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A little bit back, I gave you a look through the pages of a long-forgotten book, "American Trucking, a 75-Year Odyssey," by Robert M. Roll. It was published 30 years ago, and it's still a treat. Here are a couple more images for all of us who fondly remember the car hauling industry's past.
This kind of expresses what Hemmings could become someday, you never know, a home for presentation and retrospective on transport history in all its forms.  Let's peg this image in the mid-1950s. It shows a straight-frame Ford COE operated  by Gordons – no apostrophe – on the waterfront in Mobile, Alabama. Gordons was a big mid-South firm based in Memphis. I've never been to Mobile, but this salty scene makes me want to get there.
That outgrowth spreading from the cab of this 1948 GMC cab-over is a homemade fuel tank. Imagine trying to get him on the roads today. The sheet metal work was performed in the shops of John F. Ivory, a major household-goods mover that ran out of Detroit for many years. The founder's son, Jack Ivory, who passed away in 2004, was incidentally a world-ranked polo player.
Also from Detroit is this 1933 view of how new cars were delivered in lots of four, which was a huge deal back then. The vehicles are Dodges. The truck tractor, operated by Square Deal Cartage of Detroit, is likewise a Dodge, gasoline-fueled. Changes in federal overall-length laws eventually rendered combinations like this one obsolete.
Donnelly, J. (2009, November 5). Hauling through history. Retrieved from Hemmings Daily: https://www.hemmings.com/blog/2009/11/05/hauling-through-history/
In the early 1920s, over-the-road auto transporters proved an economical alternative to railway shipping. Since then, auto transport trucks have progressed through several stages of evolution, from flat trailers to ramped double-deckers and streamlined units. This chronological scrapbook of archival and contemporary photography documents the evolution of auto transporters over the last 75 years, while introductory text and detailed captions explain the development of these vehicles. Truck and automotive enthusiasts will enjoy the incredible photography showing haulers from several manufacturers filled with factory-fresh cars from every American automaker. I hope you enjoy the history of automobile hauling.
I could not read the information to give the appropriate APA citation, so the picture to the right is the book's cover. It was an exciting read. So I wanted to give it a plug as finding history in this industry is not easy. Enjoy
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