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• AEERSA (fire trucks)
• Alden Sampson
  United States Motor Company
  The United States Motor Company was organized by Benjamin Briscoe in 1910 as a selling company, to represent various manufacturers. It had begun life as the International Motor Company in 1908 in an attempt to create the first major consolidation within the industry with Maxwell-Briscoe and Buick,...
  
  
• AM General
  AM General
  AM General is an American heavy vehicle manufacturer based in South Bend, Indiana. It is best known for the civilian Hummer and the military Humvee, that is assembled in Mishawaka, Indiana...
  
  
• American
  American (1911 automobile)
  The American was produced by the American Automobile Manufacturing Co, New Albany, Indiana. It had a two-stroke engine from 1911 to 1912. After that, there is no record of passenger cars made by the company, though it made trucks into 1913...
  
   (1911–1913)
• American Austin
  American Austin Car Company
  The American Austin Car Company was a United States automobile manufacturing corporation tied to the British Austin Motor Company. The company was founded in 1929, and produced motorcars from 1930 through 1934, when it filed for bankruptcy....
  
   (1929–1934)
• American Bantam
  American Austin Car Company
  The American Austin Car Company was a United States automobile manufacturing corporation tied to the British Austin Motor Company. The company was founded in 1929, and produced motorcars from 1930 through 1934, when it filed for bankruptcy....
  
   (1935–1941)
• American Coleman
  American Coleman
  The American Coleman was line of semi trucks built from the 1950s into the 1970s. This truck in airfield operations, military applications, and for the Coleman Company to deliver their products to distributors. The cab-over design had no fifth wheel, instead the trucks frame locked into position by...
  
  
• American LaFrance
  American LaFrance
  American LaFrance is an emergency and vocational vehicle manufacturer, currently based in Summerville, South Carolina. Focusing primarily on emergency apparatus fire engines and fire aerial including ambulance and rescue vehicles.-History:...
  
   (fire trucks)
• American Motor Truck

B

• Barley
  Barley Motor Car Co.
  Barley Motor Car Co. was a manufacturer of automobiles in Kalamazoo, Michigan and Streator, Illinois. It manufactured the Roamer automobile and, briefly, the Barley , and the Pennant ....
  
  
• Bering
  Bering Truck
  The Bering Truck Corporation is a former United States manufacturer and distributor of trucks. It was headquartered in Front Royal, Virginia. The company was a part of Bering Motors.-History:...
  
  
• Bessemer (1911-circa 1929)
• Bethlehem
• Biederman (1920–1955)
• Binghamton Electric
  Binghamton Electric
  The Binghamton Electric was an American automobile manufactured only in 1920. An electric car from Binghamton, New York, the car was made by the Binghamton Electric Truck Co. Only two or three two-passenger coupes were produced....
  
   (1920)
• Brockway
  Brockway Motor Company
  Brockway Motor Company was a builder of custom heavy-duty trucks in Cortland, New York from 1912 to 1977. It was founded as Brockway Carriage Works in 1875 by William Brockway...
  
  
• Brodesser (1909–1911)
• Bryan Steam Motors
  Bryan Steam Car
  The Bryan Steam Car was an American steam car manufactured from 1918 until 1923. It was produced by Bryan Steam Motors of Peru, Indiana, a company which built mainly steam-driven tractors and trucks. A total of six vehicles, all touring cars, were built under this badge; most, if not all, were...
  
   (1918–1923)
• Buick
  Buick
  Buick is a premium brand of General Motors . Buick models are sold in the United States, Canada, Mexico, China, Taiwan, and Israel, with China being its largest market. Buick holds the distinction as the oldest active American make...
  
  

C

• Crown
• Caterpillar
  Caterpillar Inc.
  Caterpillar Inc. , also known as "CAT", designs, manufactures, markets and sells machinery and engines and sells financial products and insurance to customers via a worldwide dealer network. Caterpillar is the world's largest manufacturer of construction and mining equipment, diesel and natural gas...
  
  
• Chase
  Chase Motor Truck Company
  Chase Motor Truck Company , founded by Aurin M. Chase, was a manufacturer of trucks in Syracuse, New York. The vehicles were known for their air-cooled engines and simplicity of design....
  
   (1907-1919)
• Chevrolet
  Chevrolet
  Chevrolet , also known as Chevy , is a brand of vehicle produced by General Motors Company . Founded by Louis Chevrolet and ousted GM founder William C. Durant on November 3, 1911, General Motors acquired Chevrolet in 1918...
  
