The Fleetside design had a square look with a flat panel cargo box and offered more carrying capacity than the Stepside. The Stepside design would be known for being more stylish essentially using the exterior design of the many earlier models of the 1930’s and 1940’s. The Stepsidemodels ...
–The Great Truck Race comes to LaCrosse( Semi Tractors)- July 17 –Shawna Robinson appears with trucks. –Marv Marzofka announces retirement. –John Christenson wins 1st Hobby feature. –Ted Musgrave wins 1st LM feature- Aug 31. –Dick Trickle wins 13 features. ...
Ford Motor Company, American automotive corporation cofounded in 1903 by Henry Ford. One of the world’s largest automakers, it manufactures passenger cars, trucks, and tractors as well as automotive parts and accessories. Learn more about Ford’s histor
His engineering company focuses on the war effort, producing tractors, tank components and more. “Ace of aces” Eddie Rickenbacker, the United States’ most successful fighting pilot and a close ally of Jim Allison, wins 26 aerial victories during the war. James A. Allison’s racing team ...
They could be fitted with .30 or .50 caliber machine guns for combat. They were also widely modified for long-range desert patrol, snow plowing, telephone cable laying, saw milling, as fire-fighting pumpers, field ambulances, tractors and, with suitable wheels, would even run on railway ...
Falaise Pocket 1944 The Falaise Pocket (12 to 21 August 1944) was the last decisive battle in Normandy during WWII. The Allied Armies formed a pocket around Falaise, Calvados, in which German Army Group B, consisting remnants of the 7th Army and the 5th Panzer Army (the tattered remains of...
Drove a lot of COE’s but all straight trucks, in any city downtown it’s the only way to go, I used to say “I’d rather have the4 feet behind me making money than being in front of me getting in the way. I drove a couple of COE tractors and found the ride not too bad ...
Steyr-Daimler manufactured many types of vehicles (cars, trucks, ATVs, tractors, motorcycles and bicycles) as well as tools and weapons. In the 1990s various production departments were finally closed down or sold, the rest of the group was taken over in 1998 by “Magna Holding AG”, which...
and tractors designed to withstand the more challenging road conditions of the Middle East, Africa, and Australia. The E-Series was also designed for the international over-the-road truck market. The E-Series cab was located over the engine. Both the E- and R-Series trucks were powered by...
1928: Volvo Special (longer version of the PV4). First truck is launched. First foreign subsidiary, settled in Finland. 1929: PV651 with 6-cilinder engine. Volvo almost sold to Nash. 1930: TR671 and TR672 taxi-models introduced. Also PV652 introduced and Volvo buys the Hisingen-factory ...