The Dark Story Behind the Diamond T 980 - The Most Capable Truck Ever Built That Nobody Remembers

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  @CameronMcCreary-u9e · 3 months ago

  I remember the Diamond T company. They made excellent trucks. My Grandfather owned a farm in Upstate New York in WWII and he owned a couple of Diamond T trucks. ❤

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  @johnjordan4647 · 3 months ago

  Kurt Johnnsen who pioneered cattle transport by road train used two Diamond T’s to tow three self tracking trailers behind each truck in the Australian outback

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  @Joshua-o6g9b · 5 months ago

  I've known about the 980 and 981 since I was a kid and I'm 46 and live in America. The reason you never see them here is because there may be only a handful in the U.S. We left them all in Europe mainly England. Awesome truck

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  @jonathangriffin1120 · 3 months ago

  When I was a young'un, I had a 'Dinky Toys' Mighty Antar tank transporter. Another company, Lesney, made a tank transporter as part of their 'Matchbox' line-up. The Matchbox tractor unit didn't have the make cast into the bottom but from memory I can see it was a Diamond T.

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  @domenicknegri9605 · 3 months ago

  1957 ,I took a break in my Air Force career as a Jet Mechanic . My first civilian job, I went to work for my Uncle , who preferred Mack trucks . He had purchased two Diamond T surplus trucks . He mounted Concrete Mixers on the trucks, but the top speed was 25 MPH. Too slow even by New York city standards . He had new differential gears made that raised the speed .<br>The Drivers who drove them raved about their power . They said when a Mack got stock the Diamond T would push them out of the mud .<br>I was 25 at the time and worked as a mechanic , I lasted 3 months and went back into the USAF and worked on Jets . This was a great story, I love this U Tube channel . Being a very old gear head, I watch it every day and so do my friends .

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  @research903 · 3 months ago

  My uncle drove a Diamond T in the East Texas oil fields of the 1940s. Only thing that could move some of the drilling platforms...

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  @robertparker3760 · 5 months ago

  Had one as a water cart in the Harbor Lights gold mine Western Australia,,

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  @Alan-t7z8c · 3 months ago

  Remember Diaamond T as a Concrete Mixer trucks in Sk Cdn. Maybe old military trucks.

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  @washingtondcxx · 3 months ago

  As a young &apos;un &nbsp;growing up during WWII in England I was quite familiar with the Diamond T heavy hauler. To a young kid over there it was an impressive piece of kit. Of course, in those days anything military was an impressive piece of kit.

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  @geoffcrumblin9850 · 3 months ago

  Better that you research the Scammell. Much more versatile with a longer life.

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  @denisecanaday5677 · 4 months ago

  Why, in a story about the WW2 Diamond T, does your video show modern scenes ?

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  @bobbickley9009 · 5 months ago

  Always my favorite truck...

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