Marques
SAMIL — South African Military — trucks are Magirus-Deutz designs built in South Africa under the arms embargo: the two-ton SAMIL 20 and five-ton SAMIL 50 4×4s and the ten-ton SAMIL 100 6×6, built by Truckmakers at Rosslyn, Pretoria, until 1998. The first had air-cooled Deutz diesels, the Mk IIs locally made engines, and most versions could take the Kwêvoël mine-protected cab. The fleet peaked at about 12,000 trucks.
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All 3 SAMIL marques by years in production, 1948 → today
The two-ton forward-control 4×4 of the South African Defence Force, a licence version of the Magirus-Deutz 130 M 7 FAL with portal axles, built from 1978 until 1998 — first with the air-cooled Deutz F6L 913, then as the Mk II with the water-cooled ADE 352N.
The five-ton 4×4 of the range, a strengthened South African version of the Magirus-Deutz 192 D 12 AL, built from 1979 until 1998 with the air-cooled Deutz F6L 413F V6 and later the ADE 409N — the truck, with the SAMIL 100, that replaced the Army's Bedfords during the Border War.
The ten-ton 6×6 of the range, the Magirus-Deutz 320 D 22 AL built in South Africa from 1983 until 1998 with the air-cooled Deutz F10L 413F V10: the Defence Force's standard heavy truck, the G5 gun tractor, and the chassis of the Bateleur and the Bosvark.
