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.
