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White truck in Iquique, Chile White truck in the Chicago Fire Department from 1930 to 1941 1944 White Model VA-114 truck on display at the Iowa 80 Trucking Museum, Walcott, Iowa. White Motor Company ended car production after World War I to focus exclusively on trucks. The company soon sold 10 percent of all trucks made in the US.
The Kennedy-Wade Mill, or Wade's Mill, is a grist mill and national historic district located in Raphine, Virginia and listed on the National Register of Historic Places. [3] It was originally built c. 1750 by Captain Joseph Kennedy. In 1846 the mill was sold by the Kennedy family to Henry B. Jones, who expanded and improved the mill. [3]
White Western Star trucks in that era typically used cabs from its sister company, Autocar. Western Star production was moved to Ogden, Utah, but the brand was not included in the 1981 sale of White's truck business to Volvo, instead being sold to Bow Valley Resources and Nova Corporation, each owning 50%. [2] [3] [4]
Diesel bays were first added in 1988 in Suffolk, Virginia, and in 1990 a travel plaza with facilities for truck drivers was added at Raphine, Virginia. [1] [2] In 1999, Williams had 130 Wilco stations in North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, and Georgia. The company bought eight Exxon stations in the Winston-Salem area. [3]
The 6-ton 6×6 truck (supply catalog designations G512, 514, 526, and 547) was a family of heavy tactical trucks built for the United States Army during World War II. The basic cargo version was designed to transport a 6- short ton (5,400 kg) cargo load over all terrain in all weather.
When the truck stop is complete, it will feature a three-bay commercial truck repair garage, an eight-lane diesel refueling station for commercial trucks, 10 multi-gas fuel pumps, a CAT scale for ...
The White Road Commander was a series of heavy-duty cab over trucks built by the White Motor Company from 1972 [2] until 1983. After Volvo's takeover the Road Commander received a light facelift and continued to be sold as the White High Cabover .
The name "Raphine" was chosen in honor of James Edward Allen Gibbs (1829-1902), a local farmer who patented a novel single-thread chain-stitch sewing machine on June 2, 1857. Gibbs had named his home in the area ("Raphine Hall"), and the new railroad station ("Raphine"), after the ancient Greek word "rhaphis", meaning "needle.".