Photograph
Welding a Milk Truck
| Welding a milk truck at the Heil Corporation in Milwaukee. The Heil company was founded by German-born Julius P. Heil in 1901. As the Heil Rail Joint Weld Co., Heil successfully pioneered the new welding technology, eventually becoming wealthy as a manufacturer of truck trailers and bodies and refuse collecting vehicles. He served as governor of Wisconsin from 1939 to 1943. In 1926 the company introduced the first tin-lined steel milk tank trucks. The company was sold to Dover Industries by the Heil family in 1993. Today its manufacturing takes place in Tennessee, Texas, and other locations around the world. |
| Image ID: | 40735 |
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| Creation Date: | before 1949 |
| Creator Name: | Unknown |
| City: | Milwaukee |
| County: | Milwaukee |
| State: | Wisconsin |
| Collection Name: | Classified file, circa 1850s-1950s |
| Genre: | Photograph |
| Original Format Type: | photographic print, b&w |
| Original Format Number: | CF 6254 |
| Original Dimensions: | 9.5x7.5 inches |
| 1949 date is based on the fact that the photograph was donated by the Heil Co. in that year. The image appeared in the Feb/March section of the 1950 Wisconsin Historical Calendar. |
| Welding |
| Trucks |
| Factories |
| Milk trade |
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| Location: | Wisconsin Historical Society Archives, 4th Floor, Madison, Wisconsin |
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