1950's era utilities vehicles

Could a truck be cobbled together using a more modern (read:more available)  utility bed placed on an older cab and frame? Or just get a stake bed truck, paint it in your utility's colors and place a wire reel on the bed. That would give the climbers a purpose. Don't know how practical either idea is, but they may be better than trying to find what you're looking for.

 

J White

 

Hello  That would a possibility I guess but I would have thought someone like diecast direct would make 1950's style utility trucks ??  Thanks  gary

Now we're talkin I think you have the right idea !!  gary

Gary:

 

I don’t have an O scale model to show you but I took this photo at the NC Transportation Museum in Spencer, NC last month.  It appears to be a former Bell System lineman’s truck.  They have some nice trains there, too!

 

Did you ever work for Penelec?  If so did you ever work at the Shawville plant?

 

Bill

 

 

+1 on wishing that one of the die-cast producers/importers would offer some of these models in something close to O-scale!!

No I never worked for Penelec but i do where the shawville plant was !!  That is what I am looking for !!  Gary

Hey DieCAST direct if you're following these posts   Why not make some utility vehicle for us guys who model 50/60's era layouts !!   Thanks   Gary

...and, of course, in something for pre-1940, on an intersting defunct chassis, such as as Indiana or Federal or ? I don't remember ever seeing a bucket truck like that one

pictured above ....a '50's era Ford?