My old man was REME in WW2, ' an he loved it.Said it was proper workhorse, did every thing he wanted.. he evan (and his mate Dirty Percy) took cover under it when he was dived bombed in the desert..Saved their life's...long live the Scammel...
I have driven one of these in my youth. it was a garage breakdown truck that was ex RAF. very heavy to drive. it belonged to a garage nr berkswell Warwickshire called anns pantry. at the time I was working at gambles garage at meer end.
When I was in the TA we pulled into Catterick for some grub and when the RSM spotted us he asked us to pull out a Chieftan tank that was half buried outside his office and our corporal at the time who was an ex regular Recce mech said no probs so we rigged up and out she came no problem using our old Scammel like this one but ours was petrol.
My grandad dumped a 1939 pioneer with cloth doors on a mountain out in Cyprus in 1963 as it was a wreck by orders of Captain they had about five or seven of explorers out there all sandy coloured my grandad drove one with a dyson trailer on back towing a Fowler and had to recover a compressor that toppled over and a Land Rover the Green Jackets crashed into a riverine they towed that back to compound in Dhekelia and dumped it in there my grandad got told off by an RSM for getting sunburnt he was in TA REME but it was para.
My grandad used to drive these out in Cyprus in 1963 when he served in TA they had about five or seven of them they also had 1939 pioneer with cloth doors which was a wreck it broke down on them and they couldn’t repair it so Captain told them to leave it on mountain and they did.
I drove one of these around in Germany and N.I back in the late sixties. In N.I. we called ours "Nan"..recovered an old Armoured Pig with a smashed rear axle,by rear suspended tow from near Larne and back through Belfast to our base in Long Kesh.
Scammell Explorer says to flatbed truck with crane "I may be old as your grandparent but I will drag you young thing out of your predicament with no trouble at all even if we do make a couple of furrows through the grass in the process"!
Удивительная машина какие возможности считывать рельеф по которому она движется я видел автомобили Лаффли вот инженерная мысль реализована и это в конце тридцатых и сороковых годов прошедшего века .
What a Gem she is, they don't make them like that any more. Thanks for saring the video i'ts great, just wondering how the Daf managed to get out there in the first place?
It's the winch mechanism, not the Scammell thats proving its worth - but that's hardly "recovery" when all you do is attach a cable and pull - possibly exceeding the safe strain on the cable (and on the winch)
