Trucking Magazine – August 2019

CLASSIC TRUCK KELSALL RALLY 2019

PULLING POWER

78 TRUCKING August 2019 http://www.truckingmag.co.uk

T

aking a restored classic to

an event can be heavy on the

pocket money. All the more

so if the vehicle isn’t

road-registered and a

low-loader is required. Then there’s the

matter of accommodation where an

event is an all-weekend affair. Which is

why many collectors tend to limit

attendance to events close to home –

unless a gathering of the clans has

compelling pulling power.

Cheshire’s annual Kelsall Steam

and Vintage Rally has that by the

wagon load. Actually, make that a

thousand wagon loads. For that’s the

magnitude of last month’s spectacular.

Added to around a thousand load-

carrying vehicles were acres of steam

engines, tractors and farm machinery,

and classic and historic cars and

motorcycles. Purely in terms of

commercials – and a bigger contingent

of military vehicles than previous

Including an icon of British automotive engineering with a £1 million-plus price

tag, June’s Kelsall Rally was an even bigger gathering than ever

By Ed Burrows

PHOTOGRAPHY ED BURROWS

years – Kelsall is the serious road

vehicles equivalent of the media-lauded

Goodwood Festival of Speed.

Million dollar guest

We really are talking rare and revered.

And none more so than Maurice

Hudson’s Scammell Hundred Tonner.

There had been a whisper it might

appear, but there was nothing official.

Kelsall’s organisers, Geoff and Marie

Newsome, were pretty much in the dark.

The 1930 Scammell Hundred Tonner, at the time,

the heaviest lifter in the world. Could be yours,

but you’re likely to need at least £1 million