Kenworth Old Truck Photo

 

Kenworth

This company was originally founded in 1916 as the Gerlinger Motor Company and specialized in trucks for the logging industry. In recent years it became part of the Paccar Group which also owns Peterbilt. Towards the end of the Seventies its range consisted of the C500, K100 and Super 953 models. Within each of these designations is a range of models. The C500 models, for example, are heavy duty trucks fitted with the equipment for specialized operations such as earth moving, logging and mixing. As well as specifying the body type the customer could choose between Detroit, Caterpillar and Cummins engines. In the K100 trucks both normal control and cabover models were manufactured as the tractor units for semi-trailers.

The Super 953 models are monstrous six-wheel-drive oilfield trucks used off- highway for large scale projects.

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