pyewacket947v:
7 May 1985
Seen on duty during the widening of the M5/J5
A rather neat looking Diamond T recovery truck
A38,Wychbold, Worcs, Eng
Nice pic, i wonder if that was saved or ended up scrapped.
Diamond T 1985.
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My first job was at BRS Team Valley in the workshop (1970-72) Just before I started they had acquired a Diamond T wrecker and it was the workshop managers’ ( “Big” Jim Alderson) pride and joy.
IIRC it was fitted with TFL lifting gear and had the Hercules engine. I drove it around the yard once or twice down to the fuel pumps to fill up etc.
Bit of a beast and it would it pull a block a flats down but I think the max speed was about 25MPH so took forever to get anywhere.
I have quite an amusing anecdote about a guy with a Land Rover trying to tow it !!!
Tyneside
Put the story on then Tyneside, and check your private messages chap !
Hi Dean. Not sure if there is a technical hitch, PM,s are showing as zero, I have+now seen your message but had to log in and out three times before I could open it. I will get back to you tomorrow when I have a bit more time. Tyneside
A busy road junction near the Pier Head in Liverpool in the mid 1950s. The tram is on route 14
to Utting Avenue. The car on The Strand looks like an Austin Devon. The Corporation bus at the
bottom of James Street is an AEC Regent 111 from 1953, with bodywork by Crossley. I think that
the lorry is an Albion, not quite sure. The car on the right is a Jaguar, and the electric train on
the Liverpool Overhead Railway is heading to the left to Seaforth.
Picture from Bootle History Forum.
Ray Smyth:
Dean, The car is a Jaguar. Cheers, Ray.
My Dad had one of those, late 50s I suppose. A wheel fell off in Stockport and he had to go into the butcher’s shop to fetch it back and tighten it this time with some heavy hammer blows to the single centre wing nut.
The P100 (i think?) headlamps on the Jaguar were used by many manufacturers, I remember in the sixties when the BMC dealership I was apprenticed at had a stocktake and about a dozen of those still in boxes were dumped to make room for Marina parts. All the Nuffield tractor spares went the same way as well. I managed to save some cylinder heads for the sidevalve Morris Oxfords and J Type van, they were still in wax and many years later after moving to Derbyshire I gave them to the owners club.
It is an SS(Swallow Sidecars) model given the name Jaguar by one of its founders William Lyons in 1935, the SS was dropped in 1945 and the rest well…success. Swallow Sidecars were originally coach builders specialising in motorbike sidecars. automobile.fandom.com/wiki/SS_J … _3.5_Litre
Picture of Sports version radiator.
Oily
Thanks to Buzzer, coomsey, Ray Smyth, DEANB, and pyewacket947v for the pics and all the on going craic
Oily
At Matlock Bath, all credit to scp for the photo.
windrush:
The P100 (i think?) headlamps on the Jaguar were used by many manufacturers, I remember in the sixties when the BMC dealership I was apprenticed at had a stocktake and about a dozen of those still in boxes were dumped to make room for Marina parts. All the Nuffield tractor spares went the same way as well. I managed to save some cylinder heads for the sidevalve Morris Oxfords and J Type van, they were still in wax and many years later after moving to Derbyshire I gave them to the owners club.
oiltreader:
It is an SS(Swallow Sidecars) model given the name Jaguar by one of its founders William Lyons in 1935, the SS was dropped in 1945 and the rest well…success. Swallow Sidecars were originally coach builders specialising in motorbike sidecars.
Oily
I wonder why they dropped the SS in 1945…Hmmm. No prizes for guessing that.
Incidentally, I thought my Dad’s Jag in the late 50s was an SS. Certainly that is when I was first aware of the name. Perhaps it was a really old car, he didn’t have much money in those days, in fact only had a car at all because my Mum’s Dad left the family his Austin 12 in his will.
oiltreader:
Thanks to Buzzer, coomsey, Ray Smyth, DEANB, and pyewacket947v for the pics and all the on going craic
Oily
At home in Matlock, all credit to scp for the photo.
Matlock Bath actually Oily but I will let you off! Not sure native Matlock folk will though, they don’t like being associated with ‘The Bath’ as that is a seperate place entirely. There are some great colour pics that have been posted recently on Facebook of their fleet back in the sixties with various Bedford models and the then new LAD cabbed Dodge’s which some folk I know drove.
windrush:
The P100 (i think?) headlamps on the Jaguar were used by many manufacturers, I remember in the sixties when the BMC dealership I was apprenticed at had a stocktake and about a dozen of those still in boxes were dumped to make room for Marina parts. All the Nuffield tractor spares went the same way as well. I managed to save some cylinder heads for the sidevalve Morris Oxfords and J Type van, they were still in wax and many years later after moving to Derbyshire I gave them to the owners club.
Pete.
Should have saved them Pete , spares for an S83 ?
Hopefully at 100 mph they were a lot better than those Foden 11" headlamps Dave, they would have been ideal in the Blackout though!
