Word: trucks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Fruehauf Trailer Co. (first in 1938 truck trailer sales): "differential dual" wheels, with which a double-tired trailer can swing a corner and have tires 1 and 2 on each wheel revolve at different speeds. Claim: savings on gas and tires...
...Truck Show...
Four Wheel Drive Auto Co.: a $12,900, 200-h.p. dirt truck, powered in front and rear wheels, with ten forward speeds, ten cubic yards capacity, sensitive hydraulic steering, dual controls so that a driver can stand on its running board and drive it under an excavating shovel. Also a $13,000 fire engine that can travel at 75 m.p.h., pump 1,000 gallons of water per minute...
Walter Motor Truck Co.: an $11,000, six-man-cab tractor-trailer combine that can haul 20 tons over rough ground...
...Wood Industries, Inc.: a garbage truck body with a hydraulic ram tailboard which, as garbage is dumped in at the rear, presses it forward, squeezes garbage juice into a tank. Claims: dry garbage burns better, squashed garbage takes up less room...