Like passenger-car manufacturers, many truck makers change models each year, ballyhoo the new ones as the best ever. But truck makers are smaller, more numerous, less cooperative than auto makers. For seven years organizers have been trying to get them together in one big show, never succeeded. Last week, of some 75 makers, eight displayed their 1941 models at Manhattan's National Automobile Show, another eight at the New York World's Fair Maritime Building, others elsewhere.
Show or no show, truck manufacturers were in the midst of a record year last week. Thanks to...
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