CRINKLE CRINKLE MEGA STAR

Back in the 1930s, Scammell were slow to begin making rigid eight wheelers and they didn’t unveil their first R8 offering until February 1937. But as Bob Tuck discovers, come the 1960s, their Routeman II and III models were to attain the industry’s coveted ‘Stalwart’ status – and kept it for almost 20 years.

Words Bob Tuck

You can just imagine how the conversation might have gone. Gathered around the huge Watford Board Room table in the mid 1930s, the Scammell management would no doubt be discussing production and how things in general were going. “What about making some of these new fangled rigid eight wheelers,” may have been a question. “We already make eight wheelers,” might have been the reply, “but ours are better than the others as they bend in the middle.” “No, seriously, there seems to be a market for these big rigids – even that new upstart ERF is starting to offer them.” The conversation may have then gone on: “ERF will never last – they’re just an assembler – but I take your point that our flexible eight-wheeler has limited market penetration.…

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