White trucks: books - history, models and technology
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White Trucks 1900-1937 - Photo Archive
White Co. was one of America's earliest and most successful truck manufacturers. White trucks worked at a variety of applications: dump trucks, sedan deliveries, express, step vans, buses, tankers, and more.
The book begins with the first White model through De Sakhnoffsky's ultra-streamlined designs of the late 1930s. It contains 123 photos from Detroit Public Library's National Automotive History Collection,
Author:
Don Bunn
Specs:
128 pages, 22 x 26.5 x 0.9 cm / 8.7 x 10.4 x 0.35 in, paperback
A major producer of American trucks between 1919 and 1980, White was originally founded as a sewing machine company in 1876. But, of course, it was as a truck manufacturer that White is best remembered. During its production years, White offered a broad array of light, medium and heavy-duty trucks.
This book reviews White medium and heavy-duty truck models in roughly the decade of the 1950s, including the WC, 3000, 4000, 5000, and 9000 series. Superb photography combined with detailed captions bring the reader a complete picture of these marvelous trucks.
Author:
Barry R. Bertram
Specs:
128 pages, 21.5 x 26 x 1 cm / 8.5 x 10.25 x 0.39 in, paperback
White Motor Company produced American trucks between 1919 and 1980 with its primary manufacturing facilities in Cleveland, Ohio. White offered a broad array of light, medium, and heavy-duty trucks before concentrating on the latter from the 1960s on. White fell on hard financial times and declared bankruptcy in 1980.
In this book author Barry Bertram continues his review of White Trucks with an in-depth look at the medium and heavy-duty truck models of the 1960s, including the 1500, 4000, 5000, 7400, and 9000 series. Here is the ideal companion to Bertram's earlier book "White Trucks of the 1950s at Work".
Author:
Barry R. Bertram
Specs:
128 pages, 21.5 x 26.5 x 1.3 cm / 8.5 x 10.4 x 0.51 in, paperback
In 1951, Consolidated Freightways signed an agreement with the White Motor Co. allowing White to distribute Freightliner trucks through White Dealerships. The co-branded White-Freightliner trucks gained momentum through the 1950s with sales exploding during the 1960s. Even though sales increased dramatically during this period Consolidated Freightways remained the largest user of White-Freightliner trucks.
As you look at the photos on the pages of this book, you will see the many different customers and the hauling jobs they did in the peak of their popularity. Small, medium or large hauling jobs, White-Freightliners fit the needs of the trucking industry. An extensive photo collection allows Ron Adams to select the greatest of these big rigs.
Author:
Ron Adam
Specs:
128 pages, 21.5 x 26 x 1.1 cm / 8.5 x 10.25 x 0.43 in, paperback
