1930s STERLING HCS330H SHENANDOAH MINING Hazelton PA, Coal Dumper 8x10 B&W Photo

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This photo is an excellent high quality 8” x 10” black & white photo new reproduction of a Model HCS330H STERLING 1930s Tandem-Axle Coal Truck owned by SHENANDOAH MINING CO., Hazelton, PA.
”SAMPLE” will not appear on your photo, it is only on the scanned image.
DESCRIPTION:  This 1930s Sterling HCS330H Coal Truck is dumping its load of strip-mined coal into the crusher of a coal processing plant. Chain-Driven and probably powered with a 150-hp Cummins diesel engine. A helpful & friendly eBayer sent me information that the photo was taken near Shenandoah, PA, with the stripped mountain in the background being east of Shenandoah, PA. He said during the 1950s the area would get much uglier, as it was stripped out by the Shen-Penn production company. When they stopped the pumps many years ago, it created a 300’ deep lake.
SHENANDOAH MINING CO.: Other than being located near Hazleton, PA, not much is know of this company.
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STERLING MOTOR TRUCKS: In July 1915 the Sterling Motor Truck Company was renamed from Sternberg for various reasons including the existence of strong anti-German sentiment coming with WWI. The Sternberg family had begun building trucks in 1907. The early trucks were the then-popular engine-under-the-seat design until 1915, with conventional styled trucks being introduced in 1914. Sterling Motors continued producing heavy duty trucks in Milwaukee from 1915-1952. Sterling annual production peaked in 1929 with 1577 trucks sold, struggled thru the Depression years with sales under 200, and by 1941 produced 400 trucks that year. Known primarily for staying with chain driven trucks much longer than any other producer in severe-service models, they also produced worm gear enclosed final drive models in smaller numbers, especially for the west coast market. Sterling was purchased by The White Motor Company in 1951, and rebadged as Sterling-Whites. Milwaukee production moved to Cleveland in 1953. With White’s acquisition of Autocar in 1953, and with Sterling-White only producing 250 trucks in 1952, White terminated Sterling-White production in 1953.
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 8x10 photo has a white border around the photo.
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