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Phoenix Proving Ground

Date: 1953
Description: Trucks mounting a steep grade in the testing track at International Harvester's Phoenix Proving Ground. Opened in 1947, the proving ground was used by Inte...
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International Pickup Truck on Test Track

Date: 1953
Description: International pickup kicking up dust on a dirt test track at International Harvester's Phoenix Proving Ground. Opened in 1947, the proving ground was used ...
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Phoenix Proving Ground Truck Testing Headquarters

Date: 1953
Description: Headquarters building for truck testing at International Harvester's Phoenix Proving Ground. Opened in 1947, the proving ground was used by International H...
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International Truck Testing at Phoenix Proving Ground

Date: 1953
Description: International semi trucks mounting a long hill at International Harvester's Phoenix Proving Ground. Opened in 1947, the proving ground was used by Internat...
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Annabel Nelson with Rubber Toys

Date: 1942
Description: Annabel Nelson places three rubber toys on a scale, presumably to donate them to the war effort, while F.E. Williams looks on. The two crouch on the groun...
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International Truck at Fort Wayne Proving Grounds

Date: 1940
Description: International D-30 truck driving a "twist course" at the Fort Wayne Proving Grounds.
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International DR-700 Truck at Fort Wayne Proving Grounds

Date: 1940
Description: International DR-700 truck driving on "twist course" at Fort Wayne Proving Grounds.
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International F-2375 Truck on Cross Country Trip

Date: 10 1982
Description: Color photograph of an International F-2375 truck on a tree-lined highway in autumn. The truck completed a test run from Los Angeles to New York to demonst...
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Truck Development at Fort Wayne

Date: 1972
Description: A man is in a room with testing equipment. In the background is a man sitting in the driver's seat of a truck.
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Ice-Covered Truck in Cold Lab

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Description: A man is looking through a window towards another man in a cold lab testing a truck. Caption reads: "A parka-clad engineer braves thirty below zero tempera...
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Proving Ground

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Description: Caption reads: "Close by International Harvester Company's mammoth new motor truck engineering building and laboratories is the Fort Wayne proving ground, ...

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