Pacific Car and Foundry, also know as PACCAR, is the parent company of
Kenworth, Peterbuilt, Foden, Leyland and DAF trucks. They also own Braden
and Gearmatic Winch Companies.
They made the famous dragon wagon along with Sherman Tanks, railroad cars,
and all sorts of heavy equipment right here in Seattle.
Check out www.paccar.com for a company history.
Joe Garrett
cell 425-344-1402
Please note my new email address is
j.garrett@gte.net
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From: Military Vehicles Mailing List [mailto:mil-veh@mil-veh.org]On
Behalf Of Joe Foley
Sent: Sunday, May 06, 2001 1:42 PM
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Subject: [MV] What my Company did during the war.....
Eastman-Kodak brought aerial photography into
effective use. But photography is only 20% of their
business,......... then there's the chemicals.
Xerox wasn't born yet, I don't think.
Acme Electric, a transformer/power supply manufacturer
near here, still had the windows painted over in the
1970's.
Clark Industries, no telling what all they made, but
there is the Clark airborne dozer.
Worthington, compressors and ship fittings I would
guess.
Crosley, in Cleveland, made radios, proximity fuzes,
and a jeep prototype among many other things.
My father worked in the Buffalo shipyards welding up
new landing craft 12 hours/day 7 days/ week for almost
a year in 1941, then signed up.
He drove an M-26 from Pacific Car and Foundry.
Joe
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