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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[]

Marshall Gainsborough loading shovel - ex MOD - IMG 4985

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 winch on front of Marshall Gainsborough - IMG 4981

Boughton Front winch

Winch on Marshall Gainsborough loading shovel - IMG 4984

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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