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Truck vs. Texaco: 1940s
Scan from a stereo slide probably in the late 1940s near Titusville, Pennsylvania, taken by Ralph E. Archer (my grandfather), who owned and operated a camera store there from 1929 to 1961. Uncertain as to the year but maybe someone will recognize the truck model or what's left of it. It's from Anthony F. Glass Trucking of New Philadelphia, Ohio. My main interest in this photo was how both that Texaco sign and gas pump ended up inside the front fender. View full size.
I'll take a stab at it.
By the look of that recessed windshield and the little of the hood badge that is visible I think we are looking at a White model WA 20 or 21 super power. Very popular as vocational trucks in the late 1940s. Big old flat head six for a motor with maybe a twin stick 5x3 transmission. Just how the driver managed to tear two gas pumps out of the ground, twist the Texaco sign in behind the bumper and knock the front axle loose on the truck without catching fire is a mystery. How about that EDBD dump trailer. That's a cutie.
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