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The Marshall Gainsborough Loading Shovel or Gainsborough Medium-wheeled Earth-moving Tractor was built for the British 'Ministry of Defence' (M.O.D.) in 1958 by Marshall, Sons & Co. of Gainsborough, in Lincolnshire, England. It was originally designed by the Daimler Specialist Vehicle Company to an MOD spec for the Royal Engineers. Daimler SV built military vehicle such as scout cars.
Model history[]
A Mark 2 Gainsborough shovel in preservation
Two prototypes were built that differed with no.1 being a bulldozer and no.2 a wheel loader, both being cable controlled NOT hydraulic. They had Boughton winches at the front and Vickers-Onions cable control units to operate a towed scraper box.
The Mark 1 pre-production models for evaluation were hard to operate with the cable control system.
Marshalls then designed a modified mark 2 version with hydraulic control system and power steering.
They had a 6-cylinder Leyland AUE 680/120 diesel engine of 145 hp. 10-speed epicyclic gear box and Boughton winch.
Production numbers were low with only 150 being built.
Preserved examples[]
Boughton Front winch
Vickers-Onions CCU
A few examples are with collectors or in museum collections;
- Reg no? - Shown in photo above - part of the Andrew Beaulah collection of classic plant.
- NNS 59N - shown in book about Marshall
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