上世纪20年代后期，英国伦敦与东北铁路公司计划寻找一种新的交通工具，用来满足向小城镇运输包裹的任务，当时不少偏远的小城镇还采用马车作为主要交通工具，这自然跟不上时代。到了30年代初期， Napier汽车公司为伦敦与东北铁路公司提出了一个解决方案，即研发一种可以替代马匹的牵引车头，它可以直接牵引常规马车，不过Napier公司并不想负担这个项目，而是把项目转手给了 Scammell卡车公司，后者研制了 ...

This Scammell Highwayman was a powerful large capacity electric generator for powering fairground amusements such as the rides stalls and sideshows. It was named Illustrious like all similar ...

Robert Scammell is a senior editor for the tech, startup, and VC team at Business Insider's London bureau, overseeing the team's coverage of companies such as Meta, OpenAI, and Nvidia.