The largest vehicle of its time! only two of these massive tractor unit with special semi-trailers were built by Scammel, making road transport history, of vehicles capable of moving loads of up to 100 tons.
These vehicles described as 'the World's largest lorry' had a 7 litre 80 bhp 4 cylinder petrol engine with an eight speed gearbox. The maximum road speed was 6 mph and 1 gallon of fuel wa consumed every mile. Later a 6 cylinder Gardner 112 bhp diesel engine was fitted and consumption improved to 4 m.p.g. The tractor unit itself weighed 13 tons. A jacking system was included for elevating the load carrying members and also for extracting the wheels should they break through the road surface.
An essential feature in this approximately 70th vehicle was a spring mounted steerman's platform behind th bogie wheels at the rear of the vehicle. It was often necessary to steer the rear bogies to negotiate corners and sharp bends. There was even telephonic communication between the driver and the rear steersman.
These Scammells carried many abnormal loads - locomotives, cranes, sttel girders, transformers, ship's engines, boilers and a 95 ton whale!
The load is a GER E4 2-4-0 locomotive weighing 40.3 tons capable of producing working pressure of 100 lbs/sq.ins. No.490 was in operation for Great Eastern Railways (GER) from 1895 and saw nearly 7 decades of service. Locomotives of this type could be seen on such varied duties as passenger trains, goods trains and special freaight excursions.
This locomotive also appeared in LNER and British Railway colours but is reproduced in its restored condition as it is preserved at Bressingham Steam Museum, Norfolk.
One of the two 100 tonner Scammells can still be seen at the Historic Commercial Vehicle Museum, Leyland, Lancashire, England.

The (YS-16) 1929 Scammell 100 Ton Low Loader joined the range in 1989. At 305mm (one foot) long it was the largest and most expensive Yesteryear model ever made. The Loco was only the 4th to appear in the range.

The tractor unit was in the livery of Pickfords with a blue body and red chassis. It had a white plastic roof and black plastic drive chains and a light brown interior, The wheels were red plastic with 4 wider tyres on the rear axle with two of the wheels being hidden under the chassis, It had lots of chrome to not only the grill & headlights but to the steering column and sidelights as well. It had white 'Pickfords' tampo to the sides along with white body lining to the engine covers.

Tractor Livery:
'PICKFORDS' in white on both cab sides. 'PICKFORDS' in white on blue panel, and 'BLH-21' in vehicle on blue board on header board.
Two white coachline squares on both bonnet sides.

The trailer was made from three parts, First is the gooseneck which attached to the tractor unit which was painted blue and had black plastic reel mounted on top, Next came the main body which was also blue, It had a pair of black plastic screw tensioners mounted up front to attach the gooseneck. Then came the rear bogie which was a mix of plastic and metal, This mounted the rear axles and wheels and the steersmans cab which had a white roof and '1679' tampo's on the sides.
Trailer Livery: (Tampo)
'1679' in white within white coachline square on both sides of steermans cab.

The load was a black E4 class locomotive of the Great Eastern Railway. It was mostly cast in metal with the exception of the black baseplate and the brown firebox detail inside the cab. The black paint was enhanced by red lining and gold trim to the buffers, handrail and controls fitted to the side of the engine.

Locomotive Livery:
'490' in gold on gold edge red plate on both sides of cab.
Dark red and gold coachlines to driving wheel arches.
Dark red coachlines to cab sides, boiler band, walkway sides and driving wheel flanges.
Gold trim to front leaf spring shackles, from axle box covers, flue box door hinges and central locking knob.

Variations/Rarities: The Scammell had 4 wheels on the rear axle. The two 'inners' were inside the chassis rails.
The trailer is hinged in 3 places just like the original.
The 'load' was a Great Eastern Railways class E4 loco.

There are no known variations.

It was packaged in a limited edition box and production was just over 32,000 pieces which pretty much sold out within weeks of its launch.

Scale: 1:64

1929 Scammell 100 Ton Low Loader

Box marked as a 'Special Edition'