Re: Vehicles: This one's for South Park

Posted by Jim Courtney on
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I was browsing through my Colorado book collection this afternoon and found this beauty:



Fort Lewis College, Center of Southwest Studies, in Buys, Christian J, Historic Telluride in Rare Photographs, page 207.


The caption dates the photo to July, 1915. This is presumably a utility repair truck of the Telluride Power Company, that provided electricity for the town and surrounding mines and mills.

Heavy power pole cross arms are stacked neatly on the sides of the truck bed, with ceramic insulators piled on top. The long wooden poles were evidently used to manipulate "hot" power wires safely out of the way, while changing out insulators.

Make of the vehicle uncertain, speculated to be a Dodge Brothers product. Note the chains on the tires -- handy in mud as well as snow??