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01-07-14, 13:58
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Wow! Those COE photos sure bring back memories!
Back in the 1950's the local Winnipeg Transit Company used to run a fleet of wreckers for their buses and the wreckers were all COE cab and chassis rigs (make unknown), with the same Holmes Wrecker Twin Boom bodies on them as the wartime Diamond T's used to run. As a kid, I was always fascinated by the look of the cabs and all the tools and kit stowed on the bodies. They were painted orange and banana cream. A local creamery around the same time (Crescent Creamery) also used to have a fleet of delivery trucks in Winnipeg for home delivery of dairy products, and they were all COE vehicles. I ran across several surviving rigs in the 1970's in a surplus yard north of Winnipeg, full of M38 jeep canvas. You could still read the Crescent Creamery logo on the sides of the bodies with their catch phrase: "You can whip our cream, but you can't beat our butter!". David Sorry for putting this mainline thread on a temporary siding. 
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