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| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Original factory of the Highway Trailers Company in Edgerton. Beginning in 1909 the factory was the site of a wagon works, but in 1917 it made a rather ty... |
| Date: | 1928 |
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| Description: | Advertisement from "Motor Age" magazine for the new White Eagle Speedster manufactured by the Kissel Motor Car Company of Hartford, Wisconsin. With 115 ho... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Front cover of the Oshkosh 4-Wheel Drive Motor Truck catalog. Oshkosh Truck Corporation was founded in Oshkosh in 1917. Still headquartered in Oshkosh, t... |
| Date: | 1923 |
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| Description: | A page from a Nash Motors Company catalog, showing a six-cylinder, four-passenger sport sedan which was available in deep maroon with a khaki-color mohair ... |
| Date: | 1897 |
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| Description: | Thomas B. Jeffery, founder of the Thomas B. Jeffery Company of Kenosha in 1902. Before that Jeffery produced several experimental automobiles, including th... |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | Twin refrigerated trailers, "coldmobiles," manufactured by the Highway Trailer Co. of Edgerton. |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | The standard U.S. Ordnance Department ammunition body manufactured by Nash Motors, the so-called "Nash Quad." |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Captain Alexander E. Williams of the War Department testing the experimental truck that the Four Wheel Drive Company hoped to manufacture for the army. In ... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Closed truck manufactured by the Stoughton Wagon Company. This company's beginning as a manufacturer of wagons was a common origin for automobile manufact... |
| Date: | 1903 |
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| Description: | A restored early Mitchell originally manufactured in Racine. The color postcard was an advertisement of the Moore Oil Company of Milwaukee. The Mitchell Co... |
| Date: | 08 07 1929 |
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| Description: | A line of fifty "Bradford Cabs" manufactured by the Kissel Motor Car Company of Hartford, Wisconsin. Caption reads: "'Bradford Cabs' built by the Kissel Mo... |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Automobile alleged to be the first coupe built in Wisconsin. The vehicle was built by Gus Wilkie of Sheboygan from the body of a carriage and the chassis f... |
| Date: | 07 1960 |
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| Description: | Mechanics of Van Drisse Motors, a Green Bay Ford dealer, check the engine of Ford Fairlane. |
| Date: | 10 30 1984 |
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| Description: | A five-story tall inflatable gorilla attracted potential buyers to a special sale at the Uptown Lincoln-Mercury dealership in Wauwatosa. Although the pres... |
| Date: | 11 12 1981 |
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| Description: | The Crescent Garage. Although the photograph dates from 1981, the curb-side gas pumps are a throwback to the early days of gas stations. The Crescent Garag... |
| Date: | 02 1943 |
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| Description: | Enola O'Connell, the only woman welder at the Heil Company during World War II, working on gasoline trailer tanks. A 32-year-old widow and the mother of o... |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | During the years 1913-1914 Allis-Chalmers manufactured this vehicle, a tractor-truck, which was primarily sold to the French and Russian governments. |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Interior of the Reliance Motor Truck Company in Appleton, in which the absence of assembly line construction is notable. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Exterior of the factory for the Oshkosh Truck Company. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | A 1910 model Sternberg Truck which was manufactured in Milwaukee. |
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