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Great to look at in a show ' Awful to drive not all the old days were good

I love your. Truck. The. Scammell. Six by. Six. Is execelant. Of. Road❤

At Last! Bring on the big boys, time to drive a Centurion Main Battle Tank! The Dogs Bollocks! Now we’re talking. Fifty tons of steel, a 27,000cc Rolls Royce Meteor Engine (of Spitfire fame), a crash unmeshed gear box and a giant thirst of four gallons of petrol to the mile. Fabulous and very exciting! Delighted that I wasn’t paying for the petrol I started my Centurion familiarisation course. I was taught to drive a centurion gun-tank at Bordon by a polish guy called Ray Stopinski. He could drive the Cent second to none. 27000cc, crash box, stick changes, double de-clutching, no brakes of any use. Real proper driving. Even with 27000cc to move it about the Cent takes some skill to get moving. Particularly so in mud, on sand, and across uneven ground. Tank driver training grounds tend to be uneven, muddy places and all the mud and unevenness wants to do is stop your Cent from moving. Stick in the mud. So off we go. In a cent there are three conventional pedals, except their huge. The gearstick rises between your legs and the steering is through two tillers at either side of your seat. Pull the right one to turn right and vice versa on the left. Start the engine, clutch in, into 2nd gear and off we go. On the hard standing its straightforward. Into third gear, double-declutch, same as a lorry. Match the engine revs to the transmission and road speed. Up and down the box. Five up and down, two reverse. Gently pull on the tillers and the Cent changes direction on its central axis. Fabulous and easy, how good is this. Next day onto rough ground, ‘The ‘Ulu’’ all rough ground is ‘The ‘Ulu’’. Off the hardstanding, it’s been raining and onto ‘The ‘Ulu’’. Onto mud. The Cent becomes a strange abrasively argumentative new animal. Whereas on the road its easy and obedient on the mud it doesn’t want to go. Add a little angle of hill and it just stops. Try again, pull off, stop. Try again, pull off, change gear, just stop. Try again, pull off, build up revs, go a little faster, change up, die a death, and stop. For fucks sake! Ray Stopinski waves his red circle traffic lollipop. Try again, same thing starts, try. Stop. For fucks sake. Have a fag sitting on the gun barrel. Ray explains that the mud and the wet and the angle all serve to stop the vehicle moving. I can’t get it from 2nd to 3rd. Ray explains I need to ‘stick-change’. What is a stick-change? He explains that stick change is a simultaneous three-way action involving the clutch, the gearstick and a steering tiller that must be done super quickly. So that the next gear is selected before the speed attained in the 2nd gear isn’t lost before the clutch is re-engaged and the engine power re-applied. Oh! Why didn’t you say so. It’s as clear as the three feet deep mud we are attempting driving in. It’s a complicated thing to explain to a relatively inexperienced driver. It’s even more complicated if it’s explained in a thick polish accent, with a wet fag in your gob, while gesticulating wildly with a red traffic lollipop and sitting on a centurion tank barrel in the rain parked in three feet of sticking mud. But it worked and I got it. Once you’ve got it you’ve got it. It’s just suddenly there. A fabulous feeling of achievement and strangely enough the more you practice the slicker you get. A real skill. I’d go so far to say If you could drive a Centurion properly you were the 'creme de la creme' of drivers in the entire British Forces. Much better than 'any' other drivers, there was more to it. No automatics, no synchromesh. If you can get one of these fifty-ton steel beast moving quickly, especially when towing on ‘The ‘Ulu’’, then you are a master and can drive anything. You were the 'best of the best'. www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0CM3X4SC2

Beautiful bit of kit..😍

okay that is it i'm building this device for my touareg lol

One of those Mack's still in service school or artillery park hill 1970

Scammel explorers, fantastic axle articulation with the portal axles for ground clearance.

Well. That was completely different.

I like it.😀😀

If I'm ever in a position to own an explorer I'd probably have a Gardner 6 cylinder in it but the Meadows is just such a great soundtrack.

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To say I'm amazed is greatly understating the true depth of my amazement. I shall most likely remain in this heightened state of amazement for quite some time to come.

Okay, now I want one even more... man, I wish we had these in the States! Pretty slick system right there!

They need chains.

Truly fantastic, really loved the video, more please 🙏 , wonderful British engineering that’s still going !!!! Enough said then !!!

I have a question. If they're not synchronized in some way like with speed , power, torque will the weaker one/ones be be a burden to the stronger one/ones 🤔

Look at the soil they're on. It's greasy cow dung. Only a spike wheel tractor could pull in that.

Having the text do all that makes it hard to read and it doesn't remain still long enough to read. Fancy but frustrating. But I like the color of your lathe!

Even LESS 'amazing' than the 'ploughing' that you promote as 'the 2nd most amazing' Scammel video. Anyone who finds either video 'amazing' really needs to get out more.

Nothing particularly amazing. Failed recovery attempt - successful ploughing of a field.

Aaaaw happy memories of the old Explorer I restored from 'scrap' condition into a lovely old girl. Had to sell her when i lost my job. She was called 'LIBERATOR'!! I had the Gardner 180 in mine what engine you got in yours mate?

Spoiler. It doesn’t get any more exciting than the first five seconds

Beautiful vehicle!! One of my favourites!!

Краз сила!🤘🤘🤘🤘

they are closer together than I thought then

The scammels aren’t too bad considering they were made just after the war , they’re more than likely the oldest trucks there

Excellent articulation 👍

How long did it take to get money for the petrol

and im also glad uncle albert got to drive it.

that is amazing

I thought Robins were three wheeled... Now to see a tracked M274 Mule

Scammell = 👍🏻

Why do people insist on running Scammells without the engine side panes of, don't they realise that they're part of the cooling system? (Ex VMbEA1*)

You have no wintch ???

To improve ground anchor effect a 4ft gun plank should be placed vertically between the two rear wheels , effectively giving 100% more Anchorage.

Nice looking long tom and prime mover. 👍👍👌

and the outboard on the back is nearly as good as getting uncle Albert to drive it.

is that 12L14?

I'm intrigued as to which footage is number one!

Where to watch a offroad 4X4 - 8X8 competition or race in UK please or is here any..????????? In czech republic we call it TRUCK TRIAL....

WHO remembers „ stick changing „?

Love this😁😁

I have done this with scammed and leyland. Martian recovery veh the better veh. More. Modern

Off the side break!!

Independent suspension

2:29 What's a Spifire ?

So ?

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I need more of this... for science 😏