trado/walking beam/boomerang

[nuyt]

Hey Hanno, thanks for the Scammell lesson!

No, I am not really comparing the two armoured cars, just showing two walking beam type 6x6 armoured cars.

I bet the Engesa engineers had never heard of the DAF M39 when they were looking for a way to renew Brazil's fleet of M8 Greyhounds.

That vehicle was their main example of course and the earlier types of Cacavel (with 37mm gun turret) clearly shows the striking resemblance.

But not for the rear bogies. Engesa made good use of their "invention" around that period of the Boomerang system, of which Vanderveen said it was Trado inspired.

The Trado in turn may have been inspired by the Scammell system?

I know DAF sold the Trado design to Delahay of France, but I do not know if these made any use of it.

After the war Spanish military truck series were patterned on the contemporary DAF series.

Cheers,
Nuyt