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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...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 to 34-ton tractor-trailer combinations. Well streamlined, Reo pushed a knifelike...
...home with a form, take the filled-in form back to the registration officer. If the invalid cannot get someone to act for him he must register within five days after he gets up. Hospital superintendents, doctors, nurses will be delegated to register their patients. Portable invalids (e.g., in wheel chairs) can take their choice of sending a friend or of wheeling to the registration office...
Mercury, in its third year, has six models including a new station wagon. Resembling an oversize Ford, they feature larger bodies, longer wheel bases, "re-engineered ride." Prices...
Oldsmobile's line is the widest in its 43-year history, includes wheel bases from 119 to 125 inches, engines from 100 to no h.p., prices from $852 to $1,575. A little more streamlined, new models look much like the '40s. Hydra-Matic drive (no clutch) is optional on all models...
Willys, which has had more ups & downs in recent years than any other car, got patriotic, named its '41s "Americar," dropped the once-famed "Overland" name altogether. Four cylinders turn out 63 h.p., wheel base is two inches longer and every car has a gravel shield at the rear end. Prices...