The printable version is no longer supported and may have rendering errors. Please update your browser bookmarks and please use the default browser print function instead.
The front and back views of a tanker taken from the 1959 Annual Report of Ind Coope. The blurb that goes with states that it ".. shows the newly designed livery for Ind Coope transport ...
... one of the biggest of Ind Coope's fleet of 35 road tankers, used for conveying beer from brewery to bottling plant. This tanker holds approximately 92 barrels of beer – that is over 52,000 bottles of Double Diamond...". Courtesy Ray Anderson
Double Diamond
Works Wonders!
Originally a pale ale first brewed by Allsopps in the 19th century. Under the ownership of Ind Coope Ltd, then Allied Breweries, the beer became a major bottle and keg brand, particularly from the 1940s to the 1970s.
From a series of adverts for Double Diamond
Some Double Diamond advertising
Swan, Abergavenny: WRB 2009
Railway, Ashbourne: SP 2007
Railway, Ashbourne: MBr 2017
Talbot, Berriew: Kel (Brisbane)
Leicester Road, Market Harborough: SP 2006
Mill Hill Lane, Leicester: BHK 2008
Mill Hill Lane, Leicester: SP 2017
Butchers Arms, Reapsmoor: BHK 2013
Royal Oak, Rhayader: SRH 2008