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A7171-2
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- 1938-04-13 (Creation)
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Truck with extension. Peterman Manufacturing Company. Parked beside building with shed roofs with clerestory windows. The door and veneer manufacturing company was owned by Theodore A. Peterman. This is the first "Peterbuilt" truck ever built by the Peterman Manufacturing Co. It was headed toward Al Peterman's Morton logging operations. The truck carried a spare set of traction tires. Mr. Peterman had first experimented on an older fleet of White trucks before building this prototype in 1938. He then bought the Fageol truck plant in Oakland, which had gone out of business during the Depression years, and started manufacturing Peterbuilt trucks there. (Additional information provided by a reader)
Peterman Manufacturing Co. (Tacoma); Trucks--Tacoma--1930-1940;