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SAMIL 50 recovery.

The SAMIL 50 recovery truck, the medium breakdown vehicle of the range, able to lift and tow a SAMIL 20.

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Sources & evidence
SAMIL 50 recovery — A SAMIL 50 recovery truck towing a SAMIL 20.Bob Adams from Amanzimtoti, South Africa · CC BY-SA 2.0 ↗
BASE VEHICLESAMIL 50 (1979–98)BUILT BYTruckmakers, Rosslyn, Pretoria, Magirus-Deutz, UlmOPERATED INSouth Africa, NamibiaPRODUCTIONNot publishedLAYOUT4 wheels · 193″

The record

Jane's listed the recovery truck among the SAMIL 50's versions in 1985. The heavier recovery work fell to the SAMIL 100 recovery truck, and both could be built with the mine-protected cab.

Research status: draft — identification, dates or figures could not all be pinned down; the summary says what is unresolved.

Specification

MANUFACTURERTruckmakers, Rosslyn, Pretoria ↗, Magirus-Deutz, Ulm ↗
under licence from Magirus-Deutz
MANUFACTUREDNot published
ENGINEDeutz F6L 413F air-cooled V6 diesel (Mk I); ADE 409N diesel (Mk II)Deutz F6L 413F · ADE 409N
PRODUCTION RUNNot published
COUNTRY OF ORIGINSouth Africa
OPERATED INSouth Africa, Namibia
STATUSout of production
RECORD KINDNamed model
MODEL LINE50
FAMILY50
WHEELS4
NOMINAL WHEELBASE193″
CATEGORYMilitary · South Africa

Catalogue fields describe the vehicle's structure and body as this registry records it. They are not certified factory measurements, and no performance figures are published here.

Variants & colours

Base model variants

Factory colours

  • Dark Earth

Codes on hover. Hex values are representative approximations of period paint unless a source states a measured value.

AI rendering impression

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Sources

  1. 1SAMIL 50 ↗Wikipedia · accessed 2026-09-24SOURCE
  2. 2SAMIL 50 – General utility truck ↗Military-Today.com (archived 2007) · accessed 2026-09-24SOURCE

Registry record updated 2026-09-24 · status: draft