Cheers for the article Dean 
Oily
Lorries on lowloaders, and one of them a one time bus/coach.
remy:
Congratulations on the milestone, lots of great pics on here.
Thank you remy Trucks on trucks US style.
Oily
Well done Oily 500 pages, Go for the four figures , The stuff you post is fantastic, Regards Larry.
Nice one Oily: 500 pages of nicely hosted interest! Cheers, Robert 
Lawrence Dunbar:
Well done Oily 500 pages, Go for the four figures , The stuff you post is fantastic, Regards Larry.
Thank you Larry, well you and I are both the same age so four digits might be stretching it in my time 
but we’ll give a go between all of us.
Cheers
Oily
ERF-NGC-European:
Nice one Oily: 500 pages of nicely hosted interest! Cheers, Robert
Thank you Robert this fine photo is in the public domain from Terry Hughes, so you’ll know exactly which of your ERF categories it belongs in.
Cheers
Oily
DEANB:
240 Gardner:
Frankydobo:
I would think the Omega was directed more at the Oil Industry for export to the Middle East in particular rather than an attempt to gain MoD orders for Tank Transporters, the build spec isn’t anything the MoD would require for that. Thornycroft also produced the Antar Sandmaster for the same type of work, only the cab resembled the Tank Transporter model the rest of the build was similar to the Omega, 21.00 x 25 Sand Tyres and with some being fitted with a huge 900 US gallon fuel tank behind the cab in an inverted U shape for long distance desert travel. Franky.Omega was built specifically to the order of Aramco, because currency restrictions meant that they were unable to buy any new American vehicles to replace their Kenworths. According to Atkinson’s own history, published in 1967, it was further currency restrictions that killed off the project after only seven were built.
I have an original period report of the testing carried out at Chobham in 1958 by Aramco engineers on Omegas 2 & 3 - by all accounts, the vehicle performed well.
Very intresting post Chris thanks for popping that on. Here is a bit more about the Omega.
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Thanks Dean 
oiltreader:
ERF-NGC-European:
Nice one Oily: 500 pages of nicely hosted interest! Cheers, RobertThank you Robert
Cheers
Oily
Superb job!
DEANB:
Fredm:
DEANB:
Diamond T.Wish my dad was still alive he would love this forum, especially this info on Diamond Ts as he drove these for 5 yrs in WW2 in north africa and italy he told me some funny stories of that time but nothing serious if you get my drift.
This may be of interest Fred / Oily.
Click on page twice to read.
TruckNetUK,Old Time Lorries,Past Present And In Between In Pictures. Pages 500-501. Thursday,10th May,2018. VALKYRIE
I always enjoy Pat Kennett’s lorry books and articles But he does make the occasional mistake in some of his writings,including his Looking Back
Diamond T 980-981 Ballasted Road Locomotive & Tractive Unit article: He says the Leyland-Albion 900-Series Railcar,Industrial & Automotive
Diesel-Oil Engine,QUOTE ‘never made the grade’,UNQUOTE, in road motor vehicles 
Wrong. A good number of these engines were fitted in certain Leyland,Albion and Scammell motor vehicles and were a success,including several Scammell Super Constructor 6x6 Heavy Haulage Ballast
Diesel Road Locomotives operated by Pickfords Heavy Haulage.
Pat mentions that the Diamond T 980-981 models had a hand throttle - Letter P and Figure No.16 in the photographs in the operators manual - which conjures up visions of the Scammell steering column-mounted lever-type hand throttle …but in a Diamond T 980-981 it’s just a dashboard-mounted pull-push control that looks like a 1930s-1950s Ford motorcar choke control! 
The British Army Diamond T 980-981 road locomotives and tractive units remained in service with the British military in the 1960s and 1970s,the last four were demobbed in 1975.
He mentions that not many Diamond T 980-981’s survive in original condition - but he wrote that in 1985,so since then a considerable number of these Diamond T’s have been restored as military road locomotives,whilst others have been restored as civilian heavy haulage road locomotives in the liveries of Pickfords,Wynns,etc…others have been restored as HRV’s - Heavy Recovery Vehicles,etc - I do wish some would be restored as Showmans Ballast Diesel Road Locomotives! Does anyone fancy restoring one in Tuby’s FunFairs or Thurston’s Amusements livery? 
Diamond T
#DiamondT
#Road #Locomotive
#RoadLocomotive
Road Locomotive.
Diamond T 980-981.Pat Kennett Looking Back Diamond T 980-981 article,Truck & Driver,December 1985.TruckNetUK OTL Past.Present And In Between In Pictures,pages 500,501.
Diamond T 980 6x4 Heavy Haulage Ballast Diesel Road Locomotive,Lowloader Drawbar Trailer Outfit,NDW 232,Newport,December 1956,Wynns Heavy Haulage,Newport,Wales,Fleet No.247.Corgi Scale Model.Pinterest.2
Diamond T 980 6x4 Showmans Ballast Diesel Road Locomotive,CCL 205,ALEXANDRA,Charles Thurston JOY Amusements,Hull Funfair.H & S Collection.TruckNetUK OTL Past.Present And In Between In Pictures,pages 500,501.1
NOTE: I have several Corgi diecast scale models of Diamond T 980-981 motor vehicles,including the following Thurston’s Diamond T 980 showmans
ballast diesel road locomotive Unfortunately,Corgi got the registration wrong ‘CCL 206’,the actual registration is CCL 205
Diamond T 980 6x4 Showmans Ballast Diesel Road Locomotive,CCL 205,ALEXANDRA.Thurstons.Corgi 55609 Diecast Model.3
VALKYRIE
Thanks to Buzzer and VALKYRIE for the pics also all the detail from VALKYRIE
another couple of Ts.
Oily
DEANB:
fredm:
DEANB:
Diamond T.wish my dad was still alive he would love this forum, especially this info on diamondTs as he drove these for 5 yrs in WW2 in north africa and italy he told me some funny stories of that time but nothing serious if you get my drift.
This may be of intrest Fred / Oily.
Click on page twice to read.
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Thanks Dean. Pat Kennet was one of my favourite article authors.
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Thanks to suefrank for the pics
Back on the milk round with William Wisely and Sons established as a Lmited Company around 1907, originally carters and in 1938 winning the Aberdeen Milk Board contract up until nationalisation in 1948,
The photos are scanned from an excellent wee book namely Memories published by Norman Wisely. No copyright claim appears on or in the publication (I have added a copyright mark to the photos), it is a family story, an interesting read, from horse and cart to lorries, nationalisation and wartime.
Oily
Some of the early wagons.
After nationalisation and in control again with a fleet of Seddons for the Aberdeen and District Milk Marketing Board.
Oily
An Austin of the Wisely fleet and a wartime requisition form. I can remember the gaberdines and hats coming round and “taking away” lorries.
Oily
19 July 1984
Taunton Somerset
Redbeard, a Volvo F12 operated by Smythes of Barnstaple.
The camera flash obliterated the reg No.
