MACK AC Dumper w/1937 NORTHWEST Model 78 Shovel, F Berlanti Sons, NY 8x10 Photo

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This photo is an excellent high quality 8” x 10” black & white glossy photo new reproduction of a MACK ‘AC’ Chain-Drive Dump Truck being loaded by a  a NORTHWEST MODEL 78 Rock Shovel taken November 1937, owned by FRED BERLANTI & SONS, INC. of White Plains, NY.
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DESCRIPTION: A Northwest Model 78 Shovel loads rock excavation into a MACK ‘AC” Chain-Drive Dump Truck … from a Northwest Engineering publicity photo taken November 1937. Note the unique rearward gantry on the Northwest 78 Shovel. as well as the dump bed extension on the Mack with no tailgate.
NORTHWEST MODEL 78: The Model 78 was produced from 1931 to 1943, as a Shovel, Dragline & Crane. It was rated as a 2 CY Shovel, and powered with a MURPHY ME-6 Diesel Engine. While the Model 78 encompassed all the new refinements at the time on Northwest machines, the need was there for even larger capacity machines … setting the stage for the introduction of two legendary machines, the Model 80-D and Model 95, that would truly define Northwest as a leader in cable machine technology.
HISTORY OF THE AC MACK: The famous Mack Model “AC” was the truck that made Mack famous around the world, and was known as the “Bulldog” Mack for its rugged dependability in WWI Europe ... a nickname that stuck and gave rise to the phrase “Tough as a Mack truck”.  Some 40,200 “AC” Macks were produced from 1916 to 1938, one of the longest production runs of any model truck.  Built with a 4-cylinder gas engine and a 4-speed transmission with chain-drive, the “AC” was well suited for tough construction work.  The split side-radiator behind the engine, allowed for a sloping hood design and better driver visibility.  A ‘motometer’ usually sat atop the center of the rear mounted radiator, for the driver to monitor engine temperature, manually opening and closing the side radiator louvers to cool or warm the engine.  Some of these rugged chain drive AC Macks were used up into the early 1950s ... hard to believe!
FRED BERLANTI & SONS, INC.: From what I could learn, Fred Berlanti was a prominent sewer contractor from Harrison, NY next to White Plains. Perhaps this project was in White Plains. Berlanti was active from the 1930s into the 1940s. Internet information shows Berlanti working at the Tarrytown Sewage Treatment Plant and the White Plains-Scarsdale Flood Control Project, among others.
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 Original HP 64 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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