Showing posts with label Fuel Tanker. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Fuel Tanker. Show all posts
Friday, October 31, 2025
Sunday, September 21, 2025
Thursday, August 28, 2025
it's been 14 years since the last time I came across any photos of this '37 Reo Speed Tanker
The futuristic Australian body design was built by Martin and King Coachbuilders on top of a REO Speedwagon Model 2LM forward control bus chassis’ designed to improve fuel efficiency and was introduced by the Vacuum Oil Company in 1937, by an unknown Melbourne artist's concept art.
The capacity of the four internal tanks was 1075 Imperial gallons, and the tire size was 7.50 x 20. Enough of the trucks were built to be assigned to each of the seven Capitol Cities in Australia (probably for the units advertising value).
The discharge hoses were stored in the chrome tubes that started at the rear of the headlights and followed the catwalk on each side of the body.
The truck appeared at the Coronation International Motor Show. A
The truck appeared at the Coronation International Motor Show. A
piece in the May 25th, 1937 The Argus, of Melbourne, had the following sentence. “On the Reo stand is the most extraordinary vehicle in the show — a fully streamlined tanker which looks as if it is several years ahead of its time.”
Saturday, July 06, 2024
Thursday, July 04, 2024
Saturday, June 22, 2024
Sunday, February 25, 2024
Friday, September 08, 2023
Thursday, April 27, 2023
plans are in motion in New Zealand to scratch build a Texaco Doodlebug, Steve and Sue Keys who just finished the restoration of the Diamond T Texaco fuel tanker, learned a lot about the Doodlebug, and well, it's time for a new project!
They've found another Diamond T 614 chassis and a Hercules Diamond T six-cylinder engine of unknown size along with front and rear axles, 10-bolt Budd wheels, a transfer case, and other smaller components including side vents and instruments.
The plan is to have Simon Tippins and Craig Garland of Creative Metal Works scratchbuild the body, they were the crew that did the bodywork on the Texaco fuel tanker
Friday, April 07, 2023
New Zealanders Steve and Sue Keys have spent the last five years in a spectacular resurrection of what may be the last Texaco Diamond T Fuel Truck
Texaco, Standard Oil and Socony had their own small fleets of Dodge Airflow trucks
But not all Texaco trucks were Dodge Airflows. Mack and International chassis reportedly served as the basis for other Texaco tankers of the Thirties, as did Diamond T.
Detroit-based Garwood Industries, Kansas City-based Standard Steel Works and Milwaukee-based Heil Co. all built trucks for the Texaco fleet - and each built the tankers slightly different, making the restoration of the Diamond T anything but straightforward.
It originally was a fuel truck in South Carolina, where the Texaco distributor used it for local fuel deliveries before eventually selling the truck to an adjacent lumber mill.
The lumber mill then used it as a water tank truck in its yard until 1980, when the lumber mill closed and a salvage yard bought it.
The operator of that salvage yard then stored it at a friend's place and had to buy it back from that friend's estate before offering it for sale on eBay in 2010.
A couple owners, one cross-country trip, and a trans-Pacific boat ride later, it ended up in New Zealand
With everything coming together in the fall of 2022, the Keys scheduled the Diamond T's debut for the Ellerslie Concours d'Elegance in February 2023. Unfortunately, Cyclone Gabrielle hit New Zealand's North Island that same weekend, leading the concours to be postponed. While they still plan to present the Diamond T at the concours, they've since privately unveiled the completed truck and have arranged to place it in the Classics Museum in Hamilton, New Zealand, until the concours's new date in late April.
Wednesday, February 01, 2023
Monday, January 16, 2023
a photo of the 1934 Mack Gilmore Neon sign fuel truck I haven't seen before
I posted a couple other photos of it at http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2011/07/gilmores-1934-traveling-neon-sign-fuel.html
Sunday, January 01, 2023
Monday, December 26, 2022
Tuesday, November 29, 2022
a few interesting things coming to auction from the inevitable liquidation of the Oldham collection in Arizona
1943 White bomb loader COE
1961 Fiat 600
1964 Ford former Chevron airport fuel truck
1970 Mach 1
and this 1972 GMC
Oldham was involved in seven dealerships throughout his career, collected about 900 cars and is auctioning about 100 of the less interesting, less desirable, and certainly not the high demand extremely valuable ones.
Spanning across 37 Acres of Arizona desert, with warehouses that house cars, trucks, 4x4’s and other specialty vehicles that were used to rent to movie studios for use ion films
Spanning across 37 Acres of Arizona desert, with warehouses that house cars, trucks, 4x4’s and other specialty vehicles that were used to rent to movie studios for use ion films
Monday, August 01, 2022
Sunday, May 08, 2022
Saturday, April 09, 2022
great old fuel tankers
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that old Shell logo is really cool, but the Standard RWB and torch was a logo I liked a lot as a kid.
W.H. Riley & Son has been delivering fuels to southeastern Massachusetts since 1873 since Ulysses S. Grant was in the White House
https://www.barrett-jackson.com/Events/Event/Details/1928-FORD-MODEL-AA-FUEL-TANKER-TRUCK-178029https://classiccars.com/listings/view/914610/1931-ford-model-aa-tanker-truck-for-sale-in-st-louis-missouri-63028
https://www.mecum.com/lots/SC0521-461885/1931-ford-model-aa-tanker-truck/
https://www.whriley.com/about/https://www.hemmings.com/stories/article/prewar-petrol-peddler-1930-ford-model-aa#&gid=1&pid=1
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