Mack Trucks

Mack Trucks is well known as a manufacturer of trucks but was once also a manufacturer of buses. The bus plant was located in Allentown, Pennsylvania, in the Lehigh Valley region of the state.

Mack Trucks timeline

• 1890: John M. Mack gets a job at Fallesen & Berry, a carriage and wagon company in Brooklyn, New York.
• 1893: Mack and his brother, Augustus F. Mack, buy the company John worked for.
• 1900: The Macks open their first bus manufacturing plant. The Mack bus, ordered by a sightseeing company, is delivered.
• 1902: The Mack Brothers Company established in New York.
• 1904: The company introduces the name Manhattan on its products.
• 1905: Allentown selected as the home of main manufacturing operations, and headquarters.
• 1910: The Manhattan name changed; from now on, the trucks are known as Mack Trucks.
• 1911: The company is sold, but it keeps operating as Mack Trucks.
• 1919: The United States Army conducts a trans-continental project using Mack Trucks to study the need for national highway systems.
• 1920: Mack Trucks are the first with power brakes on their trucks.
• 1922: The English bulldog is accepted as the company's corporate symbol.
• 1960: Bus production ended.

Trademark

The company's trademark is an English Bulldog. Mack trucks earned this nickname in 1917, during World War I, when the British government purchased the Mack AC model to supply its front lines with troops, food and equipment. British soldiers dubbed the truck the "Bulldog Mack." Its pugnacious, blunt-nosed hood, coupled with its incredible durability, reminded the soldiers of the tenacious qualities of their country's mascot, the English Bulldog.

Bus models

Pre-War models

Buses
1920	1921	1922	1923	1924	1925	1926	1927	1928	1929	1930	1931	1932	1933	1934	1935	1936	1937	1938	1939	1940	1941	1942	1943
	AB
						AL
									BC
											BG
									BK
											BT
																					CD
													CG
												CL
																			CM
																			CO
																						CP
														CQ
															CT
															CW
															CX
																	CY
																					KB
																				LC
																					LD
																			L-3G
																			L-25
																					RB
																					RC
Trolleybus
														CR-3S
1920	1921	1922	1923	1924	1925	1926	1927	1928	1929	1930	1931	1932	1933	1934	1935	1936	1937	1938	1939	1940	1941	1942	1943

Post-War models

Buses
1946	1947	1948	1949	1950	1951	1952	1953	1954	1955	1956	1957	1958	1959	1960
		C-33-DT
		C-33-GT
		C-37-DT
		C-37-GT
	C-41-DT
C-41-GT
	C-45-DT
	C-45-GT
							C-47-DT
								C-49-DT
										C-49-PGT
				C-50-DT
														ADS-1
Highway coaches
												97D
												MV620D
1946	1947	1948	1949	1950	1951	1952	1953	1954	1955	1956	1957	1958	1959	1960

• 92G (1950s)
• FR-1 (1985-1986)

Rail bus models

Pre-War models

• AB (1929-1934)
• ACP
• ACR
• ACX
• AH?
• AQ
• AR?
• AS

Pre-War models

• FCD

External links

• Mack Trucks Official Web Site.