Mack Model AL Bus with Parlor Car Body Driving across a Bridge, October 18, 1927

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Artifact Overview

Founded in Brooklyn, New York, in 1900, Mack Brothers Company relocated to Allentown, Pennsylvania, in 1905 and adopted the name Mack Trucks in 1922. Sightseeing buses were the company's first products, and it added other bus designs to its lineup over the years. Mack built more than 22,000 school, transit, and intercity buses before ending bus production in 1960.

Artifact Details

Artifact

Photographic print

Date Made

18 October 1927

Subject Date

18 October 1927

Location

By Request in the Benson Ford Research Center

Object ID

90.1.1747.P.L.1146

Credit

From the Collections of The Henry Ford. Gift of Henry Austin Clark, Jr.

Material

Paper (Fiber product)

Technique

Gelatin silver process

Color

Black-and-white (Colors)

Dimensions

Height: 10.125 in
Width: 8 in