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Description
"The FWD truck, with the engine under the seat, gave the operator better front visibility when plowing heavy snows. The Four Wheel Drive Auto Company (FWD) of Clintonville, Wisconsin, built these early trucks that had Sargent plows mounted on them." --Fletcher, David H. ' The Portland Company 1846-1982.' Charleston, S.C.: Arcadia Pub., 2002. 110.
About This Item
- Title: Four-wheel drive truck with Sargent snowplow, ca. 1920
- Creation Date: circa 1920
- Subject Date: circa 1920
- Location: Portland, Cumberland County, ME
- Media: Photoprint
- Dimensions: 9 cm x 15 cm
- Local Code: Coll. 242, Box 40b 16-78
- Collection: Portland Company records
- Object Type: Image
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Standardized Subject Headings
- Automobiles
- Four Wheel Drive Auto Company (Clintonville, Wisc.)
- Four-wheel drive trucks
- Manufacturing industries--Maine--Portland
- Metalworking industry--Maine--Portland
- Portland Company (Portland, Me.)--Manufactures
- Portland Company (Portland, Me.)--Photographs
- Snow removal--Equipment and supplies
- Snowplows
- Steel industry and trade
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