The Scania-Vabis L20/L60/L71 was a series of heavy duty

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s produced by

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Scania-Vabis Scania AB ( , ), stylised SCANIA in its products, is a major Swedish manufacturer headquartered in Södertälje, focusing on commercial vehicles—specifically heavy lorries, trucks and buses. It also manufactures diesel engines for heavy veh ...

between 1946 and 1958.

Scania-Vabis L20

Scania-Vabis’ first post-war model, the L10 had been introduced already in 1944. Two years later came the larger L20, with a six-cylinder variant of the company's module engine which had been introduced in the late 1930s. The truck was also offered with a

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. This version was called the LS20, with an “S” for "support axle". The largest bogie vehicle had a payload capacity of 10.2

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Scania-Vabis L60

At the end of 1949, Scania-Vabis introduced a direct injected diesel development of their module engine. It had been designed in collaboration with British truck manufacturer

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/ref> With the new engine, the six-cylinder truck's name was changed to L60 and LS60 respectively. Otherwise the truck was mostly unchanged. In 1951 the old fashioned non-synchro four-speed

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was replaced by a synchronized five-speed transmission.

Scania-Vabis L71 Regent

In the spring of 1954, the final development of Scania-Vabis’ six-cylinder module engines was introduced, with larger displacement.Scania Group - history
The trucks were renamed L71/LS71 Regent and received air brakes. From the autumn of 1955, they could also be ordered with

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Engines

Gallery

File:Scania-Vabis LS23 Truck 1948.jpg, 1948 Scania-Vabis LS23 File:Scania-Vabis LS64 Truck 1950.jpg, 1950 Scania-Vabis LS64 File:Scania-Vabis LS71 Wrecker 1958.jpg, 1958 Scania-Vabis LS71

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References

External links

Scania Group - history

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