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Matilda tank equipped with AMRA Mk 1a being loaded onto a Scammell transporter, August 1942. Delivery of a production tank transporter did not begin until 1937. This was equipped with a longer wheelbase for an extended cab to accommodate the tank crew as passengers and larger rear wheels than the artillery tractor and recovery vehicle variants.
The Scammell Commander was a heavy equipment transporter manufactured by Scammell for the Royal Corps of Transport. It is a tank transporter of UK origin, developed mid 1970s to succeed the Thornycroft Antar in UK military service. It entered service in 1984 and between 1983 and 1985, 125 were built with the Royal Corps of Transport being the ...
The Commander was introduced as a tank transporter in 1978. [11] Designed in the late 1970s, they replaced the Thornycroft Antars in the British Army beginning with the delivery of the first one on 30 March 1984 followed by others totaling 125 units. [12] The 6×4 units could carry a load of 65 tonnes and were used to transport Challenger I tanks.
Diamond T tank transporter: USA 1940s–1970s British Army, US Army, Dutch Army, Indian Army: Scammell Commander: UK 1986–2002 British Army: Sd.Kfz. 9/18-ton heavy tank transporter Sd.Ah.116 Nazi Germany: 1940s Nazi German Army – Wehrmacht: Thorneycroft 'Mighty' Antar with 'FV30011 semi-trailer 50-ton tank transporter' UK 1940s–1986
The M19 tank transporter (US supply catalog designation G159) was a heavy tank transporter system used in World War II and into the 1950s. It consisted of a 12-ton 6×4 M20 Diamond T model 980 truck and companion 12-wheel M9 trailer. Over 5,000 were produced, and employed by Allied armies throughout all theaters of war.
The civilian version of the Mighty Antar was developed in the late 1940s as an oilfield vehicle for transporting pipes over rough ground. [1] They were of 6×4 layout (i.e. six wheels, four of them driven), with the front (steering) axle undriven and with twin wheels on both driven (rear) axles (technically ten wheels, eight of them driven, as each rear axle has four wheels).
Cheffins auctioneers said the tank and transporter are the ‘definition of a big boy’s toy and a true feat of engineering’. Engineer who was bored in retirement builds remote control tank and ...
The M1070F replaced the Scammell Commander as the British army tank transporter in 2001. Before the development of the M1070A1 for the U.S. Army, the more powerful M1070E model was developed as a possible Technology Insertion Programme (TIP) for the M1070A0 fleet.