page_title: Oliver Danson North
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caption_attribution_description: London, 1962. Finding this 35mm Kodachrome slide that I took with a Fujica during an October visit to London triggers memory of being interested in the small tractor and the large trailer. I note from the photo that it was parked at St. Pauls Corner and St. Pauls Churchyard. Truck is a Scammell Scarab marked "British Railways". In the background is a shop with window signs reading "High Class Shoe Repairs" "One Day Service" "Long Sole Work a Specialty" "While You Wait". The front of trailer trailer reads "H Depend on Harwich Hook route", advertising the "Sealink" British Rail ferries route from Harwich, Essex to The Hook, Netherlands.
context_page_description: Oliver Danson North was a British engineer and automobile designer in the early twentieth century, working for Scammell Lorries from 1922. He was responsible, most notably, for the Scammell Pioneer, a three-axle heavy truck, and the three-wheeled Scammell Mechanical Horse, which subsequently evolved into the Scammell Scarab, a familiar sight in cities and towns often engaged in postal and parcel deliveries. He was also heavily involved in Scammell's design and manufacture of the two '100 Tonners' low-loader vehicles, delivered in early 1930 to Marston Road Services in Liverpool and H.E. Coley in Dartford, Kent. The vehicle delivered to Marston Road Services, known as KD 9168, was used for the delivery of steam locomotives from the manufacturers to Liverpool docks.
context_section_description: Oliver Danson North (1887, Willesden Green — 11 November 1968, Haslemere) was a British engineer and automobile designer in the early twentieth century, working for Scammell Lorries from 1922. He was responsible, most notably, for the Scammell Pioneer, a three-axle heavy truck, and the three-wheeled Scammell Mechanical Horse, which subsequently evolved into the Scammell Scarab, a familiar sight in cities and towns often engaged in postal and parcel deliveries. He was also heavily involved in Scammell's design and manufacture of the two '100 Tonners' low-loader vehicles, delivered in early 1930 to Marston Road Services in Liverpool and H.E. Coley in Dartford, Kent. The vehicle delivered to Marston Road Services, known as KD 9168, was used for the delivery of steam locomotives from the manufacturers to Liverpool docks.
caption: Scammell Scarab in British Railways livery, London, 1962
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