  
• Chrysler
  Chrysler
  Chrysler Group LLC is a multinational automaker headquartered in Auburn Hills, Michigan, USA. Chrysler was first organized as the Chrysler Corporation in 1925....
  
  
• Colet
• Crane Carrier
  Crane Carrier Corporation
  Crane Carrier Company is a manufacturer that specializes in construction truck and garbage truck chassis. Located in Tulsa, Oklahoma, it was established by Samuel Zeligson in 1946, along with the affiliated Zeligson Trucks. The primary design of CCC's trucks are Cab-Beside-Engine or half-cabs,...
  
  

D

• Desberon
  Desberon
  The Desberon was an American automobile manufactured from 1901 until 1904. The company initially built steam trucks, and later branched out into making 4hp gas-driven "pleasure carriages" built along "French lines". Later still, 6·2 liter 12 hp models were produced....
  
   (1901–1904)
• Dempster
  Dempster Brothers, Inc.
  Dempster Brothers, Inc. of Knoxville, Tennessee, is an industrial firm that makes waste handling vehicles including the following:*Dempster Dumpmaster*Dempster Dinosaur...
  
  
• Diamond REO (1967-)
• Diamond T
  Diamond T
  The Diamond T was an American automobile manufactured in Chicago from 1905 until 1911 by the Diamond T Motor Car Company. It was a powerful touring car . The company later became known for its trucks...
  
   (1911–1966)
• Divco
  Divco
  Divco was a brand name of delivery trucks in the United States. Divco is an acronym which stands for Detroit Industrial Vehicles COmpany. Founded in 1926, Divco was well-known for its pioneering delivery vehicles, especially the home delivery milk trucks. From 1926 until 1986, Divco produced...
  
  
• Dodge
  Dodge
  Dodge is a United States-based brand of automobiles, minivans, and sport utility vehicles, manufactured and marketed by Chrysler Group LLC in more than 60 different countries and territories worldwide....
  
  

E

• Elk (1913–1914)
• E-One
  E-One
  E-One or Emergency One Incorporated is an emergency services manufacturer and marketer based in Ocala, Florida.- History :Founded in 1974, E-One has a staff of roughly 900 in four plants in the United States. In 1993 E-One purchased Superior Emergency Equipment and in 2004 bought Saulsbury Fire...
  
  
• Euclid
  Euclid Trucks
  The Euclid Company of Ohio was a company specialized in heavy equipment for earthmoving, namely dump trucks and wheel tractor-scrapers, that operated from the United States of America from the 1920s to the 1950s, then it was purchased and converted into a section of General Motors and later on by...
  
  

F

• Fageol Motors
  Fageol
  Fageol Motors was a U.S. manufacturer of buses, trucks and farm tractors.-History:The company was founded in 1916 to manufacture motor trucks, farm tractors and automobiles in Oakland, California....
  
   (1916–1938; later Peterbilt
  Peterbilt
  Peterbilt Motors Company is an American manufacturer of medium- and heavy-duty Class 5 through Class 8 trucks headquartered in Denton, Texas. Founded in 1939 Peterbilt operates manufacturing facilities in Denton, Texas , and Sainte-Thérèse, Quebec...
  
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• Fargo
  Fargo (truck)
  Fargo was a brand of truck manufactured by the Chrysler Corporation. In general terms, Fargo trucks were a mere rebadging of Dodge trucks models.-History:...
  
  
• Federal Motor Truck Company
• General Motors
  Fisher
  Fisher is an archaic term for fisherman, revived as gender-neutral.Fisher or Fishers may also refer to:*Fisher , a North American mustelid*Fisher , a rock band featuring Kathy Fisher as lead singer...
  
  
• Ford
• Freightliner
  Freightliner LLC
  Freightliner Trucks is an American manufacturer of heavy duty trucks, chassis and semi-trailer trucks in the United States. The company was founded as Freightliner Inc in 1942 and is now a division of Daimler Trucks North America, a subsidiary of the German Daimler AG...
  
  
• FWD
  Front-wheel drive
  Front-wheel drive is a form of engine/transmission layout used in motor vehicles, where the engine drives the front wheels only. Most modern front-wheel drive vehicles feature a transverse engine, rather than the conventional longitudinal engine arrangement generally found in rear-wheel drive and...
  
  

G

• Garford
  Superior Coach Company
  Superior Coach was once a school bus body and professional car manufacturer, but today it focuses on building hearses and is located in Lima in Allen County, Ohio.-History:-Garford Motor Truck Company:...
  
