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Doodlebug tractor is the colloquial American English name for a tractor home-made in the United States during World War II, when production tractors were in short supply. The doodlebug of the 1940s was usually based on a 1920s or 1930s era Ford automobile which was then modified either by the complete removal or alteration of some of the ...
In 1957, Old Dominion extended its operations to most major markets in North Carolina and southern Virginia. Five years later, in 1962, the company relocated its headquarters to High Point, North Carolina and merged with Bottoms-Fiske trucking company. [20] [7] Between 1969 and 1979, the company acquired several competing trucking lines.
Update: I am in touch with C. Skirkey of Doodlebugs Homemade Antique Tractor Club who provided a lot more information about the history of these vehicles, just need to get it referenced before adding it. Also trying to get some pictures, and a list of Doodlebug clubs. In8sworld 14:38, 8 December 2009 (UTC)
Doodlebug or hoodlebug is a nickname in the United States for a type of self-propelled railcar most commonly configured to carry both passengers and freight, often dedicated baggage, mail or express, as in a combine. [1] The term has been used interchangeably with jitney.
The St. Louis Car Company "Doodlebug" was a model of lightweight, streamlined diesel-electric railcars built by the St. Louis Car Company in 1936 for the Seaboard Air Line Railroad. Electromotive Corporation supplied the 600 hp (450 kW), eight-cylinder Winton 8-201A prime mover and electric transmission components, though unit 2028 would be ...
A Doodle Bug scooter in the Crawford Auto-Aviation Museum The Doodle Bug was a motor scooter built from 1946 to 1948 [ 1 ] by the Beam Manufacturing Company [ 2 ] of Webster City, Iowa , US. [ 1 ] They were sold through the Gambles store chain to compete against Cushman scooters being sold under the Allstate brand by Sears . [ 2 ]
The Texaco Doodlebug (also called the Diamond T Doodlebug) was a futuristic American tanker truck of the 1930s. The vehicles were streamlined and highly aerodynamic. [ 1 ] The overall shape, a flattened half-cylinder rounded at the front and tapered at the end, has been described as a "pill" [ 1 ] or "breadloaf". [ 2 ]
A foreclosure sale in April 1877 produced the Delaware Western Railroad, which was incorporated in June 1877 and merged into the Baltimore and Philadelphia Railroad, a B&O subsidiary, in February 1883. [4] The B&O cut back the line to Southwood in the early 1940s and to Hockessin in the late 1950s.