The Scammell Explorer was a 6x6 cross-country vehicle introduced in 1950 with a Meadows petrol engine. It replaced the recovery version of the Pioneer, the 6x4 off-highway tractor with which Scammell had made its name in the late 1920s and which formed the basis of the wartime tank transporters, gun tractors and heavy recovery vehicles. The Scammell Register lists the 6x6 Explorer among the vehicles with which the company kept its military presence in the years after the war, alongside the 4x4 Mountaineer and, by 1952, the Constructor, while it also worked in heavy construction, oil drilling, mining and logging.
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General History, year
1950 The 6x6 Explorer with a Meadows petrol engine replaced the recovery version of the Pioneer.
General History, engine
1950 The 6x6 Explorer with a Meadows petrol engine replaced the recovery version of the Pioneer.
General History, propulsion
1950 The 6x6 Explorer with a Meadows petrol engine replaced the recovery version of the Pioneer.
General History, maker
1950 The 6x6 Explorer with a Meadows petrol engine replaced the recovery version of the Pioneer.
Of Make: Scammell, General History, make
1950 The 6x6 Explorer with a Meadows petrol engine replaced the recovery version of the Pioneer.
In Group: European Heavy Trucks, General History, group
1950 The 6x6 Explorer with a Meadows petrol engine replaced the recovery version of the Pioneer.
Exemplifies: Road Freight Transport, General History, mode
1950 The 6x6 Explorer with a Meadows petrol engine replaced the recovery version of the Pioneer.
View the SourceThe History of Scammell Lorries Limited (The Scammell Register)
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