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1940s Diamond T dealership in Oregon. The Diamond T Motor Car Company was founded in Chicago in 1905 by C. A. Tilt. Reportedly, the company name was created when Tilt’s shoe-making father fashioned a logo featuring a big “T” (for Tilt) framed by a diamond, which signified high quality. [1]
Diamond Reo Trucks was an American truck manufacturer. In 1967, Diamond T and Reo Trucks were combined to form the Diamond Reo Trucks Division of the White Motor Corporation. Reo dated back to 1904 when Ransom E. Olds, founder of Oldsmobile, began building motor cars, and Diamond T dated back to 1905 when C. A. Tilt began building vehicles.
The Diamond Ranch was established near Chugwater, Wyoming in 1878 by George Rainsford, a New York native who came west to breed horses. Rainsford, an architect, designed many of the structures at the ranch. Horses bred at the ranch, mainly Morgans and Clydesdales, were widely known and sought after. The ranch was named after Rainsford's Diamond ...
May 22—CHEYENNE — Wyoming Horse Racing LLC is nearing the grand opening of the state's largest off-track horse race betting facility in Laramie County in less than one month. The 30,000-square ...
"Truck, Diamond, 4-ton, 6×6 with winch cargo" In 1939-1941 the Army Ordnance Corps was developing a complete line of tactical trucks that could operate over all roads and cross-country terrain in all weather. 4-ton (3,600 kg) load rated six-wheel drive trucks had been successful towing artillery in the 1930s, and the size would be standardized to tow the Field Artillery Branch's new 155 mm ...
CHEYENNE — Wyoming Horse Racing hosted community members and elected officials Friday for a ribbon-cutting ceremony to open the new $25 million Horse Palace at Swan Ranch. Though there’s no ...
The result was the Diamond T 980, a 12-short-ton (11 t) hard-cab 6×4 truck. Powered by a Hercules DFXE diesel engine developing 201 hp (150 kW ) and geared very low, it could pull a trailer of up to 115,000 lb (52 t) and proved capable of the task of moving the heaviest tanks then in service.
The Texaco Doodlebug (also called the Diamond T Doodlebug) was a futuristic American tanker truck of the 1930s. The vehicles were streamlined and highly aerodynamic. [ 1 ] The overall shape, a flattened half-cylinder rounded at the front and tapered at the end, has been described as a "pill" [ 1 ] or "breadloaf". [ 2 ]