U.S. Army Fire Trucks 1925-1942
World War I accelerated America’s transition from horses to motorized transportation. The U.S. Army Transportation Museum website (http://www.transchool.eustis.army.mil/Museum/LIBTrucks.htm) lists forty-six truck manufacturers that contributed to the development of Army trucks during the war, resulting in the production of 118,000 trucks for the military. Of these, only 51,554 were shipped overseas. The most famous of these trucks was the “Liberty” Truck. The Liberty Class B, also known as the Standard B, was a three ton, 4×2 workhorse propelled by a 425 cubic inch, four-cylinder, fifty-two horsepower engine.
