Scammell Rammel

[dollywobbler]

Just felt like looking at some old Scammells on Flickr. I loved these when I was a child, but I can't really explain why.

 

This one's too narrow for the bloke's name. (Cock of the north - lol)

 

This is just cool.

 

You would give way to this.

 

OMG! One of those Autobianchi things! And a cross woman. And a Scammell thing.

 

Scammell Handyman. Nice front-exit exhaust!

[dollywobbler]

Some blokes like them big.

 

Highwayman gearchange. It's like one of those buzzy wire things! Don't touch the sides!

 

Top tipper action

[gricer]

The Scammell Routeman (the fluted fibreglass cab) was designed by Michelotti. They made them until 1980...

[Des]

Scammels were made across town from me, I miss seeing them being driven from the factory in chassis form, poor bastard drivers freezing their bollocks off in winter. Nice dismal and insipid housing estate on the former site now, sickening to think that the site which produced great machinery that can still be seen in service worldwide, now houses bland living death bini driving plebscum.

 

Claim to fame, steel racking in my garage came from Scammels.

[dollywobbler]

Ah, that explains a lot. I do tend to be a fan of his work.

[scruff]

That Handyman at the bottom belongs to a real top fella from Sussex who uses it to move his traction engine about, the wagon and the engine live in the garden of his semi-detached

[flat4alfa]

I was a Watford-bred lad too, doncha know.

 

My Missus' Dad was apprenticed there in the fifties and lasted until the gates closed. Apparently most tooling was just skipped. His house is still furnished with the best the social club rooms could offer. There's a smart Commander painting on his wall too. Not in the house, his garage wall obviously. His wife drew the line.

 

 

 

 

There should be Scammell club run soon. Will find out when. Usually meet at the Croxley classic show and then convoy up to the Bini Estate

[Rhythm Thief]

There was a six wheeler (not sure what model, but it didn't have a bonnet) kicking about the yard at Arthur Spriggs when I worked there last year. All kitted out as a recovery truck and painted in Spriggs' colours. I really really really wanted a go in it.

[Cavcraft]

The Scammell Routeman (the fluted fibreglass cab) was designed by Michelotti. They made them until 1980...

 

Wasn't there a (Leyland) Roadtrain badged as Scammell in the early days of them coming out? I wondered if it'd been a bit of badge engineering to try and attract Scammell lovers of old to buy a new truck. A bit like the Foden badged DAFS of more recent times.

Anyhow that tipper is fantastic, definately the nicest looking of the bunch imho.

[scooters]

wasn't the phrase "show us your scammell wheel nuts" a 70's polite way of asking a lady to disrobe her brazier?

[Skizzer]

I believe so, though it was largely theoretical for me in the 1970s.

 

Those Scammell Handymen (-mans?) always remind me of archetypal TV psycho villain actor George Sweeney:

[scruff]

The Scammell Routeman (the fluted fibreglass cab) was designed by Michelotti. They made them until 1980...

 

Wasn't there a (Leyland) Roadtrain badged as Scammell in the early days of them coming out? I wondered if it'd been a bit of badge engineering to try and attract Scammell lovers of old to buy a new truck. A bit like the Foden badged DAFS of more recent times.

Anyhow that tipper is fantastic, definately the nicest looking of the bunch imho.

 

AFAIK they used the Leyland cab but the underpinnings were all Scammell. The army have still got a few

 

http://tractors.wikia.com/wiki/Scammell_S26

[Spottedlaurel]

Wasn't there a (Leyland) Roadtrain badged as Scammell in the early days of them coming out? I wondered if it'd been a bit of badge engineering to try and attract Scammell lovers of old to buy a new truck. A bit like the Foden badged DAFS of more recent times.

 

Like this one?

 

1985-86 Scammell by Spottedlaurel, on Flickr

 

Also:

 

1965 Scammell Highwayman (Magnox) by Spottedlaurel, on Flickr

 

1978-79 Scammell Crusader by Spottedlaurel, on Flickr

[AeroNautiCal]

I too, loved these Scammell's as a kid, as well as the Volvo F88 and Guy Warrior, which I thought was a great name for a truck.

 

Proper trucks!

