Very cherrie Plymouths!

[JIPJOBXX]

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y4/1942dodge/Acarcarier.jpg

Edited January 23, 2013 by JIPJOBXX

[Young Ed]

 And being hauled by a 41-47 dodge cab over engine.

[dudford]

Call me strange but I think I prefer the COE

[Daliant.]

I wonder if any of those cars are still around.

[Rustychucks]

I wonder if any of those cars are still around.

Well aren't you a funny guy. Thank the gods there are still beauties like that still around.

[BobT-47P15]

That picture does show you one thing.........that some P15s were shipped from the factory with those white metal

wheel trim rings to give the effect of having whitewalls......as whitewalls were either few or nonexistant right then. 

(I'm presuming these were new cars from the factory.)

 

Looks as if a window is rolled down on a couple of them.........

 

Wonder what those signs in the windows say.......I don't think they had window stickers as

we know them back then.

Edited January 24, 2013 by BobT-47P15

[Niel Hoback]

 The white wheel covers I've used on P-15's were actually made of plastic. They yellowed with age and cracked easily. 

[frankieflathead]

On a classic, streamlined, Art Deco styled MHS (Mechanical Handling Systems) trailer.

Edited January 25, 2013 by frankieflathead

[Frank Elder]

[Frank Elder]

[Frank Elder]

[Frank Elder]

[grassfiddler]

Very cool pics! Thank you for posting them.

[frankieflathead]

And a few more...

Edited January 25, 2013 by frankieflathead

[frankieflathead]

 

In the years before Dodge built their own COE trucks, they contracted with an outside supplier for the cabs. This is one of those trucks. Brownie points to whoever knows the name of the company, and extra credit if you know where the company was located.

Edited January 25, 2013 by frankieflathead

[frankieflathead]

Oh, the shame! WW II Power Wagons being hauled by a........Chivvy!

[Labrauer]

Daliant there are plenty of those P15's around in fact I have the two very ones that are on the top of the trailer. The 48 Plymouth 4 door sedan and the 48 plymouth coupe. I love the two cars.

Larry

 

[Young Ed]

In the years before Dodge built their own COE trucks, they contracted with an outside supplier for the cabs. This is one of those trucks. Brownie points to whoever knows the name of the company, and extra credit if you know where the company was located.

 

Easy Peasy. Montpellier. I do not know where the company was located unless it was in Montpellier.

[frankieflathead]

Easy Peasy. Montpellier. I do not know where the company was located unless it was in Montpellier.

You got it! And the plant was in Montpelier, Ohio.

[Desotodav]

I came across this photo a while ago somewhere on the internet and didn't see it shown in the photos above...

 

Desotodav

[frankieflathead]

I came across this photo a while ago somewhere on the internet and didn't see it shown in the photos above...

 

Desotodav

 

Nice!

[Uncle-Pekka]

Top notch photos! Thanks for sharing, mates.

Now I am in a fever for the early 40's COE trucks!

 

I suppose the one with the driver standing on bumper to check radiator level is 1940?

The same truck model in the photo with four trucks in a line hauling new 1941 Plymouths to dealers.

 

What year of the truck with 1939 on trailer rear? (The one Frank tells is Montpellier cab)

 

What is the plate on left side of license plate? (The trucks have two plates - why?)

[Young Ed]

Top notch photos! Thanks for sharing, mates.

Now I am in a fever for the early 40's COE trucks!

 

I suppose the one with the driver standing on bumper to check radiator level is 1940?

The same truck model in the photo with four trucks in a line hauling new 1941 Plymouths to dealers.

 

What year of the truck with 1939 on trailer rear? (The one Frank tells is Montpellier cab)

 

What is the plate on left side of license plate? (The trucks have two plates - why?)

 

The 40s COEs are 40-47s. In the shot with 4 of them you can just make out the second one from the left doesn't have cowl lights and instead the little parking lights on top of the headlight buckets. The early ones didn't have the little side access doors but I'm not sure where the cutoff is. Yes it looks like the shot of the guy standing on the bumper is also a 40. You can see no cowl lights, little parking lights, and no access doors. The montpelier one should be late 30s but I don't know the exact year.

[Uncle-Pekka]

Thanks for info, Ed.
Really cool trucks. I recall a movie "They drive by night", I think there were this age COE trucks as in leading role...
 

 

 

Edited January 26, 2013 by Uncle-Pekka

[frankieflathead]

What year of the truck with 1939 on trailer rear? (The one Frank tells is Montpellier cab)

 

What is the plate on left side of license plate? (The trucks have two plates - why?)

 

Dodge Truck used Montpelier cabs for three years, '37-'39. They built their first in house COE in 1940. The one Frank's pic is a '37.

 

My recollection about the multiple plates on these trucks is that companies engaged in interstate commerce had to pay road use and/or fuel taxes for each truck they operated in each individual state. While there is only one registration plate per truck, these other tags were issued when the fees were paid. The lettering across the front bumper serves the same purpose from Pennsylvania, I think. Such regulations were a source of incredible paperwork headaches for owner/operators back in them days.

 

P.S. I really like the look of the 1957-9 COE's, too. And, of course, these were available with the Power Giant Hemi. Note the V-8 emblem on the nose of this one.

 

Edited January 26, 2013 by frankieflathead