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"Mack" by John Montville


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Well guys,  I am ancient I guess.   My copy was given to me by Homer Milliken with his business card glued to the inside flap;                            "National Accounts 

                                                         Mack Trucks Inc

                                                         350 Fifth Ave.

                                                         New York, New York 10001"

How about it KSC- when was that office shut down?

In any case, agree great book

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8 hours ago, mackdaddy said:

John wanted to do an update some years back and I was told that Volvo would not give him permission? 

That is absolute disgraceful if that is Volvos position. I bet they are worried about the truth being spoken? However I dont see how Volvo can stop him from writing a book.

7 hours ago, yarnall said:

He is on the Mack Museum advisory board and has been talking about the update.  He is working on it.  Hopefully it happens.  

Glad to hear that. I hate reading yet I find his writing style enjoyable

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That is absolute disgraceful if that is Volvos position. I bet they are worried about the truth being spoken? However I dont see how Volvo can stop him from writing a book.

Easy now. The statement was a rumor, not a fact.

Mr. Montville is an absolute gentleman who has an encyclopedic  knowledge about Mack Trucks and the Mack corporation. 

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Money, sex, and fire; everybody thinks everyone else is getting more than they are!

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By far the best book on Mack that I have come across. There are already two editions, one with a stars and stripes jacket from the early 70's and a later edition with a superliner on the Jacket which includes the later 70's output. An update would be welcome. It's been nearly 40 years since the last one.

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I doubt any other book shares such full encyclopedyc amount of facts about the Mack company.

Bulldog is a special part showing out everything of AC model from A to Z.

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Никогда не бывает слишком много грузовиков! leversole 11.2012

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4 hours ago, mackey58 said:

Remember  when you could write to a company  and they d send ya a ton of stuff wrote to keen transport  as a kid telling them his cool it was to see there trucks hauling those big cat loads out of aurora il they send me hats  a coffee  mug and cool pics awww man old days lol

My father has a binder full of B model spec sheets that he got from Mack as a kid.  I wish he had kept the letters that came with them.  

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KS: Don't forget we are waiting for your book on Mack. May be you and John could collude.:thumb: Vlad I hope things keep getting better and better in your homeland. The left in our country is trying to do the same thing in our country that the Bolshevics did in yours in 1917. Instead of using guns and bullets they are using corrupt anti American politicians. (Socialists, Democrats, Progressives , Communists and Rhinos. Instead of bullets they use corrupt laws to strip us of freedoms. Hopefully Trump can pull the plug on the swamp.

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On ‎11‎/‎2‎/‎2017 at 12:17 AM, kscarbel2 said:

That's the address of the Empire State Building. C'mon Bob, that was on a test last year. The headquarters for Mack moved from the Empire State Building to Plainfield, New Jersey in 1955. Mack had a massive presence in New York, but at one time was a much larger corporate citizen of New Jersey than Pennsylvania.

John's good people. He produced some one-off books for me.

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Mack Plants – New York City, New York

The purchase of the Hewitt Motor Company in 1912 by the International Motor Company (the holding company of Mack Brothers Motor Car Company) resulted in the acquisition of Hewitt’s large plant located at West End Avenue and 64th Street in Manhattan. Hewitt trucks and Arco radiators (a subsidiary of the International Motor Company) were produced there, as well as Alco truck spare parts under contract for the American Locomotive Company (which had discontinued truck production in 1913)

In 1913, the facility was enlarged to 200,000 square feet, with a garage capacity of 350 trucks, to serve as a factory service center.

By 1914, both the corporate headquarters of the International Motor Company and Mack R&D center were located within the massive complex.

The facility also acted as a parts distribution center (PDC) until 1920, with the opening of the New Brunswick, New Jersey, PDC.

By the early 1930s, the factory service center had fully shifted to Mack’s massive Long Island City location, and the company’s corporate headquarters had moved downtown to the Cunard Building on lower Broadway (before relocating to the Long Island City plant in 1936, the Empire State Building in 1943, Plainfield, New Jersey in 1955, Montvale, New Jersey in 1964 and Allentown, Pennsylvania in 1965).

Note: Legendary Mack chief engineer and vice president Alfred Fellows Masury was one of the founders of the Hewitt Motor Company

https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/34219-mack-trucks-the-facilities/?tab=comments#comment-226402

 

last year an employee  sat next to a man on a plane out of Medford, OR. In the conversation he learned that the man.......named Nick owned a trucking business based in Medford. My guy Walt told him about my passion for Mack and the collection of trucks I had and to his surprise Nick told him that his last name was Hewitt and that his grandfather sold his company to Mack. Well needless to say Nick and I met up and he brought a stack of Hewitt Motor papers with him including a copy of the stock transfer when Mack bought the company. He received all of this during a visit to Mack several years ago. He said they treated him like he was royalty. Now you got to ask how could that be his grandfather after all of these years? He told me his father was in his early 60's when he was born. He also had a lot of history about a very large estate that the Hewitt family owned in New Jersey. He started his driving career for an outfit out of Virginia. I will get the company name and update.

He knew nothing about us nuts that restore old trucks and he quickly became a fan and has gone to a couple shows with me. He loves mixing the sticks as he started out in an F model with a tri plex..............sadly he has a fleet of KW's.

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23 hours ago, mackdaddy said:

last year an employee  sat next to a man on a plane out of Medford, OR. In the conversation he learned that the man.......named Nick owned a trucking business based in Medford. My guy Walt told him about my passion for Mack and the collection of trucks I had and to his surprise Nick told him that his last name was Hewitt and that his grandfather sold his company to Mack. Well needless to say Nick and I met up and he brought a stack of Hewitt Motor papers with him including a copy of the stock transfer when Mack bought the company. He received all of this during a visit to Mack several years ago. He said they treated him like he was royalty. Now you got to ask how could that be his grandfather after all of these years? He told me his father was in his early 60's when he was born. He also had a lot of history about a very large estate that the Hewitt family owned in New Jersey. He started his driving career for an outfit out of Virginia. I will get the company name and update.

He knew nothing about us nuts that restore old trucks and he quickly became a fan and has gone to a couple shows with me. He loves mixing the sticks as he started out in an F model with a tri plex..............sadly he has a fleet of KW's.

update here is an email I got from Nick Hewitt

Oh, and as far as a new Mack goes I received a visit from the new salesmen from Tec Equipment Tim Martin. I told him I had been in one and really liked it but a factory build weight of 18,900 was a bit much. The T680's I have came in at 17,200 and the new ones I just specked out with Paul have a build weight of 16,900. I gave Tim the Kenworth spec sheet and told him if he could get within 200 lbs of the Kenworth I would try a new Anthem. I hope he does. I will make it my personal truck! That was a week ago. As of this writing  I have not heard from him.

 

Come on Mack................step up and make it happen!!!

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