New Larrabee Deyo Trucking Company, Whatever Happened To Them? Anyone E'er Heard Of Them?

“The fame of Binghamton is beingness carried to the far corners of the globe yesteryear its products, as well as peculiarly yesteryear the motor trucks which are made here.”

In 1919, this quote appeared inwards The Binghamton Press amongst an proclamation that the Larrabee-Deyo Motor Truck Co. had received large orders from New Zealand as well as Sweden. Business was booming for this local manufacturer, as well as amongst their trucks, “Made inwards Binghamton” was beingness heard to a greater extent than or less the world.

The novel society grew out of ii successful Binghamton manufacturing concerns. Sturtevant-Larrabee had a reputation for manufacturing high-quality horse-drawn wagons, carriages as well as sleighs since the 1870s. The Deyo-Macey Engine Co. built gasoline engines inwards a found on Washington Street. Now, amongst H.C. Larrabee equally president as well as R.H. Deyo vice president as well as full general manager, the novel society was advertised equally having “the wages of the services of men experienced inwards both the structure of gas engines as well as inwards wagon building.”

In 1923, nationally known cartoonist Johnny Gruelle came to town. The creator of Raggedy Ann as well as Andy characters, as well as the comic strip “Yapp’s Crossing,” Gruelle was inwards Binghamton to create got delivery of a custom Larrabee Speed Six Wagon “Coach De Lux.” Outfitted amongst seats that converted into bunks, mahogany cupboards, window curtains as well as a short-wave radio, it would serve equally a line of piece of employment solid on wheels for Gruelle as well as his household unit of measurement equally they embarked on a highly publicized cross-country adventure.

Following a large gild inwards 1925 to create Majestic taxicabs for New York City, sales steadily declined. Production of trucks continued, exactly the society was losing money.

The peachy depression killed it.

It seems that solely a few guys yet dear them, Roger Luther is one, as well as he has a website http://nyslandmarks.com/larrabee/  , as well as a collection of Larrabees

Local moving as well as storage society possessor James Kocak has a large collection of society memorabilia, equally good equally several trucks, including a 1923 burn truck. “My granddaddy ever had Larrabee trucks on his farm,” Kocak said. “As a boy, my begetter used to ride along equally he picked upwards milk from farms as well as delivered it to Crowley’s.”

H5N1 restored burn truck right away sits inwards a garage of the Binghamton Fire Department. Originally purchased inwards 1929, it was in conclusion retired inwards the mid-1960s. Later owned as well as restored yesteryear Jim VanHart, it was eventually donated yesteryear the VanHart household unit of measurement dorsum to the burn department.

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