LHD Scammell Crusaders

Fancy me overlooking this fine example of a post-60s LHD British lorry! As far as I can ascertain - and the Scammell fraternity must put me right here if I am wrong - all the LHD Crusaders were supplied to the military in the form of a 6x4 unit with Rolls Royce Eagle 304 bhp engine and 15-speed Fuller gearbox. Of course, some eventually found their way into civvy-street as we will see here - and there were some pretty impressive examples, too. Robert :smiley:

EDIT (much later): to say that (a) not all 6x4 examples were ex-military, as many were built for civilian use; and (b) that they were all available with 9-sp Fuller as well as 15-sp Fuller, as evidenced later in this thread :wink:

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By jingo! I’d have liked to have got behind the wheel of one of these! Here’s a picture I took in Lisbon docks in Portugal in '86. Robert

A one-off LHD with Fuller 9-speed!

The LHD interior. Robert

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Well, the LHD Scammell Crusader, with its Motor Panels cab, its split windscreen, its super-strength chassis and its robust drive-line has always really appealed to me. Who knows: maybe I’ll get to drive one yet! In the meantime, keep your contributions coming, chaps; so that we can piece together a fuller history. Robert :smiley:

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Hi Scammell Crusader SAR457J was in Hills of Botley fleet at one time,I believe theres a photo on
trucknet somewhere showing it as right hand drive, but it was left hand at Hills

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Hi Scammell Crusader SAR457J was in Hills of Botley fleet at one time,I believe theres a photo on
trucknet somewhere showing it as right hand drive, but it was left hand at Hills

Good info. Cheers! robert

4 big ones based at minden w Germany 1982 we also had foden tippers which could be seen behind the far scammell

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Good evening Robert

Both the two CRusaders I drove while at Pickfords Heavy Haulage in the early 1980s were LHD, and were not ex-military.

I remember feeling I had become “king of the road” driving them at just 21 years old!!

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robert1952:
Fancy me overlooking this fine example of a post-60s LHD British lorry! As far as I can ascertain - and the Scammell fraternity must put me right here if I am wrong - all the LHD Crusaders were supplied to the military in the form of a 6x4 unit with Rolls Royce Eagle 304 bhp engine and 15-speed Fuller gearbox. Of course, some eventually found their way into civvy-street as we will see here - and there were some pretty impressive examples, too. Robert :smiley:

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In the second pic,is he pishing over the front of that Commer commando :confused: