Peterbilt
The Peterbilt Motors Company is an American company. It makes medium or heavy duty Class 5 through 8 trucks. The Peterbilt company started making trucks in 1939 and built 15 trucks that year.[1] Their semi-trucks are made in different styles.
History
The company can trace its roots to the Fageol Motor Company.[2] It was a regional truck maker that started in Oakland, California in 1916. The company made automobiles, trucks and tractors. The company made trucks that could stand up to the tough conditions of the deserts and mountains of the western United States.[2] In 1923 they shut down all other products to concentrate on trucks. They made trucks from the 1920s and 1930s. Due to the Great Depression, the company went into bankruptcy in 1932.[2] It kept operating under control of its creditors but by 1938 was about to shut down.[2] In 1939 the company assets were purchased by T.A. Peterman, a logger and businessman from Tacoma, Washington.[2] The name Peterbilt was already being used by one of his wood products companies and was used for his new truck manufacturing company.[2]
Peterbilt Media
- 1946 Peterbilt (20522846663).jpg
Car show in Sedro-Woolley, Washington. You see old Kenworth and Peterbilts at this show because the Paccar engineering and testing facility is nearby. This flatbed was probably used to haul finished lumber from the many mills in the area.
- 1939 Peterbilt 334 truck.jpg
1939 Peterbilt Model 334 (1 of 2 built 1939)
- 1954 Peterbilt 351 flatbed truck (18971058239).jpg
1954 Model 351 (one of the first red-oval trucks)
- Peterbuilt 126.jpg
Peterbilt Truck
- Peterbilt 310 - Ecoterra -R155.jpg
Peterbilt 310.
- 1976-80 Peterbilt 282, R.E. Shaver.jpg
Peterbilt 282 (352 single-axle) COE
- Peterbilt Model 397.jpg
1980 Peterbilt 397 (largest Peterbilt ever built)
- Peterbilt 362.jpg
1980s Peterbilt 362 cabover (COE)
- Bakersfield, (CA) Truck Peterbilt at Flying J Travel Plaza (en2016) (4).JPG
Bakersfield, Peterbilt truck at Flying J Travel Plaza (California. USA) en 2016 (USA).
- 1st Annual Fresno Lesbian-Gay Pride '91 (18227072489).jpg
Peterbilt 200 Mid-Ranger COE
References
Other websites
- Peterbuilt home page Archived 2013-02-09 at the Wayback Machine
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