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Diamonds are for ever
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THE 1936 Diamond-T longwheelbase three-tonner was so far ahead of its time in driver comfort and ease of maintenance that other vehicles are Only just'beginning to catch up with it. That at least is the opinion of Ray Horton, a Lower Gornal haulier whose speciality is the collection of rare lorries and particularly pre-war Americans.
He spent three and a half years on renovating a DiamondT which he bought from an owner-driver haulier in 1967. Another prized possession from the US is a 1 937 Reo Speedwagon.
Another haulier antiquarian is Tony Lloyd, of Ludlow, who cherishes a 1936 AEC Mammoth Major eight-wheeler, three Maudslays of 1946, 1948 and 1949;and a 1946 ERF.
Sid Unsworth, a Blackburn police inspector who retires this year, will have plenty to interest him in his 1938 Scammell tractor into which he put five years of blood and sweat.
Pat Oikle, transport manager of the Vernons organisation in Liverpool, also spent five years on restoring the 1931 Dennis single-deck bus that he drove in two episodes of the BBC television series, All Creatures Great and Small. Its original owner in Winchester would be proud if he could see it today.