The Governor

Thanks again for the replies, I can now see that there is a few things that I need to look out for on the second hand market, I will have to get the air lines sorted out first. David, as you can see from the photo, "missing but not forgotten". I still have those two supports, and the key's which I removed when I put the tow bar on, to pull what was our home for a year. The tow bar is secured in the same bolt holes, so just unscrew,and refit.They are waiting to be refitted when they have been restored, so if you are a dab hand at cleaning them, come on over and re live your past .LOL. The Governor.

Thanks for the replies. Andy, are the two "triangle's" extra's fitted to help the operative get up on the back, or standard fitments ? The Governor.

In both photo's are the ends of my air lines for connecting to trailers if towing. As you can see, they are incorrect. Does any one have a detailed close up photo of this area on both sides with the correct ends and brackets ?, which I guess would have been bolted to the main frame in the two holes adjacent to the area I am discussing. Thanks in advance. The Governor.

Thank you very much for the information you got up early this morning to put on this thread Blue Belle. I now have some history to go with the lorry. I read your post, elated that there was now some photographic evidence this lorry served with a certain unit, however, I was gutted that I had missed the fact that it was sand stone from your photo that you had provided. Yes I had seen the sand stone on the jib, but I thought I had seen it over the green. I did not have the chance to check till later this afternoon, when I new I had seen the green as the first colour this Scammell was from the factory. I accept it could be restored in the sand stone colour, and maybe it will in time. But to change the colour would mean a full nut and bolt restoration, money does not allow this for now, so green it will stay for the time being. The Governor.

As the proud custodian of 94BD67, what a find. It has put "the hairs up on my neck" to see a piece of history recorded on film, and in my back yard is that lorry, still alive and well. Kind regards, The Governor.

After two coats of primer, it's on to the undercoat. At last it is becoming a little less rusty as the areas are treated to a clean up and a new coat of paint. And before anyone comments on the pink tow hook, my paint supplier suggested pink was a good undercoat for red. I used it on other projects and found it a very good base for the red. The Governor.

Thanks for the comments, keep watching, lets see if this project is as enjoyable. A good days sun today, so I finished off preparing the surface for the first coat of primer. The Governor.

It's rained all day, but a final break in the weather allowed me to make some progress. I removed all the pulley's and rollers on the rear frame to clean up the framework, and components before painting. The Governor.

Good to hear from you John, now between you and me, I have just gone out after 8 hours of rain, it's sunny and I have just striped the rear rollers and pulley's off the rear framework, and cleaned the paintwork up ready to prime tomorrow. I could not paint round them. Hope you will be pleased the standards are still high ! The Governor.

On the last page, there is a photo of the ministry of supply plate that has the information 94 BD 67. Can I assume that this would have been the military number plate that I do not have on the lorry at present ? I am a month into the restoration of the little fellow, and would have been on here with a blog from the start,if I had known about this forum, so work carried out so far is as follows. The front "fairlead" rollers were all seized, so I removed them and pressed out the pins and cleaned up all the parts, they now work as they should. One of the rear pulleys that the cable runs through was also seized, because the drainage hole was blocked, and the water sat in the pulley, and over time, it seized. The passenger door has succumbed to rust to the lower 3 inches, so it will need a little work, i.e new metal, before painting. Several people on here will know me from other restorations on other forums, and know my attention to details, however money is tight and this has to be done to a tight budget, so as this lorry is not original in many respects,with lots of military parts and equipment missing, I hope to make it presentable, and keep it as is, rather than restore it to as near perfect, so I hope this does not offend anyone. However I have looked at several restoration blogs and can see that the standards are very high.

I bought this little boy 9 years ago, we nicked named him "Sissy" because of it's registration plate, but really it is a brute of a lorry, pulling many tons of trailer, and 6 other explorers and militants in the show ring with ease. However it is also capable of showing another side of it character, by how easy and with full control it slowly inches up to trailers and lorries before it is connected up to them. When we bought this lorry, it had had a heavy general overhaul, so a repaint is all that we need to do, but you know where this is going.

Nice to see I am not the only one who likes to do two or three projects at the same time. Kind regards, Mark.

Hi all, I live in Essex, my name is Mark and I am 52. I have no military back ground, however a lot of staff I have had the pleasure to work with,have been and what a great group they have been. I have been the proud owner of a Scammell Explorer for 9 years. Over the years we have been to the local shows towing a caravan, road runs and a little bit of off roading. Sadly the Scammell has taken a back seat in our rally scene, however, things are to change, as I am giving the old boy a good clean and repaint to take him out next year to the local rallies for a change. I am as happy in the workshop restoring things as driving them, and in the very near future I hope to start a thread on the restoration as it progresses, and although I am a month into the restoration, I am sure I have a few photo's of the progress, just got to work out how the photo's are put on here. Oh, and what job did I have,the clues in my call sign. The Governor.