Brian Austin Posted March 14, 2021 Share Posted March 14, 2021 https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uiug.30112113438235&view=thumb&seq=4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kromolly Posted March 14, 2021 Share Posted March 14, 2021 Cool history. Check out the story of Fageol trucks, which was later acquired by T. A. Peterman to become Peterbilt. Fageol did some aluminum "weight-saving" construction in the 1930s, and IIRC they built a nearly all aluminum frame & body truck that ultimately did not save the amount of weight expected. I'll have to scour my magazine archives for that story. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Bartrop Posted March 14, 2021 Share Posted March 14, 2021 Pierce-Arrow was using cast aluminum bodies as early as 1904. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
misterNNL Posted March 30, 2021 Share Posted March 30, 2021 Cool history and very informative. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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