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Trabold Motor Truck Co. - 1911-1922 - Trabold Motors Co. - 1922-1929 - Trabold Co. 1929-1960 - Johnstown, Pennsylvania & Ferndale, Pennsylvania

Adam G. Trabold built experimental automobiles in 1898 and in 1905 and ran an automobile agency for ten years prior to introducing the Trabold 4-cylinder c.o.e. truck in 1911. Chain drive was used. A range of trucks with the Buda 4-cylinder engine under the hood was introduced in 1913. Bevel gear drive was used in some models from 1915 and worm drive was adopted in 1923. Throughout manufacture Trabold relied on Buda engines. Production exceeded 100 trucks per year in the mid-1920s, when 1 ½ -ton and 2 ½ -ton models were offered. After 1929 production was on a custom basis. Some of the last trucks were fitted with the Lycoming 8-cylinder engine and hydraulic four-wheel-brakes. The Trabold Company built truck bodies until 1960.

For more information please read:

G.N. Georgano & G. Marshall Naul - The Complete Encyclopedia of Commercial Vehicles

Albert Mroz - Illustrated Encyclopedia of American Trucks & Commercial Vehicles

Denis Miller - The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Trucks and Buses

Tad Burness - American Truck Spotter's Guide, 1920-1970

Tad Burness - American Truck & Bus Spotter's Guide, 1920-1985

Robert M Roll - American trucking: A seventy-five year odyssey

David Jacobs - American Trucks: A photographic essay of American Trucks and Trucking

David Jacobs - American Trucks: More Colour Photographs of Truck & Trucking

John Gunnell - American Work Trucks: A Pictorial History of Commercial Trucks 1900-1994

George W. Green - Special-Use Vehicles: An Illustrated History of Unconventional Cars and Trucks

Daniel D. Hutchins - Wheels Across America: Carriage Art & Craftsmanship