  
• Garwood
  Garwood Load Packer
  Garwood Industries revolutionized the garbage collection industry with the Load Packer. It was introduced in 1938, but significant numbers weren't manufactured until after World War II. By 1949, over 2500 of these trucks were in use in cities and towns across the United States and Canada...
  
  
• General Vehicle (or G.V.) (1905–1906)
• Gersix (1915–1922)
• GMC (1912–present)
• Grabowsky (1908–1913)
• Graham-Paige
  Graham-Paige
  Graham-Paige was an American automobile manufacturer founded by brothers Joseph B. Graham and Robert C. Graham , and Canadian Ray Austin in 1927. Automobile production ceased in 1940, and its automotive assets were acquired by Kaiser-Frazer in 1947...
  
  

H

• Hart-Kraft (1907–1913)
• Hatfield (1910–1911)
• Hebb (before 1926)
• Heil
  Heil Environmental Industries Limited
  Heil Environmental Industries Limited, a subsidiary of Dover Corporation, is a manufacturer of garbage and recycling trucks. As of 2009, Heil Environmental was the chief supplier of refuse and recycling equipment for the world's largest waste collection agency, the New York City Sanitation Department...
  
  
• Hummer
  AM General
  AM General is an American heavy vehicle manufacturer based in South Bend, Indiana. It is best known for the civilian Hummer and the military Humvee, that is assembled in Mishawaka, Indiana...
  
  

K

• Kaiser
  Kaiser Motors
  Kaiser Motors Corporation made automobiles at Willow Run, Michigan, United States, from 1945 to 1953. In 1953, Kaiser merged with Willys-Overland to form Willys Motors Incorporated, moving its production operations to the Willys plant at Toledo, Ohio...
  
  
• Kaiser-Frazer
  Kaiser-Frazer
  The Kaiser-Frazer Corporation was the result of a partnership between automobile executive Joseph W. Frazer and industrialist Henry J. Kaiser. In 1947, the company acquired the automotive assets of Graham-Paige, of which Frazer had been president before the Second World War...
  
  
• Kenworth
  Kenworth
  Kenworth is an American manufacturer of medium and heavy-duty Class 8 trucks based in Kirkland, Washington, United States, a suburb of Seattle. It is a subsidiary of PACCAR, and is also a former manufacturer of transit buses and school buses.-History:...
  
  
• Kentucky Wagon Works (1914–1923)
• Kissel
  Kissel Motor Car Company
  The Kissel Motor Car Company was an American automobile manufacturing company founded by Louis Kissel and his sons, George and William, on June 5, 1906 in Hartford, Wisconsin. The company custom built high-quality automobiles, hearses, fire trucks, taxicabs, and utility vehicles from their plant at...
  
   (1910–1930)

L

• Lincoln
  Lincoln (automobile)
  Lincoln is an American luxury vehicle brand of the Ford Motor Company. Lincoln vehicles are sold mostly in North America.-History:The company was founded in August 1915 by Henry M. Leland, one of the founders of Cadillac . During World War I, he left Cadillac which was sold to General Motors...
  
  
• Luedinghaus (1920–1933)

M

• Maccar (1914–1935)
• Mack
  Mack Trucks
  Mack Trucks is an American truck-manufacturing company and a former manufacturer of buses and trolley buses. A wholly owned subsidiary of Renault Véhicules Industriels since 1990, Mack Trucks is currently a subsidiary of AB Volvo. The company's headquarters are located in Greensboro, North Carolina...
  
  
• Marion
  Marion
  -People:Surname*Francis Marion, the "Swamp Fox", American Revolutionary War general*J. Paul Marion, Canadian politician*Jean-Luc Marion, a continental philosopher*Marty Marion, American baseball player, nicknamed "Mr...
  
   (garbage trucks)
• Marmon
  Marmon Motor Company
  Marmon Motor Company was a Texas-based manufacturer of premium trucks from 1963 through 1997.- History :In 1963, after Marmon-Herrington, the successor to the Marmon Motor Car Company, ceased truck production, a new company, Marmon Motor Company of Denton, Texas, purchased and revived the Marmon...
  
  
• Marmon-Herrington
  Marmon-Herrington
  The Marmon-Herrington Company, Inc. is an American-based manufacturer of axles and transfer cases for trucks and other vehicles. Earlier, the company built military vehicles and some tanks during World War II, and until the late 1950s or early 1960s was a manufacturer of trucks and trolley buses...
  
   (1931–1964)
• McNeilus
  McNeilus
  McNeilus manufactures Concrete transport trucks, mobile and portable Concrete Batch Plants, and Refuse Collection vehicles in Dodge Center, Minnesota, where it is the largest employer....
  
