many thanks,
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Nice one Dave, just like the Highwayman I had on Ilkeston Haulage, except for
the singles on the drive axle. If I remember right Crow didn’t have landing legs
on those tankers, was the 5th wheel bolted on?
Spardo:
Nice one Dave, just like the Highwayman I had on Ilkeston Haulage, except for
the singles on the drive axle. If I remember right Crow didn’t have landing legs
on those tankers, was the 5th wheel bolted on?
Even recently many fuel tankers never had landing legs to get those extra few gallons on. I have seen them dropped on a trestle in the workshops in Immingham.
Has anyone got any photos of John Forman or Arrow Bulk, they ran those old Scammels too
What a great photo. Looks like it’s on Brighton seafront and seeing as it looks like two or three people in the cab, I wonder if it was on some sort of commercial vehicle rally.
I seem to remember Reliant Tankers ran these Scammel’s too.
Spardo:
Nice one Dave, just like the Highwayman I had on Ilkeston Haulage, except for
the singles on the drive axle. If I remember right Crow didn’t have landing legs
on those tankers, was the 5th wheel bolted on?
To quote the Highwayman sales brochure for 24 tonners from 1958 - "Semi-spherical bonded rubber bearings, mounted at each end of a crossmember bolted to the chassis side-members carry a steel casting forming the turntable. The pivot pin is a steel forging spigotted and bolted to the casting.
The heavy duty Scammell Automatic Coupling was also available.
Up to the '60’s Scammell tended to build complete vehicles rather than units and trailers. Swapping trailers was not common then and artics started as a way around the taxation and weight laws back in the early 1920’s. Landing legs were therefore an optional extra on Scammells, the early ones being screw jacks which were used to lift the trailer clear of the tractor.
The Mk1 Handyman had the same arrangement as the Highwayman and it’s not until the Mk2 Handyman (Michollotti cab) that what we now recognise as a fifth wheel became standard and trailers in brochures usually, but not always, had landing legs.
Rattlesnake Dave:
What a great photo. Looks like it’s on Brighton seafront and seeing as it looks like two or three people in the cab, I wonder if it was on some sort of commercial vehicle rally.
I seem to remember Reliant Tankers ran these Scammel’s too.
HCVS London to Brighton run.
Here is an old Crow Scania
Regards Pat
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I took the liberty of resizing your picture as it was only a thumbnail, then it was too big when I took the TH out.
Hope you dont mind.
Nice picture by the way
thank you for the new pic 
Looking at that Crow Scammell,it’s the same as the one I drove on Shell.It had a black oil tank that was offloaded via an air compressor the blew the load out. It’s reg. was ALH 470B and I took it over from “Granny Lawrence” who now,sadly,is no longer with us.It flew along and the brakes were some of the best I’ve ever driven.The noise tho’ was a killer.900X20.
The last driver to work for Crow in the north west is still alive and kicking and works for Gussion at Widnes…Tommy Penn othwerwise known as F*CK OFF Tommy
sorry every one i havent got the picture sizing right yet can anyone help me
im new on here .by the way you want to see more crows ive got plenty
as any one else more crows pls let me know thx
I tried to resize that for you, I dont like image shack and use photobucket, however if you click on your picture it does expand slightly, or you can remove the th from the properties to get this.
original properties were:
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I removed the red bits including the full stop and put it all between image tags.
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