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| American La France |
1921 - Black and white 6 1/2 x 10 1/4" ad for their Fire Engines. The ad has a picture of one of these imprressive and important vehicles coming toward the reader in a city of tall skyscrapers. The ad headline says "When Fire Threatens" and the text describes many of the hazards that these trucks were not affected by. It mentions that the City of New York uses 119 pieces of American-LaFrance Fire Apparatus and reminds us that they make Commercial Trucks too. |
February 1921 The World's Work |
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$6.00 |
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| Autocar |
Wartime Products - Full color 9 1/2" x 12" ad with a picture of a Multiple-Gun Motor Carriage advancing on the enemy with it's 37mm anti-aircraft gun and .50 caliber machine guns blazing to protect the soldiers that are advancing with it. The ad headline calls it "Deadly". This ad is larger than my scanner bed so the outer edges of the ad will not be visible in the scanned view. |
October 18, 1943 Life magazine |
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$4.50 |
View Wartime 50 |
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| Autocar |
1944 Autocar Trucks - Full color 10" x 13" ad for their heavy trucks that were doing work at the home fronts and at the fighting fronts. The ad has a picture of an Autocar Truck from the Bigge Drayage Company in California slowly pulling a trailer holding a 60-ton hull section of a prefabricated warship for Henry J. Kaiser". The ad claims that the truck and trailer assembly is 105' long and 26 1/2' tall and the 38-wheeled combination must travel along eight miles of city streets. The ad headline calls this another example of going "Down to the Sea in Autocars!". This ad is larger than my scanner bed so the outer edges of the ad will not be visible in the scanned view. |
January 24, 1944 Life magazine |
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$5.00 |
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| Autocar |
1944 Autocar Trucks - Full color 9 1/2" x 12 1/2" wartime ad with a drawing of a Pacific Island dirt road through the jungle. The road is occupied with foot soldiers, a soldier on a motorcycle and a heavy truck pulling a load of fuel while bombers fly low overhead. The ad headline calls this "Big Trucks for Big Jobs" and the ad talks about the special purpose vehicles that are provided by Autocar. This ad is larger than my scanner bed so the outer edges of the ad will not be visible in the scanned view. |
March 20, 1944 Life magazine |
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$4.50 |
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| Autocar |
1945 Autocar Trucks - Ad shows a large Autocar cab being used to deliver a ship's propeller in for wartime production. This ad is larger than my scanner bed so the outer edges of the ad will not be visible in the scanned view. | January 22, 1945 Life magazine |
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| Federal |
1948 Federal Trucks - Full color 7 1/4" x 10 1/2" ad that shows four examples of different types of trucks they produced and sold this year. The ad headline claims that "Federals have won...by costing less to run!". |
January 19, 1948 Time magazine |
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$4.50 |
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| Federal |
1948 Federal Trucks - Full color 7 1/2" x 10 1/2" ad that shows a drawing of a fleet of Federal Trucks that have joined the Coca Cola Fleet in Detroit. The ad headline claims that "Federals have won...by costing less to run!". There is a small wrinkle in the upper right corner. It is not a crease. |
May 17, 1948 Time magazine |
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$4.50 |
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| Jeep |
1948 Jeep Truck Ad shows drawings of a pickup and a stake bed truck. Ad measures 8" x 11" | January 1948 Farm Journal |
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$4.00 | View Jeep Truck 1 | |
| Maxwell |
1920 Maxwell 1 1/2 ton Truck 7 1/2" x 10 1/2" ad | June 1920 Farm Journal |
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$4.50 | View Maxwell Truck 1 | |
| Reo |
1951 REO Comet Trucks - Full color 9 1/2" x 12 1/2" ad with two photos of trucks with Gold Comet Power in action. The ad headline says "Two good reasons why you, too, should buy REO Gold Comet trucks". This ad is larger than my scanner bed so the outer edges of the ad will not be visible in the scanned view. |
April 23, 1951 Life magazine |
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$4.00 |
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| REO |
1951 Gold Comet Trucks - Full color 9 1/2" x 12 1/2" ad for their trucks equipped with Gold Comet Power Engines. The ad has a picture of a man who has driven his Red REO up to the bank. As a policeman holds the crowd back the man attaches a hook to the huge bag of money that sits in the back of his truck. The ad headline offers the thought that "He must have replaced every Truck in his Fleet with a..REO". This ad is larger than my scanner bed so the outer edges of the ad will not be visible in the scanned view. |
September 10, 1951 Life magazine |
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$4.00 |
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| Reo |
1951 Reo Gold Comet Trucks - Full color 9 1/2" x 12 1/2" ad has a drawing of a Reo semi going through a mountain rather than over it like the other trucks have to do. The ad headline claims this truck is "Making mole hills out of mountains...". This ad is larger than my scanner bed so the outer edges of the ad will not be visible in the scanned view. |
October 22, 1951 Life magazine |
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$4.00 |
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| White |
1963 White Trucks - Black and white 7 3/4" x 10 3/4" ad for the quality built-in to all of their trucks. The ad has a picture of a completed White truck being inspected, over and under, by a large group of inspectors clad in white coats and holding clipboards and flashlights. The caption calls them "The hardest-to-please people we know (next to you)" and the ad says that "We pay them to find fault...so that you won't have any fault to find". They claim to have over 100 of them and beside checking the appearance they also run every item on the truck. |
November 23, 1962 Time magazine |
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