Re: 1946 Diamond T

["Thomas R. Elliott Jr." <T_R_E_Jr@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

---Thank you ever so much for the brief glance back in history, and thank
you for correcting me, I surely meant to say Diamond Reo, but for some
reason I said Diamont T (when talking about the White/Diamond merger).

---FWIW, heard anything about White/GMC and IIRC, Ford merging? That would
make GMC Trucks now something built by Ford. I will have the guy who showed
me the info send me a URL again to the place where the news could be read.
LMAO, taking away GMC to me means a start in taking GM/Chevy off the market.
I would never be so pleased to see a bunch on inconsiderate, greedy and
unconscious group of corprate !@#$% sitting on the curb outside the
unemployment office. Then again, 90% of the employees would be there too...
Okay, I take it back.

---Thank you,
-T.R.E.Jr.
-`73 Scout II (StoneThrower)
-`51 Farmall H (Heinz)
-`49 IH fridge (presently unnamed and in need of a compressor)
-`49 Plymouth Special Deluxe 4-door Sedan (Papapalooza)


----- Original Message -----
From: "Howard R Pletcher" <n9ads@domain.elided>
To: <ihc-digest@domain.elided>
Sent: Monday, June 09, 2003 5:17 PM
Subject: Re: 1946 Diamond T


> There was never any corporate connection between IH and Diamond T.  I
> guess the answer is in the old saying to believe none of what you hear
> and half of what you read, particularly when generated by an used-car
> selling auctioneer.
>
> Diamond T began in 1905 when C.A. Tilt began building cars in Chicago.
> The Diamond T was a logo used by his father in a shoe-making business and
> Charles adopted this for his cars and trucks.  During the 1950's, IH and
> Diamond T did work closely in some areas.  The so-called R-Line cab was
> originally a Diamond T design that IH began building.  The CO-190 cab
> over models were also a Diamond T design also adopted by IH.  In the
> mid-1950's, IH built this model for Diamond T in Fort Wayne and for a
> time, Diamond T build the heaviest of the R-lines, the models that
> evolved into the M-series Mixers, in Chicago for IH because of plant
> capacity constraints in Fort Wayne.  But this is as close as the two
> companies got.
>
> In 1958, White Motor Co. bought Diamond T and moved production to the REO
> plant in Lansing, MI.  The two lines were merged into Diamond Reo in
> 1967.  Diamond Reo filed for bankruptcy in 1975, two years later the
> company was bought by Osterlund Inc. of Harrisburg, PA and production
> moved there, lasting into the 1980's.  In 1993, the company was sold to
> the New Diamond T Co. and they still build trucks for the export market.
>
> Howard
>
> On Mon, 9 Jun 2003 14:51:42 -0500 "Thomas R. Elliott Jr."
> <T_R_E_Jr@domain.elided> writes:
> > ---OK, it has been over a week since this posting and I still haven't
> found
> > anything. When did IHC Own Diamond? Diamond was under it's own
> ownership in
> > the from the beginning by a guy from Chicago until was bought by
> GM/White
> > (When Diamond T was created), was it not? Never in the history of
> Diamond
> > have I heard of IHC having any hand in the company. Did I miss
> > something?