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1917 · 48438 — Chicago IL: Dearborn Truck Co. Manufacturers 1250-1264 So. Campbell Ave. ca. 1917. One photo postcard 3.5 x 5.5 in. Photo image on front printed text on verso very minor edgewear to card slight creasing still a VG piece. A splendid example of Real Photo Post Card advertising during World War I providing an excellent visual reference for truck building in Chicago at the time. Dearborn Truck Company advertised themselves as a company that could build one- or two-ton truck unites from any make of car emphasizing Fords Packard Buick and Dodge frames. These inexpensive chain-driven trucks offered an excellent inexpensive truck at half the cost of a new truck and they provided a one year guarantee. They pointed out that during their production process they designed the truck to carry 90 percent of the load on the rear axle with its heavy truck wheels so there was actually less weight on the Ford front axle after conversion then on the front axle of a Ford touring car. Trucks could be purchased for $ 350 up to $ 500 with a used car. In 1918 they moved to 2515-25 West 35th St. a plant that was four times the size due to their rapid market expansion. See Dun’s Review Vol. 28 April 1917 p. 67; The Motor Truck Vol. 9 May 1918 p. 205. Dearborn Truck Co., Manufacturers, 1250-1264 So. Campbell, Ave., unknown