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  2. Miller Industries - Wikipedia

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    Miller Industries is an American tow truck and towing equipment manufacturing company based in the Chattanooga suburb of Ooltewah, Tennessee.Its primary subsidiary, Miller Industries Towing Equipment Inc., manufactures a variety of light- to heavy-duty wreckers, car carriers, and rotators under several brand names, including Century, Vulcan, Chevron, and Holmes.

  3. Highway Thru Hell - Wikipedia

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    HR 117 – 2015 Western Star 4900sb Tri Axle Century 9055 with SP-850 XP side puller (50 ton), sold to Berg's Towing in Monmouth, IL, traded in to Zip's and then to A+ Towing; HR 126 – 1999 Peterbilt 379 Vulcan V70 (25 ton), Wrecker body is a 2015, truck went into service in 2016, sold to Peninsula Towing in Vancouver Island January 2021

  4. Mack NM 6-ton 6x6 truck - Wikipedia

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    The NM-1 and NM-2 had an amidships mounted winch with a capstan head. It had a short steel cargo body 11 feet (3.35 m) long and 7 feet 4 inches (2.24 m) wide. The cargo body had troop seats, a canvas cover, and a spare wheel on the front right side. NM-2 had smaller head lamps and parking lamps on top. The NM-3 was the last model to have an ...

  5. AEC Matador - Wikipedia

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    Preserved Matador artillery tractor, Beltring 2011. Over 9,600 Matadors were built, [3] some going to the Royal Air Force (RAF). For the British Army, it fulfilled a role between field artillery tractors (FATs) such as the Morris C8 Quad, which towed smaller guns such as the 25-pounder gun-howitzer, and the Scammell Pioneer, used for towing the 7.2-inch howitzer.

  6. Ernest Holmes Sr. - Wikipedia

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    Ernest W. Holmes Sr. (January 17, 1883– June 10, 1945) was born in Hobbs Island, Alabama. [1] He became the inventor of the first tow truck when he fastened various parts to his 1913 Cadillac. [2] He then founded Ernest Holmes Co, which still spiritually lives on through Miller Industries.

  7. Kenworth 10-ton 6x6 heavy wrecking truck - Wikipedia

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    ISBN 978-1-78214-192-1. TM 9-795 Heavy Wrecking Truck M1 (Series 1 and 2). US War Dept. 1942. TM 9-796 Heavy Wrecking Truck M1A1 (Kenworth Model 573, Ward LaFrance Series 5). US War Dept. 1944. TM 9-2800 Standard Military Motor Vehicles. US Deptartment of the Army. 1 September 1943. pp. 312– 313; TM 9-2800 Military Vehicles

  8. 2½-ton 6×6 truck - Wikipedia

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    A Red Ball Express truck gets stuck in the mud during World War II, 1944. 1971 AM General M35A2 with winch and camouflage cargo cover. The 2 + 12-ton, 6×6 truck was a standard class of medium duty trucks, designed at the beginning of World War II for the US Armed Forces, in service for over half a century, from 1940 into the 1990s.

  9. Vulcan (motor vehicles) - Wikipedia

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    Brothers Thomas and Joseph Hampson had built an experimental car in Bolton in 1899. [2] In 1902 they moved to Southport trading as Vulcan Motor Manufacturing and Trading and built the first Vulcan car which was a 4 hp single-cylinder belt-driven type driving the rear wheels through a two speed gearbox and a belt to the back axle.