In the background

[Richard Farrant]

Originally Posted by motto

You're right Richard, Kurt would have to be the most likely suspect as owner/operator. There is a second Diamond T further back alongside of its trailers waiting for the first one to move out.
Most of those drums must have been empty. There would have been some interesting ones among them.

David

Hi David,
That scene is typical of photos of his trucks in his book, A Son of the Red Centre. I seem to recollect he had the contract to collect the drums from military bases etc and bring them South. He designed the self tracking trailers too, using axles from military trailers (Carrier trailers I think).
This reminds me to read the book again.

cheers Richard

[motto]

There is one of Kurt's Diamond Ts with two of his trailers hitched up to it on display at the Road Transport Hall of Fame near Alice Springs.
The truck is named Bertha and had been modified by Kurt with a lengthened chassis and from memory a GM 6-71 diesel in place of the original Hercules DFXE.
It's an impressive rig even by todays standards and is in its rightful place as a part of Australian history.

David

[lynx42]

Here is Kurts Diamond T in the parade in Alice Springs in 2010.

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The trailers were at the Road Transport Hall of Fame. Check out the hubs.
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Regards Rick.

[Richard Farrant]

I remember my first visit to Alice in 1992, we had a lay over during the Variety Bash and heard of a railway museum, went over there and I was more interested in the derelict trucks laying around, the two Diamond T's and trailers, a Bedford OL and a real rarity, the Rotinoff Viscount. This was 3 years before the truck museum, never thought at the time that I would be back so soon, when we were present for the opening of the Transport Hall of Fame in '95. All these trucks except the Bedford now in the museum.

[Bill Murray]

Hi all:

This thread is getting pretty large, so this may have been posted earlier, but.........

A CMP in Norway in the background. I believe it was used by the SAS or some such infiltration organization sometime in the war. There was no useful caption on the photo.

Bill

[Bill Murray]

Another shot, this one for certain postwar.
Norway ca 1955.
Bill

[Bill Murray]

One more from Norway.
Seems they kept CMP's in service for quite a long time.
Bill