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Additional Presort 1930s
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GECAU
CUS
USA10
25
1991
0709A
Bil
NJ
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TRACTOR-TRAILER
First Day of Issue: May 25, 1991
First Issue Location: Secaucus, New Jersey
The trucking industry started rather inauspiciously almost
one hundred years ago with the invention of Gottlieb
Daimler's belt drive truck, a feeble four-horsepower
machine that had two speeds forward and one in reverse.
Two years later, in 1898, the German invention was
bested by a truck produced by the Winton Company of
the United States, which boasted a whopping six-horse-
power, single-cylinder engine. Before long, the truck
began to evolve, given more horsepower and hauling
capacity. The truck also found its way into warfare, first
being used during World War I on a few battlefields. In
World War II, the horse was virtually replaced by trucks
on nearly every front. Today, the trucking industry is one
of the largest in the United States, with big tractor-trailers
hauling goods thousands of miles every day. Modern
trucks burn diesel fuel almost exclusively in engines
which produce over four hundred-horsepower and drive
as many as sixteen forward gears, a far cry from the
Daimler's invention one hundred years ago.
No. 91-12
©1991 The Maximum Card Collection
A division of Unicover Corporation . Cheyenne, WY 82008-0007
® Original painting for the Maximum Card by Basil Smith
