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[QUOTE]The Divco truck was built by the Detroit Industrial Vehicle Company and its successors
These trucks became a part of the American way of life. Chances are your milkman drove a Divco truck.
So did most other delivery services. The Divco was manufactured form 1926, until 1986.
The Divco truck was a multi-stop delivery trucks unlike any others.
The only vehicle that stayed in production with the same basic model for a longer period of time was the Volkswagen Beetle.
Today many people consider Divco as the icon for the multi-stop delivery era.
In 1922, George Bacon, Chief Engineer for the Detroit Electric Vehicle Company
designed a remarkable new electric driven milk delivery truck.
It could be driven from four positions, front, rear, or either running board.
However as we know electric trucks were no match for a gasoline powered truck.
This was the main reason the George Bacon and others formed the Detroit Industrial Vehicle Company (D.I.V.CO.)
to produce his invention using a LeRoi gasoline engine.
In 1937 the Divco was completely redesigned with a welded all-steel van body
and a snub-nosed hood which was used with virtually no change up to the end of production.

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Added on April 29, 2009, 5:45 pm