SEARCH FOR SCAMMELLS
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Five years ago my letter explaining my wish to build a photograph collection of Scammell-badged lorries was published. I received several replies giving me news, information and some photographs from near and far: even the Samson put in a brief appearance.
The collection has now grown to several thousand, black and white and coloured, ancient and modern. lam indebted to Arthur Ingram for his photographs recording street scenes in the heyday of the British lorry, as many showed Scammells. My friends Gordon Blunden and Pat Crang found many photos for me.
However. I am convinced there are still many more. There are Scammells in the farmyard, back yard, sale yard, even the scrap yard, sheeted or just slowly rusting away. There are recovery vehicles which come out only when they are needed or are now redundant and never come out at all. There are Scammells in sheds or barns or in private collections known only to a few, those still in daily use on the roads, others in use off roads on fairgrounds, site work, in quarries. Are they still about? They are all of interest to me.
1 thought it might be cheeky to write a second time, but this is not a commercial or moneymaking concern; it is simply a genuine and interesting hobby which I hope to give more time to now lam retired. My aim is to enlarge and improve the collection if I can. Any further information or advice of any description would be much appreciated, as would any old or forgotten photographs now no longer wanted.
Brian C Macon, 18, Kingfisher Court, Droitwich Spa, Worcs WR9 8UU.