1912 Electrical Truck, Damn, It's Big! It's A Ct Electric, The Commercial Truck Society Of Philadelphia From Only Almost 1908 To 1927. That Double Steering Wheel Is The Unique Identifying Visual Aid. This I Was Saved By Times A Publishing Society For Silent Early Morning Delivery Upwardly To 1962

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The Commercial Truck Company operated inwards Philadelphia Pennsylvania inward improver to produced large electrical trucks from more than or less 1908 to 1927.

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They sold twenty-two electrical powered vehicles to Curtis Publishing, 2 of which were used to haul coal to bathroom downward boilers for found operations.

The other 20 were randomly used daily to haul paper inward improver to to distribute magazines such every chip Jack inward improver to Jill, Ladies Home Journal, inward improver to The Saturday Evening Post. These vehicles slipped silently into the streets each solar daytime inwards the early morning time hours never awakening their customers. These trucks received the best of attention beingness serviced inwards the Curtis warehouse subsequently each role inward improver to were charged more than or less vi hours per day.

This truck was Old Number 8 inward improver to ane of the showtime delivered to the publishing company.

The Model F-5 flatbed was rated at five tons only regularly carried inwards excess of 10 tons, expert beyond its stated capacity. Each woods spoke cycle has its ain motor inward improver to used a solid-rubber tire that lasted for an extremely long time. Unloaded, the truck could locomote at 12 miles per hour, which was 2 miles over the speed boundary at that time.

There are less than xv of these electrical trucks left inwards the the world inward improver to actually few convey been restored because of the complexity of the electrical system.

Steve remembered that he'd posted a photograph of ane of these on Shorpy years ago