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This vehicle is not currently on display at the Museum
The Leyland 10 ton six wheel drive truck was one of a series of highly specialised ‘combat' trucks. These were developed from the late 1940s for Army use, incorporating a number of standardised components. They included a series of Rolls Royce designed petrol engines.
The Leyland was produced as a cargo truck, two sizes of artillery tractor and a heavy recovery vehicle. Its rear transmission layout was similar to that of the Scammell Explorer.
The recovery vehicle was intended to undertake front line recovery work and to complement the Scammell recovery vehicles already in service. These were hard pressed to recover some of the heavier trucks coming into service or being designed in the late 1950s. The Leylands appeared in service in the early 1960s and a handful survived to the mid 1990s, one of the last in Hong Kong.
This Leyland was the first British Army breakdown vehicle to incorporate a pedestal mounted rotating crane as its main lifting device. Similar cranes were already in use on US Army recovery vehicles and coming into use in France. The boom, when locked into its rear position, could take the weight of a vehicle on suspended tow but when freed could operate as a normal lifting crane to the rear or to either side of the vehicle.
Length |
8.89 m (29 ft 2 in) |
Width |
2.59 m (8 ft 6 in) |
Height |
3.10 m (10 ft 2 in) |
Wheelbase |
4.42 m (14 ft 6 in) |
Winch |
15 tonnes capacity |
Crane lift |
15 tons (max) |
Engine |
Rolls Royce B81 8 cylinder petrol |
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