A great number of tractors such as these as well as straight trucks were on the road during WW2. I remember seeing 2-3 chained together in order to climb the mountains with heavy loads and low horsepower. The open cab configuration was not a rarity, during winter the drivers would look three times their size due too extra clothing. Some brand names I remember, Autocar, Fageol ,Mack, Oshkosh and Packard .
That is because there were no brake lines of air supply to the trailers. Leper trailers had no brakes!. I still have my grandpa's 1926 Kenworth and the Leper trailer made in 1927. Both are now restored after an 8 year project.
It was a reverse setup from the later trucks. The fifth wheel had a pin that would slide through a slot in the front of the trailer. The pin made contact with a ram that would actually move the landing gear back and upwards for traveling. This system was very handy especially if you were using the trucks and trailers for like interplant hauling or having to relocate a lot of trailers in a day. I actually drove trucks like this for a couple of years back in 1979-80 hauling IBM Endicott NY. We had 20 trailers that were 20 ft long and 3 tractors that were reverse set up.
That was great. I've seen plenty of pictures, but never film. Thanks for sharing. I've been driving for thirty five years, yet I never tire of these types of videos.
@@Romeo_GR I just know from being a history buff of sorts, I can't give you specifics. I do know that at this time a lot of formerly steam powered fire engines had been converted to being tractor drawn from horse drawn though.
The trailers are actually pretty cool. I like the self-retracting landing gear. I get really tired of wrestling with landing gear cranks on modern semis, haha.
That first truck was an asphalt distributor. I did road paving for a couple years in the 2000s. The technology has not really changed much since this video.
I drive tankers and this 1st one is just beautiful..I love these old trucks......and because of them we have what we have today...so imagine driving this open cab in the rain or the snow for .10 cents an hour....totally nuts!! Still love these old rigs though.
great old footage.could you imagine spending 10 hours in one of those trucks.hats off to the drivers.im sure they didnt live too long without permenant pain issues.they make a current freight shaker look like a rolls royce.
I’ve been driving tractor trailer for over 40 years. Don’t know if I would have made 20 years in one of those. Great video thanks to whoever uploaded it.
Right, even though their range was much smaller it must have been very rough on the body. but things were very localized back then we didn't even have the interstate system til the 50's. it was still the railways that ruled the day for long-haul..
Cool video, Armstrong steering at its best. The Lapeer Trailer Company was in business from 1919-1928, then became the Lapeer Trailer Corporation on July 1, 1928, which was a division of Trailer Company of America until 1932.
That was always the problem with trucks or any vehicles of that era, and well after. it took until the 60's before they even considered making passenger cars stop well. Henry Ford was always against hydraulic brakes, he said famously "The safety of steel, from pedal to wheel." eventually he relented of course.. but I get it. I don't completely trust todays electric steering. a mechanical connection is safest imo.
Grandpa said these were not the easiest trucks to operate, he was working for the lumber mill after WWl Imagine, may have been old to us but very clever, 90% of innovation was already there
👍👌👏 Simply fantastic! My grandfather and his father drove such vehicles (axles powerd with enormous chaines). Thanks a lot for uploading and sharing this great view into the past. Best regards, luck and health.
Enjoyed your film clips the one truck said MILKY WAY this caught my eye I live in Lynden wash state a dairy area and we have a trucking firm that hauls milk and other liquids by same name .thank you .
O-H-I-O Porter greetings 🇺🇸 My dad started trucking in the 1930s. He mostly had straight trucks when he started, but he did get into semi trucks eventually. Goes to show you that those super single tires were around even back then. Yeah, the shaking video didn’t help my eyes, but it was well worth watching this. I pulled some old Dorsey trailers from the 40-50s that had similar landing gear that would retract when you backed under the trailer. You sure had to make sure that they latched when you started to pull away with them. I bet many a trailer was dropped onto the ground back in those days! Hmm! Wonderful film!!! Good stuff! 🥰😎✌️
I drove a 2020 Mack Anthem back in those days. Everyone would run away from me because they thought something from out of this world was coming. Good days. My time machine is broke for now.
my dad started his driving career in trucks like these. he would have loved this video. i also drove for almost 30 years, but never in such primitive, uncomfortable trucks. they were real men, back then.
I've often thought of how much they were able to get done back then with so much less. Everything was small, trucks and trailers, heavy equipment. Heck, even the plates people ate from were small.
This was quite fascinating. It seems to have picked up some extracts from someone's home movie! I think the third truck-trailer film in the railroad yard may have been a Chevrolet, but couldn't identify the other two.
