Brocky

The Osterman Diamond REO Giant built in Carlisle PA used a lot of them until they could not meet EPA emissions tests. There may still be a few scattered around central PA??

Doug Fetterley in Harrisville NY was making aluminum batter boxes.. No idea if he has the latches???

I think that is the way petroleum tankers are designed??? Take a look next time you see one..

I would also add a "come along" type winch from the bottom rear of the cab to a crossmember so you can go gently after it overcenters and not rely entirely on the hydraulic system.

Contact Mike Harbison SR either thru here or on Facebook.. He can answer your questions and supply what parts you might need..

About 1960 (+/-) our school bus contractor had a pusher school bus with a straight air clutch in it, with a foot valve identical to the brake pedal.. This was before spring lock parking brakes, just DO NOT park it in gear or you were going to run over something before you built up air enough to the release the clutch!!!!!!

The man I used to work for north of Allentown PA had a very similar 73 or 74, 290, 13 speed. It was the first new truck he ever bought. After he semi retired he re-powered it with a twin turbo 475, 15 speed. Then gave it a "Touch of Dutch" tune up so it was putting 650 to the ground on the Cummins Ashland PA dyno!!! I believe his sons still have the tractor after he passed several years ago.

No!! It is a 1956 Diamond T 950 with a different grille.. Hopefully the pictures below will blow up enough for you to read the printing??

Bob, You have to remember that when it is raining it is too wet to go out and fix it and when it is not raining it is not leaking!!

Great!!!!! I know you must be proud..

A very neat truck.. Where are you located??? That twin steer and spread drive axles look to be a Quebec Canada set up????

Was that the show they called SERTS, for South Eastern Regional Truck Show, in a city park on the east side of town, south of I-40?? They only had it one year, 2012, then went west to Harriman TN for 2013, then disappeared. If so here is a picture of it at that show.. He is usually parked with FM Satterfield's Emeryville as they are neighbors and run together.

He came up to our chapter tent at Brad Wike's show in Lincolnton and introduced himself. Mid to late 50's, about 5'10", 180 or so, brown hair with some grey.. I would probably recognize his face if I saw him again??

You are right!! Since supposedly both chapters have the same ATHS RVP, I have to assume venue availability may have been a factor.. Did you run into Double Clutching Weasel?? I did not see him at Cherokee and he lives about half way between the shows..

Check the rubber hose between the frame and the drive axle?????

I talked with Randall Howell, from Ball Park GA, last Saturday at the WNC show in Cherokee NC.. The B-75 pictured above is his!!! Originally with a Mack 711 engine. It is sitting on a Pete chassis with a Cummins 400 shoehorned in, or I should say the cab brought up around it!!! Yes, he widened the headlight panels and engine access panels on top of the fenders 2 inches to bring them out to the Pete width. He made a doghouse in the firewall rather than lengthening the hood to make it fit.. That is also a Superliner bunk he got from a friend in Greeley Colo. I Forgot to ask when he completed it but he said he had taken it to the ATHS national show in Spokane Wash which was in 2000(???), and a lot of other national shows since. He is 74 so God willing and his health remains good he will be at several more!! Probably not to the west coast again??

I have pictures of the Princess both at Alice and Tony's.. Lots of times I can put a face and a truck together and not able to put a name between them!!! I still want to thank all you Aussies who worked overtime to make our tour the success it was..

What 60's cars had turbos??????? Studebaker had a belt driven centrifugal blower..

Harry, I probably met you at Tony's!! BUT I met so many people on that trip it is hard to put faces and names together..

Thanks Tommy!!! I went to ATHS Western North Carolina in Cherokee NC. They had about 75 trucks. No pictures🤥!!

Harry, NO!!! The truck you are thinking about, the Mack Jr., was built with a REO cab. Tony Champion in Rockhampton QLD has 2 of them.. If you are anywhere near him, or going that way, put his collection on your bucket list of things to do!! The truck at the auction was a Diamond T model 201, a one ton pickup also available as a cab and chassis with a dual tire rear axle.. 7000 were built by DT from the middle of 1938 to the end of 1949. There are about a little over 400 left known to exist. Including A 1949 in my garage!! From 1950 thru 1952 about another 300 were built using the IH Compfovision cab. Then DT went out of the small truck business due to the competition from the Big Three. In 1958 White Motor bought REO and in 1959 bought Diamond T, thus ending the DT / IH relationship. In 1960 White Motor closed the Diamond T plant in Chicago ILL and moved all production to the REO plant in Lansing Mich using a mix and match of body parts. REO cabs for vocational work and Autocar Cabs for road work. They also built the White 2000 series and special order heavy duty Whites. Three identical trucks could come down the assembly line and go out the door as three different brands!!! On May 1st, 1967 White Motor officially combined REO and Diamond T and created the name Diamond REO.. Until White went bankrupt in the late 70's. The Osterman company of Carlisle PA USA bought the dies and rights to the name and continued to make the Diamond REO Giant into the 90's. Some using the air cooled Deutz engine. Another group then bought what was left of Osterman and are still building what they named the "T Line" trucks in Harrisburg PA.

The air inlet hose for the booster comes up into the cab behind the drivers seat.. Check that it is not plugged or crimped???

That ex-petroleum tank may hold 9100 gal. But I hope they DO NOT fill it up?? That would be over 70,000 pounds of water!!!!! Just a tad more than that old Mack on 5 axles could handle..

The ATHS Down Under Tour was the first and probably last organized tour, of 15 couples, my wife and I had ever taken. If you read the topic on Just Old Trucks I think you will agree at Stephanie did an excellent job of mixing regular tourist events with the many truck events. Part of the reason for the East Coast tour was to give Tony Champion time to get home from Alice Springs before we landed at his collection. She works part time for a large travel agency as well as her father, John Vanatta, being ATHS past president so she had plenty of connections for both sides of the tour. If I were to go back, especially as a single couple, I would do a lot of online research about what I wanted to see and do. Then throw it all in her lap to schedule the airlines, car rentals, intra AU flights, and train schedule, picking up my motels and restaurants as I went.

Check with Mike Harbison!!! Contact info in the member area..