Several of the major suppliers of oil exploration vehicles such as Kenworth, Scammell and Willème have been covered in past episodes, but one has so far evaded us.
This is the Belgian firm of MOL, started by Gerard Mol in 1944 and initially involved with farm trailers and then, from 1952, road haulage trailers. In 1966 complete DAF and Deutz powered lorries were added for special purposes like dock spotting, cranes and concrete delivery. Their Deutz air cooled diesels suited the extremes of temperature encountered in the oilfields and during the 1970s this became big business for MOL. There were five and ten tonne gross 4x4s and 6x6 for up to 26tonnes. Many were sold through a London based oilfield supplier called Incotes run by John Ward, who had previously been behind Vickers AWD specialist vehicles created in 1962 when Vickers
