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Barry R. Bertram
Softcover
128 pages
20 colour & 120 B&W illustrations
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At Work: White Trucks of the 1960s
$36.95
White Motor Company produced American trucks between 1919 and 1980 with its primary manufacturing facilities in Cleveland, Ohio. White offered a broad array of light, medium, and heavy-duty trucks before concentrating on the latter from the 1960s on. White fell on hard financial times and declared bankruptcy in 1980. This book reviews White medium and heavy-duty truck models in roughly the decade of the 1960s, including the 1500, 4000, 5000, 7400, and 9000 series.
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| Weight | 0.508 kg |
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| Dimensions | 21.6 × 26.7 × 1.3 cm |
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