While on the Continental Tyres winter driving jaunt earlier this week (I blog on it soon I promise) Biglorryblog was delighted to bump into my old German mate and freelance writer and snapper Gerlach Fronemann---who as surprising as it seems had not heard of BLB! Anyway as we shuffled across the tarmac at Arvidsjaur airport located above the Arctic circle I noticed Gerlach snapping away on front of this rather strange-looking Scania "pushme-pullyou" snowplough. Quick as a flash I told him; "Send me a couple and you can make your first appearance in Biglorryblog! And who could resist such an offer? So naturally he's sent me these pictures and the following message: "Hello Brian, there are really very interesting lorries/trucks on Biglorryblog. Here are two more pictures of the snowplough at Arvidsjaur. I haven't yet found out what kind of a Sania it is or when it was built. But certainly one of your readers will know that." Well there's a challenge. So BLB anorak army front and centre...what is it?
Now click through here to see the 'other' end of the Scania...weird or what?
I guess it drives one way..and snowploughs in reverse...or maybe it's the other way around?
Hi Brian, I believe this vehicle is a Scania SBA111 and is a militarised version of the standard Scania 111. Many of these had armoured cabs and this is quite possibly a Swedish Army surplus truck.
I agree, this is a Scania SBA 111, which was a militarised version of the 111. There was also a three axle variant known as the SBAT 111. There is a similar truck in a Scania brochure from 1977, with reversable driving controls in a "double cab", and a "snow slinger" machine fitted powered by an independant Scania V8 engine.
Mercedes built a strange double ended tow truck over there for recovering buses from the Adelaide O'Bahn ( guided busway ) will try and find a photo. Regards Peter