  
• Mogul (before 1926)

O

• Oldsmobile
  Oldsmobile Silhouette
  The Oldsmobile Silhouette and its siblings, the Pontiac Trans Sport and Chevrolet Lumina APV , were a trio of minivans that débuted in late 1989 as 1990 models...
  
  
• Old Hickory (1914–1923)
• Oneida
• Oshkosh (1918-) (Wisconsin Duplex 1917-1918)
• Ottawa

P

• Packard
  Packard
  Packard was an American luxury-type automobile marque built by the Packard Motor Car Company of Detroit, Michigan, and later by the Studebaker-Packard Corporation of South Bend, Indiana...
  
   (1904–1923)
• Pak-Mor (garbage trucks, San Antonio)
• Palmer-Moore
  Palmer-Moore Company
  The Palmer-Moore Company was a manufacturer of gasoline and air-cooled motor engines and marine engines in Syracuse, New York. The company began production of commercial trucks beginning in 1912...
  
   (1906–1918)
• Peterbilt
  Peterbilt
  Peterbilt Motors Company is an American manufacturer of medium- and heavy-duty Class 5 through Class 8 trucks headquartered in Denton, Texas. Founded in 1939 Peterbilt operates manufacturing facilities in Denton, Texas , and Sainte-Thérèse, Quebec...
  
   (1939–present)
• Pierce
  Pierce Manufacturing
  Pierce Manufacturing is an Appleton, Wisconsin based manufacturer of custom fire and rescue apparatus and a wholly owned subsidiary of Oshkosh Corporation. Pierce was acquired by Oshkosh in 1996. The company was originally founded in 1913 by Humphrey Pierce and his son Dudley as the Pierce Auto...
  
   (1955-) (distinct from Pierce-Arrow)
• Pierce-Arrow
  Pierce-Arrow
  Pierce-Arrow was an American automobile manufacturer based in Buffalo, New York, which was active from 1901-1938. Although best known for its expensive luxury cars, Pierce-Arrow also manufactured commercial trucks, fire trucks, camp trailers, motorcycles, and bicycles.-Early history:The forerunner...
  
   (1911-circa 1934)
• Piggins Practical
  Piggins
  The Piggins was an American automobile manufactured only in 1909 and a truck, which was marketed as the "Practical Piggins" and manufactured between 1911 and 1916. The passenger vehicle was a six-cylinder touring car of 36 hp or 50 hp....
  
   (1911–1916)
• Plymouth
  Plymouth (automobile)
  Plymouth was a marque of automobile based in the United States, produced by the Chrysler Corporation and its successor DaimlerChrysler.-Origins:...
  
   (1935–1941)
• Pontiac
  Pontiac Trans Sport
  The Pontiac Trans Sport and its siblings, the Chevrolet Lumina APV and Oldsmobile Silhouette were a set of minivans that débuted with radical styling in fall 1989 as 1990 models. There was also a Chevrolet Trans Sport sold in Europe until 2005 that was a version of the Chevrolet Venture that had...
  
  
• Poss (1911–1912)

R

• Rapid Motor Vehicle Company
  Rapid Motor Vehicle Company
  The Rapid Motor Vehicle Company was founded in 1902 in Pontiac, Michigan, by brothers Max Grabowsky and Morris Grabowsky, who built their first prototype in 1901. They went on to build one-ton trucks and were the beginning of GMC Truck division after they were acquired by General Motors in 1909...
  
   (1902-1909) predecessor to GMC Truck
• REO
  REO Motor Car Company
  The REO Motor Car Company was a Lansing, Michigan based company that produced automobiles and trucks from 1905 to 1975. At one point the company also manufactured buses on its truck platforms.REO was initiated by Ransom E. Olds during August 1904...
  
   (1908–1967) (maker of the REO Speed Wagon
  REO Speed Wagon
  The REO Speed Wagon was a light motor truck manufactured by REO Motor Car Company. It was an ancestor of the pickup truck....
  
   pickup
  Pickup truck
  A pickup truck is a light motor vehicle with an open-top rear cargo area .-Definition:...
  
  s and fire trucks)
• Republic
  Republic Motor Truck Company
  Republic Motor Truck Company was a manufacturer of commercial trucks circa 1913 - 1929, in Alma, Michigan. By 1918, it was recognized as the largest exclusive truck manufacturer in the world, and the maker of one out of every nine trucks on the roads in the United States. It was one of the major...
  
   (1913–1929) (later partnered with American LaFrance
  American LaFrance
  American LaFrance is an emergency and vocational vehicle manufacturer, currently based in Summerville, South Carolina. Focusing primarily on emergency apparatus fire engines and fire aerial including ambulance and rescue vehicles.-History:...
  
