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| Author: | zephyrus [ Thu Jul 16, 2020 1:32 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Brill and Service Motor Truck Company |
Doing some research on self-propelled gas cars of the 1920s. I've been a number of cars built by Service Motor Truck Company of Wabash, IL that also list Brill. I've been told that Service Motor Truck was a Brill subsidiary and other info I have seems to indicate Brill was the contract body builder while SMT installed the power train. Anyone know any info on this? I did several internet searches but came up with little clarifying info. Thank you! |
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| Author: | Brian Norden [ Thu Jul 16, 2020 2:11 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Brill and Service Motor Truck Company |
A good source would probably be the book Interurbans Without Wires: The rail motorcar in the United States by Edmund Keilty and published by Interurbans Press in 1979. My copy is boxed up, otherwise I'd have checked it. As I recall Keilty lists all the known builders with a short history of each, etc. There were two follow up books with railroad rosters: Doodlebug Country: The Rail Motorcar on the Class 1 Railroads of the United States and The Short Line Doodlebug Galloping Geese and Other Railcritters |
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| Author: | PMC [ Thu Jul 16, 2020 9:44 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Brill and Service Motor Truck Company |
You mean Wabash IN: https://forums.aaca.org/topic/254609-se ... h-indiana/ "Service Motor Trucks were an assembled truck built in Wabash, IN. Service merged with other truck company in Lima Ohio and moved manufacturing (likely parts) to Relay, Garford, & Commerce in Lima Ohio about 1926. The Service factory sat empty then in 1936 General Tire and Rubber Co occupied factory, I worked at that factory for about 20 years and it closed in 2007 as GenCorp Automotive, factory was razed a few years ago. Appreciate any info on this service truck or any other solid rubber wood spoke wheels. Wabash County museum has a restored Service truck on display and very good library of information." |
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