Mack Trucks: Born In Brooklyn Grew Up In Allentown
The names William, Augustus and Jack may sound like three guys in a musical trio. But put the last name Mack behind them and you know it's trucks and not tunes they would be singing. One hundred and ten years ago, in July 1901, the three Mack brothers, then wagon makers located in Brooklyn, NYC, decided to expand their limited partnership and incorporate themselves as the Mack Brothers Company. It was a way of celebrating the fact that they had survived the Panic of 1893. They were now the leading wagon supplier to New York dairies. The dairies used old fashioned horsepower to see that milk bottles found their way to the stoops of the city. But an even more exciting thing happened to the Macks in 1901. A friend of Jack had recently acquired a new gas-powered Winton automobile and invited him to go for a ride. As the big touring car glided down the street, the inventive mind of Jack Mack was working. While Jack had been experimenting for years with building motorized wagons, perhaps there was a future in oversized multi-passenger vehicles. And it happened that brother "Gus," short for Augustus, had a friend who had been after him to build a sightseeing bus for his tours of Brooklyn's popular Prospect Park. After much trial and error, the vehicle was finished and became the talk of the city. By 1904 the Mack's bus business was taking orders from as far away as Havana, Cuba. Now the Macks were in a tight but enviable position. They were building buses and trucks, and they needed to expand. But Brooklyn just did not have the room. It was then that brother Joseph, who was in the silk business, told them about an empty industrial building in the bustling industrial community of Allentown. Jack, whose love affair with the internal combustion engine was to become legendary, embarked with Joe on a 14-hour car trip across the horrible dirt roads of New Jersey to see the Allentown building. That they could have done it in two hours by train was apparently not considered. Jack took one look and decided that the building located in South Allentown along the banks of the Little Lehigh Creek, known as the old Weaver-Hirsh foundry, was ideal. It offered plenty of space and, as they planned to make their own parts and motors, they would need that. Workers and machinery began arriving in December. On January 2, 1905, Mack Brothers Motor Company was registered at the Lehigh County Courthouse.American Car Foundry - News
Jack took one look and decided that the building located in South Allentown along the banks of the Little Lehigh Creek, known as the old Weaver-Hirsh foundry, was ideal. It offered plenty of space and, as they planned to make their own parts and motors
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