Diamond T 969 was a vehicle recovery truck based on a4 ton 6x6 chassis, powered with a Hercules RXC six-cylinder gasoline engine and equipped with a five-speed overdrive transmission and a direct and under drive transfer, manufactured from roughly 1940 until 1945 by the Diamond T Motor Car Company in Chicago. ‘Tho wrecker carried a hoavy duty set of Holmes W45 Twin Boom Wrecker gear, designed in the inter-war period for civilian breakdown trucks. Either boom could operate as a normal crane but together the booms provided a greater lifting capacity at ‘the rear of the vehicle. The wrecker was fitted with stabiliser legs on each side to keep the vehicle upright when the booms were used for side lit. This also saved the necessity of using the opposite boom as an anchor. The lifting winches were power operated, rated at 10 000 Ibs. Linked together, a lift of 10 US tons was possible, but to suspend a towed load of this weight would exceed the truck's chassis loading. These trucks carried a front mounted Gar Wood winch rated at 15 000 Ibs. Wreckers were quipped with De Vilbiss or Kellogg compressors. More than 6 000 969 and 969A wreckers were produced, fitted with earlier closed or later open cab. Those vehicles were also supplied to the Allied countries through the Lend-Lease Act, and after the WWII numbers of them were stil In use in various countries for many years Go through assembly guide before you start your work. Some gates are larger, because we don’t want any ejector marks on parts, and also very thin true-to scale parts require larger gates to avoid filling issues, you need to use a little razor blade and sharp scalpel to remove these parts carefully. 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