The Mechanical Horse was once a familiar site on Britain’s roads, especially around its railway stations. Although the vast majority were built by Scammell, a handful of other truck makers had a go too – like Karrier for instance. This advert for the Karrier Cob appeared in Motor Transport in the early 1940s.
According to the Mechanical Horse Club, just one Karrier Cob is known to survive, and that is currently residing at the National Railway Museum in York.