in the other direction to the southwest in Macungie, PA, you'll find Mack trucks rolling off the assembly line. Mack has been a presence in Allentown since several years into the 20th century, and remains there now as the city is undergoing a major redevelopment and reinvestment particularly in the downtown and riverfront areas. Mack's story is an important part of American industry that's become ingrained in the culture even if they don't know much about the brand, anyone can tell you a Mack is a big, tough, American truck. It's especially significant in Pennsylvania's Lehigh Valley, which hosted a painful chapter in American industrial history not long ago about 10 mi. To view this listing on, see Pick of the Day.When reporters were at Mack Trucks' Allentown, PA customer facility recently, what the Mack folks didn't say was that they were going to slip in some of the really neat stuff: historic trucks, patriotic trucks and one with a very bad attitude. The 1923 Mack AB truck on offer is located in North Phoenix, Arizona. The plates showed a bull dog wearing the word “Mack” on its collar was illustrated chewing on a book titled Hauling Costs. Mack first used the Bulldog as its corporate emblem in 1921 with a metal plate riveted to each side of each truck’s cabin.
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They also built rail cars and locomotives until 1930.Īmong innovations the Mack brothers introduced were Gus Mack’s constant mesh system that protected gears from being damaged by inexperienced drivers, and Jack Mack’s selective feature that enabled drivers to shift from high to low and vice versa without going through all the intermedia speeds.īecause of their design and tenacious qualities, British soldiers nicknamed the Mack AC model trucks they used in World War I as the Bulldog Macks. Around 1905, however, they moved the business to Allentown, Pennsylvania, and began building trucks under the Manhattan brand name until 1911, when they applied their family name to their trucks. They produced “Manhattan” vehicles seating 10 to 30 people in wagonette, tonneau or tally-ho styles.
The Mack Brothers Company experimented with electric- and steam-powered motorcars, and unveiled a 17-seat “big car” at Madison Square Garden.
A year later, another brother, William, who had his own wagon-building business in Scranton, Pennsylvania, joined his brothers in Brooklyn. John “Jack” Mack went to work for carriage maker Fallesen & Berry in Brooklyn, New York, in 1890, and three years later he and his brother, Augustus, bought the company. Starts on first crank and drives,” the seller notes. The seller adds that the truck has a rust-free body and uncut frame and that it runs and drives. There’s a video in the advertisement that shows the engine running. “I had to buy the truck and get it running.” “I grew up working in a Mack truck dealership,” the seller says. So what truck is the Pick of the Day? It’s a 1923 Mack Model AB with a C-style cab. Although the private seller of the Pick of the Day is asking $111,000 in the vehicle’s advertisement on, that seller admits it is “tough to price the truck so I am accepting realistic offers and serious inquiries.”
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