Scammell Pioneer
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The Scammell Pioneer was a British 6×4 tractor unit used in World War II as an artillery tractor, recovery vehicle and tank transporter.
A British Army Scammell Pioneer towing an 8-inch howitzer of 1st Heavy Regiment, near Calais (12 January 1940)
The prototype tank transporter of 1929, H 22509, loading a Medium Mark II
Pioneer artillery tractors in the London Victory Parade, June 1946
Pioneer recovering a Universal Carrier, Sussex 1941
M19 tank transporter
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The M19 tank transporter was a heavy tank transporter system used in World War II and into the 1950s. It consisted of a 12-ton 6×4 M20 Diamond T model 980 truck and companion 12-wheel M9 trailer.
Scammell Pioneer
…tractor/trailer combinations proved too tall to carry higher profile US tanks under some British bridges, resulting in their being superseded by the American Diamond T tank transporter from 1941 on. Despite this, it remained in production throughout the war, with 459 being produced. As a result of their tall profile the trailers proved…
M19 tank transporter system (M20 truck and M9 trailer) carrying a Grant tank
Diamond T tank transporter with a Churchill tank during preparations for crossing the Rhine
Diamond T tank transporters of the British Army with a load of a Grant ARV, followed by one with a Grant gun tank, in Burma, 1945.
Diamond T M20 ballast tractor used by the Dutch Army