A view of the Past, Vintage Photos

[QUOTE="semi" retired;4482879]Hi OHB, the series 500 "bull-nose" KW was made until 1956. Interestingly, I read, the cab did not tilt, and service was done from below, or removing the dog house inside. Bet THAT was fun. I just love old trucks, obviously, however, actually putting any time in one, could be a whole 'nother story.[/QUOTE] "SEMI" More on the "non tilting cab". The bullnose & bubblenose freightliners & petes of the early 50s were all non tilting. When I started in trucking in April 68, the company I worked for had a 54 Freightliner 2 axle with a jo-dog, 220 cimmins, 5x3 trans, sleeper cab. They built it from junk for a yard truck to load the sack, bulk & liquid sugar at the Union Sugar plant in Betteravia, CA, about 7 miles west of our yard. To pull the engine, you had to jack the engine up off the mounts, remove the radiator, trans , etc, & roll the truck backwards til the engine was out! This old freightliner is what I started driving on a regular basis all day loading trucks back to our yard so the line drivers could deliver to LA, Richmond, Hayward, CA. etc. There were 3 removable panels covering the doghouse to gain access to the engine. The noise in this cab was deafening, the dust & dirt blowing around from the fan, (no shutters) made this truck miserable to drive. But who cared,! I was still 16-17 yrs old & would drive anything. Sometimes I would get to drive the line trucks out to load, like a 60 KW cabover, 61 IH COE, 65 Freightliner, 65 Pete conv, 55 Diamond T. This is the only picture I have of that era 1968-1973. The diamond T & 60 KW. The trucks had a 10 sp roadranger with the cable type range shifter. R-96 & R-96O (overdrive)

 

This same outfit also had a 59 IH conv. with the same cab as that Diamond-T[QUOTE="semi" retired;4483276]I love talking old trucks, truckdad. HA, the jo-dog. Do they still have those? I remember CF used them to convert their single axle Freightliners into a tandem. Nice Diamond T. I think that was a 921. I'm not that smart, as it was way before my time, but I like to look those up. It had the IH "Comfovision" cab. The asphalt company I worked for years ago, had a Diamond-Reo day cab we used for a lowboy tractor, and even though it was pretty tired, you could tell it was a pretty classy truck in it's day.[/QUOTE]

 

According to a Mack website, this is a late 40s or early 50s LT, used mainly on the west coast. Note the "proper" attire this gentleman is wearing............. Taken in 54 or 55 on Pacific Ave. in Oxnard, CA