Check this truck out

[stakeside]

Stopped by Restoration Supply while in San Diego and found this truck. Not only a parts place but a 1st class restoration shop.

This is a customers truck. The grandson of the original company owner is having his grandfathers factory truck know as a “Gotferdson” restored. Has a “Buda” engine.

Edited July 28, 2018 by stakeside (see edit history)

[John_S_in_Penna]

Thanks for sharing.  I know the makes of cars very well,

but there are some truck manufacturers--such as this--

I don't know at all.

 

Who can tell us more about Gotfredson trucks?

 

 

Edited July 30, 2018 by John_S_in_Penna (see edit history)

[1939_Buick]

http://www.gotfredson.org/

 

http://www.coachbuilt.com/bui/g/gotfredson/gotfredson.htm

 

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Primarily known today as the founder of a Detroit, Mich./Walkerville, Ont.-based truck manufacturer that bore his surname, Benjamin Gotfredson (b. Feb. 14, 1863 d. Jan. 23, 1938) also served as president of the Saxon Motor Car Co. and owned a handful of businesses that were all involved in the manufacture of automobiles. In addition to producing buses, taxis, trucks and trailers, Gotfredson-owned firms trimmed and painted bodies for Saxon, Studebaker and Ford, manufactured coachwork for Wills St. Claire, Jewett (Paige –Detroit) and Peerless, and distributed Cummins Diesel engines.

 

Edited July 30, 2018 by 1939_Buick
another link (see edit history)

[joe_padavano]

That's very cool. Thanks for posting it. I love learning about these older, less-well-known vehicles.

[C Carl]

Belongs to Bernie Long.  -  Carl 

 

 

[dictator27]

KA story about Gotfredson buses.  At the start of WW2 in 1939 the transit fleet in Vancouver, British Columbia included a number of Gotfredsons.  When most of the bus drivers volunteered for the armed forces, women replaced them.  Apparently they found the Gotfredsons difficult to drive because of a very heavy clutch and would do their entire routes in low gear.

[8E45E]

Here is a Gotfredson fire truck with Bickle equipment body:  http://forum.studebakerdriversclub.com/showthread.php?62012-Orphan-of-the-Day-05-27-1929-Gotfredson-Bickle

 

Craig