Thursday, June 01, 2017

1900 Wood Electric Truck, it weighed 7500 pounds


A gift from UPS to the Henry Ford museum, B. Altman and Company, a New York City department store, purchased this electric truck from F. R. Wood and Son around 1900. Altman employed horse-drawn delivery wagons but began to experiment with electric trucks in 1898 as a cost cutting measure. Electric trucks dispensed with the care and maintenance costs of horses. This truck made twice-daily trips from a warehouse to a distribution center.

https://www.thehenryford.org/collections-and-research/digital-collections/artifact/221781/

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