Peterbilt

Peterbilt Motors is an American company , Filiale of Paccar, manufacturing Camion S. Its head office is with Denton with the Texas.

History

At the beginning of the 20th century, Teodore Alfred Peterman, d´une chief undertaken Contreplaqué based with Tacoma is with the catch with a logistic problem of speed and d efficacity of transport of trunks d´arbres of the forest where they were cut down jusqu´ with the Scierie where they are output. Traditional method consisting in letting float trunks on the current d´une river n´étant more sufficiently fast for the modern needs. L´idée de Peterman is then d´utiliser technology Automobile incipient to develop trucks allowing d´assurer transport.

To this end, it buys and gives in state several military trucks, improving their technology progressively of his tests. In 1938, it takes the control of the company Fageol d´ Oakland (manufacturing bus) to meet its need d´un specific Châssis for the trucks. Fageol was then to sell since 1932, but the Grande depression had reduced the value of this company practically to nothing. Peterman could thus l´acquérir for a reasonable sum and starts to produce trucks with transmission by chain for its only use then, as of 1939, for interested purchasers. The Fageol trucks had received the nickname of (Bill-Built) according to the former president of company W.H. Bill. Also it re-elects the Peterbilt company. When T.A. Peterman dies in 1945, his Ida wife sells the company (except the ground on which it is) to seven employees of the direction which will transform it into a true factory of Weight-heavy S. In 1958, Ida Peterman formless of her decision to sell the ground to build a shopping mall there. The shareholders, not very eager to finance construction d´une new factory, then sell the company with Paccar (Pacific Because & Foundry Co), then mainly activates in the construction of Train S and Wagon S, and which wished to increase its market share in the construction of trucks after the repurchase of Kenworth in 1945.

Production centres and localization

Peterbilt has various factories with Madison (since 1969) in Denton (since 1980) and Holy-Therese, Quebec. Beginning of the Years 1960 jusqu´ in the middle of the Years 1980, the company was based in the bay of San Francisco with its general headquarter with Newark. In 1986, the general headquarter is transferred to Denton (causing the closing of the site of Newmark), followed in 1993 by the department d´ Ingénierie.

Principal models

August 1st - ** 359 - ** 377 - ** 378 - ** 379 - ** 379 extended hood - ** 379X (Limited edition) - ** 387 Since 2007 models 388 and 389 replace the 378 and 379

Use with the cinema

Several models of Peterbilt trucks were used with the Cinéma, in particular:

References

See too

External bonds

  • Official site

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