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The company was founded in 1910 as the Bailey Motor Truck Company but was later renamed to Federal. The company then opened a factory in Leavitt Street, near Southwest Detroit. During the prosperous time of the company, around 700 people worked there, producing as many as 3,500 trucks annually. The main competitor of the company was Diamond T.
View history; General ... Federal: Federal 75K131: medium truck: no: 1939-? United States (of the United States Coast Guard) ... medium truck: yes: 1936-1939: Italy ...
The L series was a complete range of trucks introduced in late 1949. The first new trucks since the war-era D/K/KB models, they introduced a cab with a one-piece curved windshield that continued in service until 1971. They were also the first trucks with the Raymond Loewy "IH" insignia that was used into the 1970s.
Starting in 1910, the development of a number of technologies gave rise to the modern trucking industry. With the advent of the gasoline-powered internal combustion engine, improvements in transmissions, the move away from chain drives to gear drives, and the development of the tractor/semi-trailer combination, shipping by truck gained in popularity. [1]
In 1939–1941, the US Army Quartermaster Corps was developing a full, and largely standardized line of tactical trucks, that could all operate off-road, and in all weather. In 1941, trucks of 1 ⁄ 4 -ton, 1 ⁄ 2 -ton, 1 + 1 ⁄ 2 -ton, and 3-ton load capacity, (4x4), and of 2 + 1 ⁄ 2 -ton , 4-ton, and 7 + 1 ⁄ 2 -tons, (6x6), were in ...
This is a list of automobiles produced for the general public in the North American market. They are listed in chronological order from when each model began its model year
1936 – Second London Naval Treaty; 1936 - Jesse Owens won 4 gold medals at the Olympics in Berlin, Germany; 1936 – U.S. presidential election, 1936: Franklin D. Roosevelt reelected president, John N. Garner reelected vice president; 1936 - 1936 Tupelo–Gainesville tornado outbreak; 1936 - Babe Ruth and Ty Cobb named to baseball's Hall of Fame
In 1937, the US armed forces bought Mack's commercial E series in small orders, the EH was the largest model. In 1942, large numbers of modified trucks were supplied under Lend-Lease to Britain and many could be seen carrying the L or H-numbers of the British War Department.