Solved - NEH 1479: Walt Hansgen's Jaguar-powered wrecker

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Carnut

January 13, 2012, 06:11:14 AM
What is this, what powers it and who built it? - For 1 point:

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Carnut

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January 20, 2012, 04:18:41 AM
Experts?
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Carnut

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February 03, 2012, 05:47:25 AM
Pro's?
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Wendax

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February 03, 2012, 05:53:36 AM
American?

Carnut

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February 03, 2012, 07:39:42 AM
Quote from: Wendax on February 03, 2012, 05:53:36 AM
American?

Built in the US, but not all its parts are from there..
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pguillem

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February 03, 2012, 01:12:19 PM
Is it a Diamond T from the early 50's ?

Wendax

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February 03, 2012, 01:20:11 PM
The cab rather looks like it's from an International  ???

pguillem

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February 03, 2012, 02:33:48 PM
Diamond T was always noted for mid-size trucks, not just big highway tractors. In the days when they had their own cabs, they had a very distinctive and stylish full fendered conventional truck, with a low roof. It was favoured by soft drink, beer and meat delivery companies. When it became outmoded, Diamond T got new cabs from International. (Or from the same supplier as International. FWD got cabs there too as did several others such as Canada Diesel.)


Diamond T never had a tilt cab of their own, and their post war cab-forward model was too dated, and lacked the convenience of the tilt feature, introduced (in mass production) by the White 3000. In 1953 Diamond T began to use the "Fort Wayne" tilt cab, in order to maintain market share in that area.

Carnut

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February 03, 2012, 06:20:18 PM
I don't actually know what the cab was from.
But the answer I'm looking for is more detailed than just the cab's origins.
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pguillem

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February 03, 2012, 07:54:14 PM Last Edit: February 03, 2012, 08:20:30 PM by pguillem
Model 422 ?

Oh boy ! Walt Hansgen's Jaguar-Ford-Diamond T, an M6 bomb service truck, with an L-shaped steel boom, built on a four-wheel-drive Ford cabover chassis and powered by a 226-cu.in. L-head straight-six, with a Gar Wood frontal winch. The trucks were designed to hoist ordnance at World War II depots. Hansgen gussied it up in the livery of the family garage, then in Westfield, New Jersey, applying pretty gold-leaf lettering.

Carnut

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February 04, 2012, 02:06:21 PM Last Edit: February 06, 2012, 05:27:32 AM by Carnut
Well done!
But the original 226 cu in straight six engine was replaced by a 3.8 litre Jaguar XK engine when the truck was reubilt in the earlly sixties, hence the 'Jaguar' in the name..
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