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Pioneer recovering a Universal Carrier, Sussex 1941. From 1936, the British Army began to receive Pioneer heavy recovery vehicles. The first 43 delivered were designated the Pioneer SV1S [3] and the Pioneer SV1T both with a 3-ton folding crane and lockers for recovery equipment and towing bars. Most of these early Pioneer recovery vehicles were ...
Wheeled British WWII Scammell Pioneer towing an 8-inch howitzer Tracked Finnish WWII Komsomolets (captured from USSR) Half-tracked German Sd.Kfz. 7 towing an 8.8cm Flak. An artillery tractor, also referred to as a gun tractor, is a specialized heavy-duty form of tractor unit used to tow artillery pieces of varying weights and calibres.
Scammell also gained the contract to develop and build the eight-wheeled version of the Roadtrain called the Constructor 8 model. This also allowed Scammell to develop and produce the complementary S26 range of heavy-haul 4x2, 6x2 and 6x4 tractors, which was a parts-bin build from the Roadtrain and 24 components. [3]
In the November of this year, comparative tests were made between the R.6.T, a Scammell Pioneer and a 4×4 Thornycroft Hathi. The Scammell and the R.6.T were of around the same weight, the older Hathi was lighter but all were given the same test loads of 1 ton on board and a towed 3 inch gun of 6 tons.
Preserved Matador artillery tractor, Beltring 2011. Over 9,600 Matadors were built, [3] some going to the Royal Air Force (RAF). For the British Army, it fulfilled a role between field artillery tractors (FATs) such as the Morris C8 Quad, which towed smaller guns such as the 25-pounder gun-howitzer, and the Scammell Pioneer, used for towing the 7.2-inch howitzer.
1944 Scammell Pioneer recovery vehicle – in RAF livery. (Preserved, 2002) Scammell Scarab in British Railways livery, London, 1962 Oliver Danson North (1887, Willesden Green — 11 November 1968, Haslemere) was a British engineer and automobile designer in the early twentieth century, working for Scammell Lorries from 1922.
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