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Welding a Milk Truck

Date: 1949
Description: Welding a milk truck at the Heil Corporation in Milwaukee. The Heil company was founded by German-born Julius P. Heil in 1901. As the Heil Rail Joint Wel...
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Highway Commission Truck

Date: 1921
Description: Highway Commission dump truck photographed outside the Heil Company factory in Milwaukee. The truck was a Nash four-wheel drive model with the body built ...
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Enola the Welder

Date: 02 1943
Description: Enola O'Connell, the only woman welder at the Heil Company during World War II, working on gasoline trailer tanks. A 32-year-old widow and the mother of o...
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New Tanks for Fauerbach Brewing Co.

Date: 04 17 1934
Description: View across street towards two new tanks being delivered by the Heil Co. of Milwaukee on a Heil Company truck. The truck is parked in front of the Fauerbac...
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Evenaire Company

Date: 12 13 1949
Description: Two company trucks parked in front of the Evenaire Company "Controlled Temperature" building, located at 1976 Atwood Avenue. Photograph used in an advertis...
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Material Transit Company Truck

Date: 1939
Description: A man from the Material Transit Company drives an International D-50 dump truck to unload what appears to be gravel or rocks. There are houses on a hill in...
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Waukesha County Highway Department Snow Plow

Date: 1937
Description: Winter scene with an International D-70 truck owned by the Waukesha County Highway Department and outfitted with a scraper clearing snow from a rural road.
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Wisconsin Ice and Coal Company Truck

Date: 09 21 1937
Description: A man stands in a lift attached to the bed of an International Model DR-60 truck owned by the Wisconsin Ice and Coal Company. Another man stands atop a rai...
Historical Essay

Charles W. Nash and the Nash Motor Company

Learn about the strong influence Wisconsin held on the national automobile industry in the early-mid 20th Century.

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