moomooland:
Here’s a few shots of British Rail Scammell Scarabs out and about around Manchester in the 1960’s5Ashton Road
4Oldham Road goods depot.
3Cross Street Manchester.
2London Road Manchester.
1 London Road junction with Fairfield Street.
0Chorlton on Medlock Upper Brook Street
Another fine selection of nostagia.
Not certain but were some Scarabs two strokes and nippy. A mate of mine went to work for BRS Whitecity Old Trafford about 1965 and drove a Deisel Scarab but remarked two strokes were better for town work. About late 1960s I was loading long lenths of steel from British Rail yard at Rotherhan or Sheffield and they had automatic coupling trombone trailers. They had a mixture of dinky low tonnage Ford Custom cabs and a few Scarabs. I am not sure if these vehicles went on the road but they were agile to reverse into confined spaces.
Cheers Kev