Origin of the Scania Engine

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I was told recently that Scania origionally got their engine design from AEC. I know that there have been examples of Euro makers taking a British engine design and doing OK with it. I looked all over the place and cant get any info on this, anyone know any facts about it? Like for a start, is it true!

Mal.

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scania vabis built for danish army armyvehicles.dk/scaniatruck1920.htm

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Oddz, it’s the (sort of) modern 6 cylinder power plant im on about, from maybe the 110’s onward? Or maybe those Scania Vabis units before the 110’s?

Mal

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scan this down theres a reference to the first v8
scania.com/Images/10_1547.pdf

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Cheers, interesting stuff, I see there was a partnership with leyland at least.

Mal.

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thats all i can find with reference to british builders i think it went the other way round.Leyland used scania engine not scania used leyland

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Mal the original Scania engine was built under licence from Leyland from which they eventually developed their own

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Yep your wright the scanie lump was built under licence from Leyland trucks …Says it all dont it ?