Scammell Tapestries

Scammell Lorries Limited was a British manufacturer of trucks, particularly specialist and military off-highway vehicles, between 1921 and 1988. Scammell started as a late-Victorian period wheelwright and coach-building business, G Scammell & Nephew Ltd in Spitalfields, London. An S24 Tank Transporter is Jill's vehicle in the Terry Gilliam film Brazil. Jill's truck is a Scammell Commander.

Logo badge on a Scammell Mechanical Horse, a 1930s tractor unit used for hauling detachable articulated trailers, often for railways

Classic 1970s Scammell Routeman lorry minimalist outline line drawing (also available in black)

Scammell S24 classic 1970s-1980s heavy duty lorry outline line drawing (also available in black)

Scammell S26 classic 1980s British heavy duty lorry outline line drawing (also available in white)

Scammell S24 classic 1970s-1980s heavy duty lorry outline line drawing (also available in white)

Scammell S26 classic 1980s British heavy duty lorry outline line drawing (also available in black)

Classic 1970s Scammell Routeman lorry minimalist outline line drawing (also available in white)

Scammell Lorries Limited was a British manufacturer of trucks, particularly specialist and military off-highway vehicles, between 1921 and 1988. Scammell started as a late-Victorian period wheelwright and coach-building business, G Scammell & Nephew Ltd in Spitalfields, London. An S24 Tank Transporter is Jill's vehicle in the Terry Gilliam film Brazil. Jill's truck is a Scammell Commander.

Scammell Crusader classic heavy truck minimalist outline line drawing (also available in black)

Scammell Crusader classic heavy truck minimalist outline line drawing (also available in white)

Classic 1970s Scammell Routeman lorry minimalist outline line drawing (also available in black and without mirrors)

Classic 1970s Scammell Routeman lorry minimalist outline line drawing (also available in white and without mirrors)

Scammell Lorries Limited was a British manufacturer of trucks, particularly specialist and military off-highway vehicles, between 1921 and 1988. Scammell started as a late-Victorian period wheelwright and coach-building business, G Scammell & Nephew Ltd in Spitalfields, London. An S24 Tank Transporter is Jill's vehicle in the Terry Gilliam film Brazil. Jill's truck is a Scammell Commander.

In a dystopian, polluted, over consumerist, hyper-bureaucratic alternative present day, Sam Lowry is a low-level government employee who frequently daydreams of himself as a winged warrior saving a damsel in distress. One day shortly before Christmas a fly becomes jammed in a teleprinter, misprinting a copy of an arrest warrant it was receiving resulting in the arrest and accidental death during interrogation of cobbler Archibald Buttle instead of renegade heating engineer and suspected terrorist Archibald Tuttle because Buttle's heart condition didn't appear on Tuttle's medical files that were provided to Information Retrieval.

GDSF 2015 - 1957 Scammell Number of views as of 10th June 2019 = 670. Another exhibit at the 2015 Great Dorset Steam Fair (GDSF), at Tarrant Hinton, near Blandford, Dorset. This 6x4 1957 Scammell Junior Constructor, in the livery of Wimpey Construction Ltd won 'best in show' in 2013 in the Diesel Heavy Haulage category. Date: 5th September 2015. Click here to view my Commercial Vehicles collection.

The film centres on Sam Lowry, a low ranking bureaucrat trying to find a woman who appears in his dreams while he is working in a mind-numbing job and living in a small apartment, set in a dystopian world in which there is an over-reliance on poorly maintained (and rather whimsical) machines. Brazil's satire of bureaucratic, technocratic, terrorism, and an hyper-surveillance, state capitalist like totalitarian government is reminiscent of George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four and has been called Kafkaesque and absurdist.

Classic 1960s Scammell Highwayman lorry minimalist outline line drawing (also available in white)

Classic 1960s Scammell Highwayman lorry minimalist outline line drawing (also available in black)