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| jeffersj Member Since: 23 Jan 2015 Location: Near Preston Posts: 431   
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You young things!!
I was driving these in Germany during the 1980s. Beautiful wagon to drive, spent many a night in the woods sleeping on the long exterior toolboxes. Jeff Ex 1968 Series 2A Ex 90 TD5 Ex D3 Ex D4 |
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27th Sep 2017 10:15am |
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| blackwolf Member Since: 03 Nov 2009 Location: South West England Posts: 17382 
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I went up to one to the Ruddington disposal auctions many years ago to buy a Sankey trailer, and the Scammell Explorers were selling for around the £300 mark, complete with all CES and equipment, and in good enough condition to drive home. I was so tempted!
The downside to the Explorer was the Meadows 10-litre petrol engine, which made it expensive to run even when petrol was under a pound a gallon. The Pioneer, with its beautiful Gardner 6LW, was more attractive to the collector, but they'd all be cast by then. |
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27th Sep 2017 12:34pm |
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| spudfan Member Since: 10 Sep 2007 Location: Co Donegal Posts: 4661 
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Always fancied an Alvis..... 1982 88" 2.25 diesel 1992 110 200tdi csw -Zikali 2008 110 2.4 tdci csw-Zulu 2011 110 2.4 tdci csw-Masai |
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27th Sep 2017 11:08pm |
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| MGCarr Member Since: 18 Nov 2016 Location: Lancashire Posts: 59 
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Many years ago I had the good fortune to drive both a Pioneer and an Explorer that belonged to a very good friend of mine who was and still is heavily involved in the preservation of historic military vehicles, they were both amazingly competent trucks to use off road. The only downside I can remember was the air assisted power steering which, when manoeuvring in a tight spot, could exhaust the air supply and leave you stranded until the engine driven compressor built up pressure again.
A workshop foreman that I worked with who was also a Bombadior Sergeant Major in the TA used tell the story of taking one of these, I think the Explorer, out to Germany on excersises and breaking halfshafts in both rear axles and having to drive it all the way back from Germany to the UK in front wheel drive only, he claimed to have built up biceps that no gym could match  |
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28th Sep 2017 1:38am |
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| blackwolf Member Since: 03 Nov 2009 Location: South West England Posts: 17382
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No power steering on the Pioneer - power assistance was a pickaxe handle through the spokes of the steering wheel!
Explorer had air assistance. Luxury! Pioneer (except for a couple of prototypes) was 6x4, Explorer was 6x6, both had the Scammell walking beam rear end with a single diff and one set of halfshafts driving a gearcase on each side, to which the pair of wheels on that side were attached. This is how the huge wheel articulation was achievable. Great vehicles, both of them. |
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28th Sep 2017 8:53am |
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