1930s BROCKWAY BELL TELEPHONE Truck w/YORK HOOVER BODY 8x10 B&W Glossy Photo

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This photo is an excellent high quality 8” x 10” black & white glossy new photo reproduction of a 1930s BELL TELEPHONE BROCKWAY Truck in a YORK HOOVER BODY factory photo.
”SAMPLE” will not appear on your photo, it is only on the scanned image.
DESCRIPTION:  This new BROCKWAY truck is posed in front of the YORK-HOOVER BODY CORP. factory in York, PA. The side of the 3-story brick factory reads “Ambulance - Patrol - Bottlers Bodies” in a horizontal sign, and “Telephone Bodies” in a vertical sign. The once familiar BELL TELEPHONE logo is on the door of the Brockway. The York-Hoover body appears to have a horizontal tramway for heavy lifting.
BELL TELEPHONE COMPANY: The original company was organized in Boston in 1877 by Alexander Graham Bell’s father-in-law Gardiner Greene Hubbard. The company went through a series of mergers and name changes in the early years, becoming American Telephone & Telegraph Company (AT&T) in 1899. The U. S. Department of Justice filed an antitrust lawsuit against AT&T in 1974. The Bell Operating Companies provided local telephone service in the United States up until the Bell System was broken up in 1982. The settlement took the monopoly that was the Bell System, and split it into entirely separate companies which would continue to provide telephone service. AT&T would continue to be a provider of long distance service, while the now 7 independent Regional Bell Operating Companies would provide local service, and would no longer be directly supplied with equipment from AT&T subsidiary Western Electric.
BROCKWAY: Veteran New York carriage builder George Brockway built his first motor truck in 1912 as a high wheel delivery wagon. By 1914 Brockway was building conventional trucks with 4-cylinder Continental engines, a company that would remain their primary engine supplier into the 1960s when diesels became more  prominent. By the late 1920s Brockway had become one of the nations largest independent truck manufacturers. In 1928 Brockway bought the Indiana Truck Corp. of Marion, IN to expand into the midwest. However by 1932 the Depression caused Brockway to sell the Indiana line. Brockway was heavy into military production in both WWI and WWII. In 1956 Brockway became a division of Mack Truck, and soon became the ‘Husky’ line. New designs in the 1960s often used Mack cabs. Despite a proud following of Brockway owners, after two years of financial loses, Mack closed the operation in 1977 after a wild cat strike complicated an orderly sale of the Brockway operation.
CONDITION: This outstanding black & white glossy photo is a newly reproduced photo from a vintage photo in my personal lifetime collection.  This photo has been printed on excellent quality HP PREMIUM PLUS GLOSSY PHOTO PAPER using HP 02 Vivera Inks, producing a professional quality photo that resists fading over 100 years ... the best money can buy.  This full 8x10 photo is borderless.
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