, Cyprus in 1963 they were all explorers he had to recover a Land Rover green jackets crashed into a riverine and a compressor also went over and he helped recover that they also drove an old Second World War pioneer and it broke down they couldn’t repair it as it was rotten and Captain told them to leave on a mountain and they dumped it there my grandad was REME TA and a recovery mechanic.
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