6 X 6

Yo Dude,

While I can understand that pulling up outside the house with a full size Scammell Explorer could unsettle the women folk it might be possible if you introduce the idea gradually.

May I suggest you start with one of these......small enough to wear on a key ring. Just leave it lying around the house.

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After a few weeks do the same with this one..... at 3" long just a bit bigger.

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Getting the idea ? Next, drive this one around the living room.

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http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=_xHs82ALbDw&feature=related

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After a couple of months of this conditioning process turning up with a full sized, snorting, Scammell won't even raise an eyebrow. Try it Dude ! It works every time ! (in the extremely unlikely circumstance that this ploy doesn't work I have the 'phone number of an excellent marriage guidance counselor in Vancouver)

Antony, to me, the significant characteristic of the design of this trailer is the intention to lower the height of the bed as far as possible. Are there sixteen wheels ? I can only see eight relatively light duty, fairly small diameter wheels. Certainly, placing the axle above the leaf springs suggests the need to lower the bed was more important than carrying a very heavy payload.

I'm surprised the unusually low ground clearance of this trailer didn't cause it to constantly bog down while it was on farm duties.

Possibly, the key to figuring out what this trailer was built for is to understand why it needed to be so low. Was it's load very high, was it intended to pass under some fixed structure or is it simply a low loader used with rear ramps as it was during it's farm days ???????

What kind of braking system does this trailer have and are there any indications that it was designed for road use or intended to be confined to an airfield, dockyard or works ?

I beleave that it was the chassis for either a radar trailer or a search light trailer.

Howard.

Forum member ackack may have something helpful to say as he is currently restoring a WW11 radar trailer.

I am sure that it is an ex British Army trailer of WW2 vintage,

Antony, thank you for posting these 'photos of this very interesting trailer. What has led you to believe this trailer has some military connection ? Thanks.

Gritineye,

Thank you for such a comprehensive reply. Well, if it does what it says on the tin, any time spent disassembling and thoroughly degreasing the PS UJ's before introducing the sticky stuff to ensure that it is effective would be time very well spent.

It just does go to show how far ahead of it's time the Scammell transmission lay out was that it has taken until now for the lubrication industry to catch up and provide a suitable grease.

Gritineye, do let us know how you get on with props and hubs. Thanks.

so far only one application in the props and some has been thrown out as usual! But it may get better as more of the old grease gets forced out each time.

 

 

This sounds like a marvelous product and I'll certainly be buying some but isn't it being a bit optimistic expecting it to adhere to surfaces already greased with conventional non-sticky grease ? I don't know but surely one would need to remove all traces of oil and grease before the Tru Blu stuff could bond with a bearing and resist being expelled ? Has anyone experience of this ? Do you you need to degrease before using Tru Blu ? Thanks.

YouTube link to a video of the same two lorries leaving RAF Colerne later the same day.

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=OU-HXMb2uUU

I wonder where that bit of film came from, real period stuff, going by the other traffic. Leaves you wanting more

Sorry gentlemen ! No intention to mislead anyone, just me mucking about with the black and white mode. This snippet of video is of YFO 311 and YSV 865 on the 2001 Bournemouth to Bath road run climbing Bannerdown Hill up to Colerne Airfield where the road run used to end. To me, everything looks more 1950's in B&W and therefore better.

Austro-Daimler ADZK Tractor.

Austro-Daimlar ADAZ 6 X 6 Heavy Tractor.

Sorry, but more likely the engines were (or still are) driving irrigation pumps?? :-D

 

What about Antars supplied to Turkey and India, have any been repatriated or are known to be still working, in civilian hands, in these countries ?

Does anyone know if any of the Pakistani Antars made it through to preservation ?

Back in the old days, a tank similar to this would be fitted alongside an Argar or similar to provide hot water for washing etc. Might that be it?

Thank you, that's possibility. I'll be following up all these leads. Cheers.

I know mk3 millys like being parked in a nice warm barn!!! lol :0)

I should think this one would prefer to be in barn or at least under a duvet.

p.s. thanks to a suggestion from 6 x 6 in an earlier thread I had no repeat of the brakes sticking on, problem solved!!

You will be receiving my invoice in due course.

DAF FTT 3500 Tractor with DAF YTS 10050 semi-trailer carrying Leopard MBT. Come on Les, your turn now mate.

DAF YA 616, 6 X 6, 6-ton truck.

Someone else has got the 1971 MVEE book then??!!

 

The one which says the Tranfer gearbox, like the main gearbox had 6 speeds and reverse!!!!

Because, as with all books, I only look at the pictures I'd missed that......36 forward gears in total. Impressive. Some mountain bikes don't even have that many.

I'd be surprised if it was used for water. Aluminium tanks tend to leave water with a nasty taste after a short while.

Wouldn't be allowed now certainly as aluminium disolved in water is linked to alzheimers.

I only use stainless and understand very well what you're saying. Maybe not for drinking water then. IF this was a wartime artifact why use scarce aluminum and why the carrying handles and oversize filler hole ?

Thank you for explaining about Parkinson and Cowan.

You're doing a great job Roland. I'm not surprised that you are needing to do this work, I've had a Crusader and their cabs are very poorly protected against rust. I'm sure someone on here will be able to advise you about the exhaust part you require.

As this thread is getting a little long I have made an index!!

 

Nice one gritineye, thanks for the effort you've put in .:tup::