Фильму лет 100, а концепция седельного тягача и полуприцепа осталась неизменной. Я сейчас такой же трал таскаю, чуть длиньше, чуть шире и осей сзади три. И кузовочек имеется, и сходни сзади. Только система автоматического расцепа в России не нашла своего признания. На части тягачей из Америки такая функция есть, но мало кто пользуется.
In the late 1950's, Century 21 Shows still used some trailers with the solid rubber and wood spoked wheels. They ran the Midway at the Iowa State Fair and traveled a circuit.
@@huntermossakajunkerman9646 True - but those solid tyres were notoriously prone to skidding on cobbles in wet weather - hence one suggested origin of the English expression 'gone for a burton' - Burton's Tailors shops were often on corner sites, and a prime target!
automatic gear then but not now?? i used one of these type trailers in the 70s if it was kept clean worked ok. needed better safety to make sure the gear latched before pin released.
At least they wouldn't drop trailers back then never had it happened to me but seen enough of it. Bin driving since 18 and will probably die in the sleeper 🐱
That’s the first time I’ve seen automatic landing gear. Today I can understand why they did away with it. Seems drivers need an incentive to not be lazy. it’s not that I’m just some nobody being judgmental,I am a driver. Also, it’s too easy for equipment to break down. That would leave a lot of trailers unretrievable.
Imagine these brill creme hacks blind siding a 53 foot trailer with a sleeper cab into Bachman trains off of Erie Ave in North Philly , buses and cars not respecting you, coming both ways ,these hacks would have a problem, no spotters to help u, did this a hundred times!!
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A great number of tractors such as these as well as straight trucks were on the road during WW2. I remember seeing 2-3 chained together in order to climb the mountains with heavy loads and low horsepower. The open cab configuration was not a rarity, during winter the drivers would look three times their size due too extra clothing.
Some brand names I remember, Autocar, Fageol ,Mack, Oshkosh and Packard .
Wow! This was almost 100 years ago and they had a way of dropping trailers and picking trailers up without getting off the vehicle amazing.
That is because there were no brake lines of air supply to the trailers. Leper trailers had no brakes!. I still have my grandpa's 1926 Kenworth and the Leper trailer made in 1927. Both are now restored after an 8 year project.
@@robertreisner6119 that is awesome. I love how things were made back then.
It was a reverse setup from the later trucks. The fifth wheel had a pin that would slide through a slot in the front of the trailer. The pin made contact with a ram that would actually move the landing gear back and upwards for traveling. This system was very handy especially if you were using the trucks and trailers for like interplant hauling or having to relocate a lot of trailers in a day. I actually drove trucks like this for a couple of years back in 1979-80 hauling
IBM Endicott NY. We had 20 trailers that were 20 ft long and 3 tractors that were reverse set up.
Thanks Gary I forgot to mention that. Pins were the anchoring system for these early trailers.
That's handy. Why hand crank ing still going on .
Solid tires,no power steering,just a large steering wheel and a lot of upper body strength.
right no hydraulic steering what a night mare, the wheel hits bumps and turn left or right.
Looks like a combination truck/tractor/hotrod.
Yeah I like the stance of it and the trucks rear wheel tires seems to be in low profile
That was great. I've seen plenty of pictures, but never film. Thanks for sharing. I've been driving for thirty five years, yet I never tire of these types of videos.
I feel so bad we are losing so much old footage everyday , even now with digital rot of stored data .
Simply....I didn't know that there were semis in those years! Wonderful video!!
Relatively few...
@@ffjsb I 've looked for in internet but I didn't find who or which company was the first to construct a semi-truck. You have any information?
@@Romeo_GR I just know from being a history buff of sorts, I can't give you specifics. I do know that at this time a lot of formerly steam powered fire engines had been converted to being tractor drawn from horse drawn though.
Well done! Restoring old film is tough and really old film even harder!!!
The trailers are actually pretty cool. I like the self-retracting landing gear. I get really tired of wrestling with landing gear cranks on modern semis, haha.
- That looks like solid rubber tires on the first truck.
- They used to spray our shell street with that tar substance in the 1950s.
Took them a while longer to figure out the drivers needed weather protection.
They even had super singles long ago. Great video.
That first truck was an asphalt distributor. I did road paving for a couple years in the 2000s. The technology has not really changed much since this video.
my grandfather (1885-1967) was a proponent of solid tires. at first, i thought he was making it up.
