1940 White Horse

      White Motor Company made Heavy Duty Trucks for many years. The 1930’s was the time that home delivery of many different products and services was getting started. White Motor Company decided they wanted to be part of that growing market and they came out with a model called “Horse”. So the name that you would call this new truck was a “White Horse”.
      These trucks had some design differences compared to other delivery trucks of the time. The rear suspension was different because they used coil springs for the rear axle compared to the leaf springs that all other trucks used. Another big different item was the engine. The engines in these White Horse Trucks were Franklin air-cooled engines. This will be challenging when it comes to work on the engine because we never worked on these engines before. Ed O’Brien, a member of our Divco Club, has one White Horse truck that is operational and in very good shape as an original truck. He hasn’t refurbished it in any way since he got it from a Dairy that formerly owned it.
      I bought this truck from California and it was stored in a shed for 15 years or so and is in good condition. The second White Horse that I own is from a junkyard in Uniontown, Pa. The junkyard truck will be used as a parts truck to refurbish this California truck. Neither of these trucks are Stand & Drive units but we are going to try to convert it to a Stand & Drive truck if we can.