Given my recent posting on the Scammell Trunker...and the fact that I can never remember which is which between a Highwayman and trunker (and then get a right good ear-bashing from Bob Tuck) Richard Stanier (the old 'Brochure King') has ridden to Biglorryblo's rescue with this strange offering and message: "Hi Brian, We all know that 'Wor Bobby' gets a little irritated with your (admittedly) p*** poor identification skills regarding 'cheese grater' Scammells. But I am going to leap to your defence here, and suggest that it's partly Scammell's fault. You see the 'Trunker' was only fitted with a similar cab to the Routeman and Handyman in its' Mark 11 and 111 variants - the Mark One, was a very different beast indeed, and easily identified from the others because of its' LAD cab as this picture shows. And the Trunker One was also highly unusual in that it was powered by a Horizontal Gardner 150 engine, but alas it was not a successful design and (apparently) only three examples were ever built. Cheers! Rich."
Horizontal Gardner diesels were very popular in bus chassis. I heard somewhere that Gardner didnt approve of the idea initially and that the first conversion was done by somebody else.
That rings a bell with me too, Pete. I seem to recall someone telling me Guy Motors converted a Gardner to Horizontal form, but I cannot verify this.
Isn't it amazing what you learn on BLB! I thought I knew a little about Scammells and Gardners, but I have never heard of this LAD-cabbed Scammell (maybe it should be called a LADS cab!) and I had never heard of a horizontal Gardner being fitted to a truck, or being a Scammell I should probably say "lorry".
By the way, did you know there was a horizontal Gardner engine built as long ago as 1909? It was a paraffin engine (I presume that is what the rest of the world calls kerosene) and not an oil engine, though.
LADS cab it has to be, unless anyone else got their hands on it?