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The company also used Leyland's components for the trucks. [2] [3] Three employees – Vic Barclay, Mac Billingsley and Claude Thick – left Hayes to start Pacific Trucks in 1947. Hayes merged with Lawrence Manufacturing in 1949. [1] [3] In 1952, the company started manufacturing the HDX, which was the most successful truck manufactured by Hayes.
The FWD Model B was a cab over engine truck with full-time four wheel drive powered by a 389 cubic inch straight-four Wisconsin T-head engine that produced 36 bhp (27 kW) at 1,800 rpm. The chassis was constructed with a double ladder frame, with a short inner frame carrying the engine and driveline mounted within an outer frame that mounted the ...
The CargoStar was a forward control cab-over-engine medium-duty series introduced in 1970. Replacing the cab-over-engine LoadStar models, the CargoStar had an improved cab and heavier models. The CargoStar's maneuverability made it useful in cities as straight trucks, larger models could be local semi-tractors. The CargoStar was discontinued in ...
This was a record-breaking six-foot length (with the tailgate up) load bed on a vehicle whose total 147.5 in (370 cm) length was two inches shorter than the diminutive two-seat Nash Metropolitan. [ 9 ] [ 10 ] The rugged design and go-anywhere capability included a claim that the FC could climb grades of up to 60% and reviews by Mechanix ...
Sharing its wider cab with the T680/T880, the W990 is an all-new design distinct from the W900. The extended-hood W900B and W900L remain in current production. Alongside the W900B and L, the B-cab models remaining in production are the C500 (Brute) severe-service truck and the 963 off-road extreme heavy-haul truck (2005-present).
1946 Peterbilt flatbed 1939 Peterbilt Model 334 (1 of 2 built 1939). In 1939, the Fageol plant in Oakland opened for business as Peterbilt Motors Company. As part of the design process, Peterman and his company engineers sought input from truck owners and drivers on how to develop trucks; [10] [11] initially planning to develop chain-drive trucks for the logging industry, the company ...
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The "Type 80" was the first cab-over truck that Nissan produced. It was built between 1937 and 1941, during the time when Nissan was under a joint venture with American Graham-Paige . Thus, the Type 80 shared a modified version of the chassis from the Nissan Type 70 sedan (A copy of the Graham-Paige Crusader) but was lengthened and made heavier.