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• Rush (1915–1918)

S

• Sanford-Herbert
  Sanford-Herbert Motor Truck Company
  The Sanford-Herbert Motor Truck Company was a manufacturer of trucks in Syracuse, New York.-History:The Sanford-Herbert Motor Truck Company was founded in 1909 and manufactured trucks in Syracuse for over 30 years until 1939....
  
   (1909-1939)
• G.A. Schact Motor Truck Company
  Schacht (automobile)
  Schacht was an American maufacturer of automobile, trucks and fire trucks from 1904 to 1940. The company was started by William and Gustav Schact in Cincinnati, Ohio. Production of automobiles was from 1904 to 1914 with over 8,000 automobiles produced. The company was renamed the G.A...
  
   (1910–1938) (fire trucks)
• SPA
  SPA Truck Company
  SPA Truck Company was a manufacturer of trucks, which was owned and operated by Studebaker Corporation and its wholly owned subsidiary, Pierce-Arrow of Buffalo, New York. The name SPA was based on Studebaker, Pierce and Arrow...
  
  
• Sterling
  Sterling Trucks
  Sterling Trucks, a manufacturer of heavy duty trucks, was a subsidiary of Daimler Trucks North America, based in Portland, Oregon, United States, a member of the Daimler AG Truck Group. It was originally the heavy truck division of Ford Motor Company, but was purchased and rebranded in 1997....
  
  
• Stoddard (1911)
• Studebaker
  Studebaker
  Studebaker Corporation was a United States wagon and automobile manufacturer based in South Bend, Indiana. Founded in 1852 and incorporated in 1868 under the name of the Studebaker Brothers Manufacturing Company, the company was originally a producer of wagons for farmers, miners, and the...
  
   (1905-1910 {electric}, 1913–1918, 1927–1964)

V

• Van-L (1912)
• Van Dyke (1910–1912)
• V.E. (or V.E.C.) Electric (1901–1906)
• Velie
  Velie
  Velie was a brass era American automobile brand produced by the Velie Motors Corporation in Moline, Illinois from 1908 to 1928. The company was founded by and named for Willard Velie, a maternal grandson of John Deere....
  
   (1911–1929)
• Vestal (1914)

W

• Walter
• Wayne
• Western Star
  Western Star Trucks
  Western Star Trucks is a Fort Mill, South Carolina, United States based manufacturer of Class 8 commercial trucks and a subsidiary of the German Daimler AG.-History:...
  
  
• White
  White Motor Company
  White Motor Company was an American automobile and truck manufacturer from 1900 until 1980. The company also produced bicycles, roller skates, automatic lathes, and sewing machines. Before World War II, the company was based in Cleveland, Ohio.-History:...
  
  
• White Hickory (1916–1921)
• Willys
• Willys-Overland
• Wisconsin Duplex (1917–1918; Oshkosh Truck afterward)
• Worcester Lunch Car
  Worcester Lunch Car Company
  Worcester Lunch Car Company was a large manufacturer of historic diners based in Worcester, Massachusetts from 1906 to 1957.-History:Philip H. Duprey founded the company in 1906 as the Worcester Lunch Car and Carriage Manufacturing Company. It was named for Worcester, Massachusetts, where the...
  
  

See also

• Dump truck
  Dump truck
  A dump truck is a truck used for transporting loose material for construction. A typical dump truck is equipped with a hydraulically operated open-box bed hinged at the rear, the front of which can be lifted up to allow the contents to be deposited on the ground behind the truck at the site of...
  
  
• Semi-trailer
  Semi-trailer
  A semi-trailer is a trailer without a front axle. A large proportion of its weight is supported by a road tractor, a detachable front axle assembly known as a dolly, or the tail of another trailer...
  
   and semi-trailer truck
  Semi-trailer truck
  A semi-trailer truck, also known as a semi, tractor-trailer, or articulated truck or articulated lorry, is an articulated vehicle consisting of a towing engine , and a semi-trailer A semi-trailer truck, also known as a semi, tractor-trailer, or (in the United Kingdom and Ireland) articulated truck...
  
  
• Tractor unit
  Tractor unit
  A tractor unit, prime mover , road tractor, or traction unit is a heavy-duty commercial vehicle within the large goods vehicle category, usually with a large displacement diesel engine, and several axles. The tractor unit serves as a method of moving trailers...
  
  
• List of automobile manufacturers
• List of defunct automobile manufacturers
• List of dump truck manufacturers
• List of truck manufacturers