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evening every one 1531 is progressing well and attended it's first show this weekend at the south cerney steam fair just out side Cirencester and naturally there was only one way it was going to travel!!<br>

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regards sam

Looking good Sam well done! I've got my new springs, thanks mate, keep up the good work, cheers Lee.

lots of painting and finally a bit more assembly, Belgium army re built brake actuators fitted and end of next week should see the chassis returned and front axle re fitted. <br>

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regards sam

Congratulations on your work and this thread Sam. Were either of your old front spring top leaves OK as I could do with one for my 980. Alternatively where did you get your new springs? Also I read elsewhere that you have a replacement cab. Have you still got the old one as I need a pattern to make a new one for mine. Cheers Lee.

Oh yes, we are interested!

 

That cab is a work of art but probably saved the truck from being scrapped as I would guess tin worm got the original one.

Hi rog8811, you're dead right, I have spoken to Ron Groom who sold both trucks around twenty five years ago and he said they had a local firm build the new cab when the original hard cab got too rough. I'm hoping to find a scrap hard cab to use as a pattern to build a new one as this one is now quite rotten and not the prettiest thing on earth. Thanks for the interest, cheers Lee.

Hi to you all, here's some photos of an ex Groom and Llewellyn of Bridgend Diamond T 980. It's one of a pair they had, this one Rolls powered, the other was still Hercules. My brother Tony and I bought this truck in a partly dismantled state about 25 miles away from our home in Cornwall back in January but only got it back to our yard last week. It took a few trips back and forth over the last few months to get the thing mobile as we had to drive it about a mile and a half from the farm where it's been for the last few years to a lay-by where we could load it on to a mates low-loader. If anyone is interested I can post more photos and restoration updates as and when bits get done. Cheers for now Lee.