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...trucks. Now he has enough orders to run full blast for more than a year, has specialized in three main military types: 1) Diamond T-designed six-by-sixes (six cylinders, six driving wheels) used for gun crew carriers, artillery tractors, etc.; 2) hefty half-tracks (built cooperatively with Autocar and White Motor); 3) tank hauler and recovery units, sensational monsters which handle big tanks like toys, have 2½-ft.-wide fenders and an engine weighing more than an ordinary 1½-ton truck...
Though competitors, three truck manufacturers (White, Diamond T, Autocar) set up a joint purchasing committee to speed their work on 9,347 standardized Army trucks and scout cars. The committee first got subcontractors tooled up without duplicating facilities, now places bulk orders for all materials...
...Hutchinson, Studebaker's Paul G. Hoffman, Willys-Overland's J. W. Frazer, Nash-Kelvinator's George Mason, Hudson's A. E. Barit, International Harvester's W. F. McAfee, Diamond T Motor's E. J. Bush, White's Robert Black, Autocar's Robert P. Page...
Among other makers of big trucks are Autocar, whose 1940 bookings already total $22,000,000, double 1939 sales. Brockway's new models include long, 55-passenger school busses, even longer tank trucks, impressive six-wheelers. New Federals include a square, unstreamlined ¾-ton unit for city deliveries, others up to 20 tons. The radiators on the new Four Wheel Drive hang so far over the front-wheels they appear dangerously near nosing-over. Another giant, Mormon-Harrington, specializes in lumber, petroleum and construction hauling. The revitalized Reo runs from one-and-a-half-ton general-purpose trucks...
Lame, lank, atrabilious Charles Grey Grey is a 32nd generation Northumberlander. He studied engineering at London's Crystal Palace School of Engineering. Never more than a competent draftsman, he took to peddling bicycles, then advertising for a motoring journal, The Autocar. The Autocar's, editors presently discovered in Grey a clever pen, converted him into a reporter, in 1908 gave him his first big assignment: a Paris air show. When Cub Grey pointed out that he spoke no French his editor tut-tutted: "At least you won't be misled by French eloquence." Nor was he ever...