 

[Split_Pin]

There were quite a few t45 Scammells in the 1980's. The latest one I have seen is an an F plate tractor unit in an old Truck magazine I have, fitted with a Cummins C series. The heavy duty tractor was called the S26, and they also built 8 wheelers called the Constructor. These didnt have the large 'Scammell' script under the windscreen, but instead had the name in small letters next to the 'Constructor' badge above the bumper. These ones were still badged as Leylands.

 

Other than the heavy duty tractor unit, I havent been able to work out the difference between these and their Leyland equivalents.

[fotorabia]

ive posted these before..on Isle of Mull last year,,

[simmo]

I used to drive this one occasionally, BAA got it from Lantern's about 15 years ago, its a LHD with a RR engine

 

[shellac]

For Scammells you need to go to Sheffield - to Harrisons - they still have most of their old fleet -

 

1967 Scammell Highwayman JRH752E by fryske, on Flickr

Scammell Highwayman HWJ940C awaits the next job by fryske, on Flickr

Scammell R8 SMF149 by fryske, on Flickr

Harrisons October 2009 (4) by fryske, on Flickr

Pair of Scammell Highwayman units by fryske, on Flickr

[oman5]

I thought Harrison's were gone now? I know Syd passed away a while back. It made my day though, seeing one of these old timers trundling along the M1. I'd jump at the chance to work something like this.

They started off with a standard Scammell Highwayman, many of them ex-fuel tankers, and then fitted a second scammell front axle to turn it into a 6x2, also installing a gardner engine in place of the 0.680. They never threw anything away, cannibalising or reconditioning time expired vehicles.

 

On the subject of scammell, its bonus points if you spot a 6x4 crusader still fitted with its 8v71 detroit diesel 2-stroke. music to the ears.

[warren t claim]

I'm so glad I'm not doing my job 40 yeas ago. Those things look awful to drive.

[CreepingJesus]

On the subject of scammell, its bonus points if you spot a 6x4 crusader still fitted with its 8v71 detroit diesel 2-stroke. music to the ears.

 

There was a classic truck rally passed by my house last summer; not only was there such a Crusader, but also something American (short-nose Mack iirc) with the same. And a TS Commer close behind.

Funnily enough, a mate of mine used to drive a Pioneer on recovery work, when he lived in Plockton. According to him, they're every bit as hard to drive as you'd expect. Backed up by my grandfather, who swore the only guy who could drive one single-handed was this massive Jamaican bloke. That was in the RAF, back in WW2 btw! I'd love to give it a go - sounds like a challenge.

Was the raison d'etre of the T45 Scammells not roughly the same as that of the DAF-Fodens? The main model range was all made in a certain way, but a significant minority of operators (often tipper companies) wanted the chassis particularly, built a different way? I know that was the case with the DAF-Foden chassis at least: all-bolted construction, and different x-members and flitching.

[revolting peasant]

[Justin Case]

From an earlier generation, a one family owner Scammell Showtrac, now very rare and sought-after:

 

Scammell Showtrac - Pat Collins by geoffp5, on Flickr

[simmo]

 

Spotted this one today

[scooters]

I'm so glad I'm not doing my job 40 yeas ago. Those things look awful to drive.

 

 

imagine driving one of those over Shap mid winter pre M6! You'd have to be built like popeye

[brammy777]

Jesus Christ Simmo, I think I recognise that one. Fairground Lorry yard in Hook right?! Not a place I would really want to be taking photos, nice one.

[simmo]

Yep spot on with location, it did sound like some hounds were being released as we left

[warren t claim]

I'm so glad I'm not doing my job 40 yeas ago. Those things look awful to drive.

 

 

imagine driving one of those over Shap mid winter pre M6! You'd have to be built like popeye

 

You mean people used to drive trucks without night heaters, air conditioning, ABS, automatic transmission, power steering, disc brakes, microwaves, fridges and cupholders? Mad bastards! I fuckin' wouldn't!

 

Realistically, very few old trucks could hack it today as a workable alternative to a 60 plate Volvo/Scania/MAN/I***O/DAF. The only one that springs to mind is the Ford Transcontinental. Designed by Patrick Le Quément of Renault fame IIRC.

[Cavcraft]

Raise you with one of these with a Roller engine...

 

[tooSavvy]

Woodie Zone... old trucks

 

I love to drive the old A6 [Penrith down to Kendal]. I remember someone saying (back in the days when 'sprockets' were swapped for long downhill drags ) that the house, at the bridge at the foot of the long hill [road now remodelled], had bits of lorry in the Garden... scary

 

tooSavvy