Friday, June 27, 2014

Fageol & Peterbilt Trucks at the Pacific Northwest Truck Museum

IMG_2584 1930 Fageol Flatbed Truck at Antique Powerland in Brooks, Oregon on August 3, 2008
1930 Fageol Flatbed Truck on August 3, 2008

Fageol Motors was established in 1916 in Oakland, California. In addition to trucks, the company also built buses and farm tractors. The tractor business was sold to the Great Western Motors Company of San Jose, California around 1923.

IMG_2586 1930 Fageol Flatbed Truck at Antique Powerland in Brooks, Oregon on August 3, 2008
1930 Fageol Flatbed Truck on August 3, 2008

The Fageol Brothers left Fageol Motors in 1927 to form the Twin Coach Company, a bus manufacturer in Kent, Ohio.

IMG_8692 1930 Fageol Flatbed Truck at Antique Powerland in Brooks, Oregon on August 1, 2009
1930 Fageol Flatbed Truck on August 1, 2009

This 1930 Fageol Flatbed Truck from Tidewater Barge Line is powered by a Cummins engine and is owned by Ray Hickey.

IMG_5086 1930 Fageol Flatbed Truck at Antique Powerland in Brooks, Oregon on July 31, 2010
1930 Fageol Flatbed Truck on July 31, 2010

Fageol Motors went into receivership in 1932 and was reorganized as Fageol Truck and Coach.

IMG_2587 1934 Fageol Tractor at Antique Powerland in Brooks, Oregon on August 3, 2008
1934 Fageol Tractor on August 3, 2008

This 1934 Fageol Tractor is one of ten ordered & operated by Consolidated Truck Lines (later Consolidated Freight Lines and eventually Consolidated Freightways) that were the first all-aluminum trucks. It was built in 1934 in Oakland, California and is powered by a 150-horsepower Cummins HB engine, with an operating speed of 40-42 miles per hour.

IMG_2589 1934 Fageol Tractor at Antique Powerland in Brooks, Oregon on August 3, 2008
1934 Fageol Tractor on August 3, 2008

The shade on the radiator has a pull cord to raise and lower from inside the cab to cool the engine when it was down or heat the cab when up.

IMG_5094 1934 Fageol Tractor at Antique Powerland in Brooks, Oregon on July 31, 2010
1934 Fageol Tractor on July 31, 2010

This truck operated as a truck & trailer in Oregon, where the length limit at the time was 45 feet. Washington, Idaho and California's limit was 60 feet. The truck was donated to the museum by Ken Self.

IMG_5096 1934 Fageol Tractor at Antique Powerland in Brooks, Oregon on July 31, 2010
1934 Fageol Tractor on July 31, 2010

In 1938 the Fageol factory and its contents were purchased by T. A. Peterman from Tacoma, Washington, who was developing his own log truck chassis. Peterman built the first Peterbilt trucks in 1939.

IMG_2647 1946 Peterbilt Water Truck at Antique Powerland in Brooks, Oregon on August 3, 2008
1946 Peterbilt Water Truck on August 3, 2008

This 1946 Peterbilt Water Truck, powered by a Cummins NH200 engine, is driven around the grounds of Antique Powerland during the Great Oregon Steam-Up, spaying down the gravel to keep down dust.

IMG_8681 1956 Peterbilt Model 351 Flatbed Truck at Antique Powerland in Brooks, Oregon on August 1, 2009
1956 Peterbilt Model 351 Flatbed Truck on August 1, 2009

This 1956 Peterbilt Model 351 Flatbed was originally used as a log truck in Springfield, Oregon for a decade. It was sold to a Southern Washington fleet where it worked for two years before being purchased by a fleet in Seneca, Oregon, where it's log bunks were removed and a fifth wheel was installed so it could pull a lowboy trailer hauling logging equipment in eastern Oregon.

IMG_5066 1956 Peterbilt Model 351 Flatbed Truck at Antique Powerland in Brooks, Oregon on July 31, 2010
1956 Peterbilt Model 351 Flatbed Truck on August 1, 2009

Bill & Betty Stanaland bought the truck from a Wilsonville dealership and restored it as a flatbed at their home in Medford, Oregon.

IMG_2643 1957 Peterbilt Model 280 Tractor at Antique Powerland in Brooks, Oregon on August 3, 2008
1957 Peterbilt Model 280 Tractor on August 3, 2008

This 1957 Peterbilt Model 280 Tractor spent its working life in Northern California hauling fresh produce, especially tomatoes, hence the orange color. The Peterbilt Model 280/350 was built from 1949 to 1957 and was known as a "High Mount" because the hood and radiator were several inches taller than earlier models. It was eventually replaced by the lighter weight "Needle-Nose" Model 281/351 introduced in 1954 and built through the 1960s. Distinguishing features of the 280/350 were skirted front fenders with integrated running boards and a "hard nose" grill shell with vertical shutters.

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