hand trucks
white trucks of the 1950s
white motor company was a major producer of american trucks between 1919 and 1980 with its primary manufacturing facilities in cleveland ohio . the company began as a sewing machine manufacturing concern founded in 1876 by thomas h. white and expanded by his sons into steam and gasoline powered automobiles ; however it was in the trucking field that white made its mark . during its production years white offered a broad array of light medium and heavy duty trucks before concentrating on the latter from the 1960s on . in addition to its brand name white purchased and or marketed a litany of other trucking manufacturers including reo diamond t diamond reo autocar whitehorse pdq western star and white freightliner trucks . white fell on hard financial times and declared bankruptcy in 1980 . the named lived on for awhile in the 1980s under the parentage of corporate giant volvo . this book reviews white medium and heavy duty truck models in roughly the decade of the 1950s including the wc 3000 4000 5000 and 9000 series .