Until last week, executives of Reo Motors, Inc. of Lansing, Mich, thought that the U.S. Post Office Department was going to advertise their trucks as openly as Songwriters Vincent Bryan and Gus Edwards once publicized the Oldsmobile.* The design for a special commemorative stamp, planned to memorialize the 50th anniversary of the U.S. trucking industry, turned out to feature the modified but unmistakable outlines of a Reo truck, 1949 model, driven by a smiling trucker.
The Reo company found out about its distinction when proofs of the proposed stamp were sent around...
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