Here you go truck fans, a book just for you! Featuring small-scale independent truck manufacturers, this book offers a selection of trucks no longer manufactured, but that in their time...
With Dodge B-Series trucks becoming more rare with each passing year, it becomes more difficult to correctly identify an original condition truck. Drawing upon official Chrysler publications and a broad...
American COE (Cab Over Engine) designs began to appear as a way to maximize loads and abide by individual U.S. state length regulations. By shortening the overall length of the...
Prior to the 1970s, when length laws were written to allow longer configurations to run on the national interstate highway system, you would only see a lot of these trucks...
The first Dodge trucks with the famous Power Wagon nameplate were introduced in 1946 when Dodge adapted its 4WD 3/4-ton military truck built for use in WWII. As a civilian...
Peterbilt Trucks 1939-1979: At Work (At Work Series) Building trucks for many local businesses along the West Coast, Peterbilt Trucks had to prove themselves on winding rugged mountain roads, and...
By 1972 there were nearly one million tractor-trailer rigs hauling every conceivable kind of cargo on America’s roads. Can you imagine the variety of trucks you would have seen at...
Tar Heel Treasures: Richard J. Corbitt and the Corbitt Motor Truck tells the important story of two of North Carolina’s largely and undeservedly forgotten Tar Heel Treasures. Little known today...
Discover the captivating legacy of the Milwaukee Road, an iconic railway that held the hearts of Midwest travelers, shippers, dedicated railway personnel, and enthusiasts alike. Delve into the pages of...
Here’s your beautifully photographed one-stop source for everything you ever wanted to know about the immensely popular classic Ford tractors. First manufactured in 1917, Ford tractors (initially sold under the...
How to Restore Farmall Tractors, the only Farmall restoration guide, is back in print and packed with hundreds of helpful step-by-step photographs, proven tips and techniques, and money-saving advice from...
From Abbott & Downing to Zwak, this comprehensive volume combines company histories, innovations and hundreds of photographs to present the story of American fire engine manufacturing. The objective of this...
From the first “Mom & Pop” stops to the truck stops built by oil companies, to today’s travel plazas and turnpike stations, this is the first in-depth history of America’s...
FWD Trucks 1910-1974 Photo Archive Established in 1910, The Four Wheel Drive Auto Company was created to produce automobiles. The Battleship, America's "first successful four-wheel-drive automobile," was offered for sale...
The first and only history devoted solely to Ford's heavy-duty haulers provides big-truck enthusiasts with a comprehensive history of the line supplemented by a wealth of archival and modern photography....
America's most talked-about train, the California Zephyr was inaugurated March 20, 1949, book-ended by the world-class skylines of Chicago and San Francisco. Operated in partnership over three railroads; Chicago, Burlington...
Bucyrus-Erie Company is a name synonymous with moving the earth. From the smallest loader-backhoe to some of the largest machines ever to move on land, no other company has produced...
International Heavy Trucks Of The 1950S (At Work) The success of International's 1950s semi-trucks continued into the 1960s. Many series were carried over from the 1950s, but International now offered...
The most complete, in-depth book on hearses and funeral cars ever! Beginning with horse drawn, highly ornate hearses up to today?s motorized vehicles, this book takes you through the complete...
In the history of heavy equipment development, no single man's name is more respected or revered as that of R. G. LeTourneau. Robert Gilmour LeTourneau is considered by many to...
Walt McCall follows up his successful Classic American Ambulances 1900-1979 Photo Archive with a new and expanded title that fills in a heretofore missing chapter in American emergency vehicle history....
International Heavy Trucks Of The 1960S (At Work) The success of International's 1950s semi-trucks continued into the 1960s. Many series were carried over from the 1950s, but International now offered...
Donald Martin Brockway founded the Crown Carriage Company in 1904, the same year that Henry Ford started Ford. With no engineering department at this time, Brockway would draw the outlines...
Reo Trucks: 1910-1966 Photo Archive Ransom Eli Olds was best known as the inventor of the Oldsmobile. In 1904 Olds was unsatisfied and left the company, which left time to...
