REO Speed Wagon
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The REO Speed Wagon was a light motor truck model manufactured by REO Motor Car Company. It is an ancestor of the pickup truck.
Badge from a REO Speed Wagon Fire Truck
A REO Speed Wagon, from a 1917 advertisement
A REO Speed Wagon Fire Truck at Jack Daniel's Distillery, Lynchburg, Tennessee
1929 REO Speedwagon EX REO at the Iowa 80 Trucking Museum. 6 cylinder Flathead "Gold Comet", 4-speed transmission, Top speed of 35 MPH
Ransom E. Olds
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Ransom Eli Olds was an American businessman and executive who was known as a pioneer of the American automotive industry, after whom the Oldsmobile and REO brands were named. He claimed to have built
REO Speed Wagon
…is an ancestor of the pickup truck. First introduced in 1915, production continued through at least 1953, and made REO (the initials of its founder, Ransom Eli Olds) one of the better-known manufacturers of commercial vehicles in America prior to World War II. Although the basic design and styling of the chassis…
Portrait of Olds, c. 1920
Ransom Eli Olds first gasoline-powered car in 1896
Ransom E. Olds, c. 1901
Ransom Olds on his single-seat racecar Olds Pirate, c. 1896/1897