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  SCARAB ISLAND

As this month is a bit 'lean' of model beer truck news it was decided to use this space to share with fellow enthusiasts a 51 year-old article about specialised beer trucks on a Mediterranean isle.

The January 1958 edition of the LEYLAND JOURNAL (the 'house' magazine of the Leyland Group) contained an article about the use of the manoeuvrable Scammell Scarab mechanical horse vehicle on the island of Malta.

Part of the article concerns the use of the Scarab with the Milk Marketing Undertaking however the majority of the article concerns the Scarabs operated by the Maltese brewer, Simonds-Farsons-Cisk Ltd.  The article contains some interesting photographs of these small vehicles in-use in the narrow streets of the capital, Valetta.

The article is produced in .pdf format and will require Adobe Acrobat reader to view it. BEWARE!  The file size of the document is 1.1Mb and, consequently, downloading may be slow (depending on the speed of your internet connection).  Click here to view the article.

 

 

 

 

 

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