Looking back in Springfield: The packed Motor Truck Drive Away Company holiday banquet

Photo courtesy of the Clark County Historical Society.

Credit: HANDOUT

Credit: HANDOUT

Photo courtesy of the Clark County Historical Society.

This photo shows employees and their spouses on Nov. 15, 1937 at the holiday banquet for the Motor Truck Drive Away Company.

Rather than driving transport trucks that held multiple vehicles, something that didn’t become common until later, drivers for the company were responsible for driving each newly built large motor truck around the country, delivering them to the companies that had purchased them.