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Winther Motor Company, Factory Product

Date: 1921
Description: Side view of an early rotary snowplow truck manufactured by the Winther Motor and Truck Company.
Photograph

Winther Motor Company, Factory Product

Date: 1921
Description: Truck with attached crane manufactured by the Winther Motors Inc., factory.
Photograph

Winther Motor Company, Factory Product

Date: 1921
Description: A truck with a posthole digger mounted on back on the side of the road, manufactured by Winther Motor and Truck Company.
Photograph

Four Women and Truck

Date: 1918
Description: Pictured here are four of the women who joined the work force at the Four Wheel Drive Company in Clintonville in order to build trucks for the American and...
Photograph

World War I Trucks

Date: 1918
Description: Trucks of the Four Wheel Drive Company of Clintonville manufactured at the Kissel Motor Car Company plant in Hartford during World War I, thus uniting in o...
Photograph

Highway Trailer Factory

Date: 1917
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...
Book or Pamphlet

Oshkosh Motor Trucks

Date: 1920
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...
Photograph

Highway Trailer

Date: 1948
Description: Twin refrigerated trailers, "coldmobiles," manufactured by the Highway Trailer Co. of Edgerton.
Photograph

Nash Quad

Date: 1918
Description: The standard U.S. Ordnance Department ammunition body manufactured by Nash Motors, the so-called "Nash Quad."
Photograph

War Departmental Trial

Date: 1918
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 ...
Photograph

Stoughton Truck

Date: 1920
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...
Photograph

Enola the Welder

Date: 02 1943
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...
Photograph

Allis Chalmers Tractor-Truck

Date: 1914
Description: During the years 1913-1914 Allis-Chalmers manufactured this vehicle, a tractor-truck, which was primarily sold to the French and Russian governments.
Photograph

Reliance Motor Truck Factory

Date: 1919
Description: Interior of the Reliance Motor Truck Company in Appleton, in which the absence of assembly line construction is notable.
Photograph

Oshkosh Truck Factory

Date: 1940
Description: Exterior of the factory for the Oshkosh Truck Company.
Photograph

Sternberg Truck

Date: 1910
Description: A 1910 model Sternberg Truck which was manufactured in Milwaukee.
Print

Winther Truck Advertisement

Date: 03 09 1918
Description: Advertisement for a truck made by the Winther Motor Truck Company. Headline says, "Built for the Service - Trucks Now Must Yield".
Photograph

Kearns Equipment Inc.

Date: 1930
Description: E.H. Barnes truck parked in front of the Kearns Equipment Inc., building, 3539 W. State Street.
Print

New Stoughton Company Letterhead

Date: 
Description: Letterhead of the New Stoughton Company, manufacturers of truck cabs and bodies, wagons, bob sleds, spreaders, and "Stoughton Cushioned Trailers," with a t...
Drawing

Open View of a Half Truck

Date: 
Description: View from rear of a half truck with the top open and parts labeled with the letters "A" through "T."

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