I drive tankers and this 1st one is just beautiful..I love these old trucks......and because of them we have what we have today...so imagine driving this open cab in the rain or the snow for .10 cents an hour....totally nuts!! Still love these old rigs though.
great old footage.could you imagine spending 10 hours in one of those trucks.hats off to the drivers.im sure they didnt live too long without permenant pain issues.they make a current freight shaker look like a rolls royce.
Lol you got that right it’s their sacrifice then for our comfort today
Look at the size of those solid rubber tires 😄👍👍🇺🇸
Fantastic. Thank you for sharing with us modern day drivers.
I’ve been driving tractor trailer for over 40 years. Don’t know if I would have made 20 years in one of those. Great video thanks to whoever uploaded it.
Right, even though their range was much smaller it must have been very rough on the body. but things were very localized back then we didn't even have the interstate system til the 50's. it was still the railways that ruled the day for long-haul..
somebody might say the same thing about the equipment that we're driving a hundred years from now. that is if they still have humans behind the wheel
Cool video, Armstrong steering at its best. The Lapeer Trailer Company was in business from 1919-1928, then became the Lapeer Trailer Corporation on July 1, 1928, which was a division of Trailer Company of America until 1932.
The super single tires, impressive on the rear
3:40 interesting landing gear lifter.
All that and only one axle with brakes!
That was always the problem with trucks or any vehicles of that era, and well after. it took until the 60's before they even considered making passenger cars stop well. Henry Ford was always against hydraulic brakes, he said famously "The safety of steel, from pedal to wheel." eventually he relented of course.. but I get it. I don't completely trust todays electric steering. a mechanical connection is safest imo.
Too cool thank you for sharing
Grandpa said these were not the easiest trucks to operate, he was working for the lumber mill after WWl Imagine, may have been old to us but very clever, 90% of innovation was already there
wow. what a gem.
This is really beautiful to watch.
Thanks for sharing.
That's awesome great video thanks for sharing. The truck has came a long way. I like the old school truck it was Simple
I am lucky enough to watch this video, superb 👍
Idk why but this gives me joy!
👍👌👏 Simply fantastic! My grandfather and his father drove such vehicles (axles powerd with enormous chaines).
Thanks a lot for uploading and sharing this great view into the past.
Best regards, luck and health.
As a mechanic, if I were to use the term "beautifully dangerous", it would apply to those designs. Jay Leno has some I believe..
I drove for Railway Express and they still used them in the 1960s. It was easy to drop the trailer on its nose when unhooking.
Enjoyed your film clips the one truck said MILKY WAY this caught my eye I live in Lynden wash state a dairy area and we have a trucking firm that hauls milk and other liquids by same name .thank you .
O-H-I-O Porter greetings 🇺🇸 My dad started trucking in the 1930s. He mostly had straight trucks when he started, but he did get into semi trucks eventually. Goes to show you that those super single tires were around even back then. Yeah, the shaking video didn’t help my eyes, but it was well worth watching this. I pulled some old Dorsey trailers from the 40-50s that had similar landing gear that would retract when you backed under the trailer. You sure had to make sure that they latched when you started to pull away with them. I bet many a trailer was dropped onto the ground back in those days! Hmm! Wonderful film!!! Good stuff! 🥰😎✌️
I drove a 2020 Mack Anthem back in those days. Everyone would run away from me because they thought something from out of this world was coming. Good days. My time machine is broke for now.
I love the bitumen tanker
Imagens maguinifica, sou apaixonado por vídeo antigos. Parabéns Rio Grande do Sul tchê 🇧🇷🇧🇷
my dad started his driving career in trucks like these. he would have loved this video. i also drove for almost 30 years, but never in such primitive, uncomfortable trucks. they were real men, back then.
A fantastic video
I've often thought of how much they were able to get done back then with so much less. Everything was small, trucks and trailers, heavy equipment. Heck, even the plates people ate from were small.
Muy bonita música acordé al vídeo de la época saludos desde 🇲🇽👍👍😷✌️👌
Awsome video thank you
Cool video history....that piano player is awesome
This was quite fascinating. It seems to have picked up some extracts from someone's home movie! I think the third truck-trailer film in the railroad yard may have been a Chevrolet, but couldn't identify the other two.
I think the first truck was an Autocar.
Looks like a similar earlier version of the scammell tuck away leg idea
Makes my Cabover seem like a modern marvel 😂
Nice video and a thumbs up.
Those guys figured it all out long before we did.
Imagine trying to back these up with solid tires and no power 😳
Before the Motor Law, people operated those trucks. They were powered by internal combustion of petrol. It's said they made an oddly pleasant sound.
