Colin Rush
05-01-2008, 08:49 PM
This is a series of books, with each series devoted to a specific marque. The title of greatest interest here is Relics of the Road #3: Impressive Internationals 1907-1947. This was written in 1975 by Gini Rice, and published by Truck Tracks, Incorporated out of Oregon City. This is heavily illustrated with very detailed black & white photos, as well as a number of hand-drawn illustrations of trucks by Ken Goudy, Junior. Almost all of the photos were provided by International Harvester, at a time before the Wisconsin Historical Archive got them. Many of the photos in this book I have not seen before. Perhaps they are in the archive, but many of them I have not ever seen on their website, so this books may be of interest to folks that feel they have seen it all.
This 174-page book chronicles the development of International trucks from their first release until after World War II. One of the more notable subjects is the program of development of their truck line. There is a very detailed narrative of the development of the company's first combustion engine by George Ellis at the Deering Works in 1889-1891 and first vehicle in 1892; Edward Johnston's development of a self-propelled vehicle at the McCormick Works in 1898; the purchase of the Keystone Company and their automobile program in 1905 and subsequent relocation back to the Chicago plant; and the release of the first Auto Buggy in 1907. There are a number of photos of the engine, chassis, and so on.
There is a chapter devoted to a trek across Africa in 1927 by one of the IH Vice Presidents C.N. King drove from Algiers to Nairobi in a 1927 IH Special Delivery truck that was converted into a safari body, in a trip that totalled over 6000 miles. There are also photos of the 1939 D-series Jungle Yachts that Attilio Gatti used on his 1939 African expedition to the Congo.
There are also a number of photos of military IH trucks. Many of them are for the M-5H-6 trucks, mostly the same ones seen on the Wisconsin Archive and other articles profiling them. However, there is one photo of an M-5-6, a WWII armored personnel carrier, an M-62, an M-51, an M-42, and an M-139, none of which I had seen before.
There are also some anecdotal information about IH trucks that apparently were gleaned from personal interviews with drivers in Oregon and Washington, judging from what I see in the text.
Any diehard IH truck history nut should get this book. It is one of the better ones I have read. The ISNB-10 is 1122692897 and the ISBN-13 is 978-1122692892.
For those that don't know, Ken Goudy is a retired truck driver, truck illustrator, truck book author, and he moderates and provides photos for the Hank's Truck Pictures website (http://www.hankstruckpictures.com/international.htm). He lives in Oregon City, Oregon. I believe he is a member of the local ATHS chapter. He also makes decals for 1/87-scale trucks (http://www.hankstruckpictures.com/ken_goudy_decals2.html), for those that like to build models or work with HO trains.
This 174-page book chronicles the development of International trucks from their first release until after World War II. One of the more notable subjects is the program of development of their truck line. There is a very detailed narrative of the development of the company's first combustion engine by George Ellis at the Deering Works in 1889-1891 and first vehicle in 1892; Edward Johnston's development of a self-propelled vehicle at the McCormick Works in 1898; the purchase of the Keystone Company and their automobile program in 1905 and subsequent relocation back to the Chicago plant; and the release of the first Auto Buggy in 1907. There are a number of photos of the engine, chassis, and so on.
There is a chapter devoted to a trek across Africa in 1927 by one of the IH Vice Presidents C.N. King drove from Algiers to Nairobi in a 1927 IH Special Delivery truck that was converted into a safari body, in a trip that totalled over 6000 miles. There are also photos of the 1939 D-series Jungle Yachts that Attilio Gatti used on his 1939 African expedition to the Congo.
There are also a number of photos of military IH trucks. Many of them are for the M-5H-6 trucks, mostly the same ones seen on the Wisconsin Archive and other articles profiling them. However, there is one photo of an M-5-6, a WWII armored personnel carrier, an M-62, an M-51, an M-42, and an M-139, none of which I had seen before.
There are also some anecdotal information about IH trucks that apparently were gleaned from personal interviews with drivers in Oregon and Washington, judging from what I see in the text.
Any diehard IH truck history nut should get this book. It is one of the better ones I have read. The ISNB-10 is 1122692897 and the ISBN-13 is 978-1122692892.
For those that don't know, Ken Goudy is a retired truck driver, truck illustrator, truck book author, and he moderates and provides photos for the Hank's Truck Pictures website (http://www.hankstruckpictures.com/international.htm). He lives in Oregon City, Oregon. I believe he is a member of the local ATHS chapter. He also makes decals for 1/87-scale trucks (http://www.hankstruckpictures.com/ken_goudy_decals2.html), for those that like to build models or work with HO trains.