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St. Louis Truck Assembly was a General Motors automobile factory that built GMC and Chevrolet trucks, GM "B" body passenger cars, and the 1954–1981 Corvette models in St. Louis. Opened in the 1920s as a Fisher body plant and Chevrolet chassis plant, it expanded facilities to manufacture trucks on a separate line.
Restored CCKW 353 Cargo truck with open cab, machine gun ring, and front-mounted winch. The GMC CCKW, also known as "Jimmy", or the G-508 by its Ordnance Supply Catalog number, [a] was a highly successful series of off-road capable, 2 1 ⁄ 2-ton, 6×6 trucks, built in large numbers to a standardized design (from 1941 to 1945) for the U.S. Army, that saw heavy service, predominantly as cargo ...
There are both air-cooled and liquid-cooled engines available with power ranging from 230–440 kilowatts (310–590 hp). As a successor to Tatra 813 it was originally designed for extreme off-road conditions, while nowadays there are also variants designated for mixed (both off- and on-road) use. The gross weight is up to 35,500 kg (78,264 lb).
Bigfoot 3 in St. Louis, January 1984: Bigfoot 4 1984 This truck debuted on July 31, 1984, at the grand opening of the new Bigfoot headquarters in Hazelwood, Missouri. It was the first of the "Stage II" trucks, built specifically as a monster truck and not modified from a stock production vehicle.
The "South" plant opened in 1959, while the "North" portion opened in 1966. The Saint Louis Factory was built to accommodate Chrysler's new Chrysler B platform allowing the company to build subcompact vehicles. Saint Louis North was the home of minivan production from 1987 through 1995, when it was converted to build the Dodge Ram pickup truck ...
Margay is a kart chassis manufacturer that designs and builds sprint and endurance karts in St. Louis, Missouri, USA. Margay has been around karting almost since karting began. The company started out in 1964 making gearboxes for karts then tried building chassis. It proved to be an instant success.
A Hayes-Anderson truck from 1933. The Hayes Manufacturing Company was established in Vancouver in 1920 by Douglas Hayes, an owner of a parts dealer, [1] [2] and entrepreneur W. E. Anderson from Quadra Island, [2] as Hayes-Anderson Motor Company Ltd. [3] The company sold American-built trucks and truck parts for the first two years, then built their own trucks, because the trucks weren’t ...
The truck was among the best off-road cargo vehicles of its time and the Czechoslovak Army used it for more than half a century. [3] It was the longest produced Czechoslovak truck [ 4 ] and it still serves in Czech Army for more than 70 years, despite being slowly replaced by Tatra 810 and Tatra 815 .