Fantastic. For such an old film, it was quite good. I’ve seen worse.
Thanks for posting this. Very interesting.
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Darn good music ....i will now replay lol.
Prob a lot of these drivers were former freight wagon teamsters.. these old trucks were a luxery to them.. real men..!
The first angry supertruckers.
The long haul freight went by train then. These would work from train yard warehouses to delivery. Chain drive Mack at 5:13
My gosh.....no windshield, no heat, hard rubber tires, no power anything. No thanks!
And sometimes no doors. Note the Dukes of Hazzard entrance at 5.22.
Solid rubber tires and little to no suspension!! Yes! I like to drive one 11 hours a day!!
Give this to NASS and let him colorize it!
Some of those trucks have solid rubber tires. When did inflatable tires come into use?
Wonder how many of those kids fishing were either ww1 or ww2 Veterans....food for thought
Like that high tech auto landing gear.
Фильму лет 100, а концепция седельного тягача и полуприцепа осталась неизменной. Я сейчас такой же трал таскаю, чуть длиньше, чуть шире и осей сзади три. И кузовочек имеется, и сходни сзади. Только система автоматического расцепа в России не нашла своего признания. На части тягачей из Америки такая функция есть, но мало кто пользуется.
@3:53 I do believe that guy is all chromed up under the hood.
Looks like the first 5th wheel hitch.
Tougher men back then for sure
Those tires must have been hard as shit to mount. Prolly took hours if not days for a new rim lmao
But on a positive note at least you wouldn't have blowouts.
@@huntermossakajunkerman9646 No, you'd just have your entire wheel collapse and fold up like a crumbled piece of paper :D
In the late 1950's, Century 21 Shows still used some trailers with the solid rubber and wood spoked wheels. They ran the Midway at the Iowa State Fair and traveled a circuit.
@@huntermossakajunkerman9646 True - but those solid tyres were notoriously prone to skidding on cobbles in wet weather - hence one suggested origin of the English expression 'gone for a burton' - Burton's Tailors shops were often on corner sites, and a prime target!
No air ride no power steering
Rode like shit solid rubber tires !
Slow ass gas engines
It was all they had back then. Unless they were rich.
@@huntermossakajunkerman9646 I know
awesome
Show video 👍😎🇧🇷
Those looked like solid rubber tires.
Great!
I have been driving trucks since 1975 and I don't know where the hell I am.....
An artic lorry 100 years ago
automatic gear then but not now?? i used one of these type trailers in the 70s if it was kept clean worked ok. needed better safety to make sure the gear latched before pin released.
Imagine driving an open air cab truck on tje highways today?
those tires probably never went flat
Nice that you have that video?
very cool
Believe it that they were actually in a hurry back then...
no hydraulic steering if you were on a bumpy road the wheels turn left or right
they are spraying 100% pure dioxin, and this is TImes Beach, MO.
And nary a diesel bear anywhere to be found....the good old days!!
They must have tried rear steer with that hook up. If only to see what it was like? It’s just too easy to hook up.
☺️😋 that's so cool, how's that coupling pretty neat
Anyone notice the lack of glad hands and air lines on these rigs?
Why were the words on the trailer mirror reversed?
16mm film is small, and maybe they didn’t realize it was reversed when it was telecined (converted to digital).
How about chains hanging down to touch the road from petroleum trucks?
Wowwwwwww😯
no cup holder ..chuckle
we're is the turbo Diesel????
So cool I would loved be borne back then I love this
At least they wouldn't drop trailers back then never had it happened to me but seen enough of it. Bin driving since 18 and will probably die in the sleeper 🐱
Didn't see anyone wearing flip flops.
💈FUSCÃOPRETO💈
I think that first truck is spraying slurry on the asphalt.
What about trailer's breaks?
Nobody uses brakes anymore. LOL
That’s the first time I’ve seen automatic landing gear. Today I can understand why they did away with it. Seems drivers need an incentive to not be lazy. it’s not that I’m just some nobody being judgmental,I am a driver. Also, it’s too easy for equipment to break down. That would leave a lot of trailers unretrievable.
If’n they only knew what they were setting into motion, they would’ve stuck with horse & cart & oxen.
Imagine these brill creme hacks blind siding a 53 foot trailer with a sleeper cab into Bachman trains off of Erie Ave in North Philly , buses and cars not respecting you, coming both ways ,these hacks would have a problem, no spotters to help u, did this a hundred times!!
🙂👍👍👍
3:21 Original rat rod
No power stearing here fokes
Did Boardwalk Empire bring anyone else here?