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

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The Commercial Truck Company operated inwards Philadelphia Pennsylvania inwards add-on 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 plough over the axe downward boilers for found operations.

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

This truck was Old Number 8 inwards add-on to ane of the get-go delivered to the publishing company.

The Model F-5 flatbed was rated at five tons simply regularly carried inwards excess of ten tons, practiced beyond its stated capacity. Each woods spoke wheel has its ain motor inwards add-on 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 inwards add-on 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