Mack

Mack Trucks, Inc., is an American truck�manufacturing company and a former manufacturer of buses and trolley buses. Founded in 1900 as the Mack... more

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Mack

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Lisa Wooten

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Mack Trucks, Inc., is an American truck�manufacturing company and a former manufacturer of buses and trolley buses. Founded in 1900 as the Mack Brothers Company, it manufactured its first truck in 1907 and adopted its present name in 1922.[2] Mack Trucks is a subsidiary of AB Volvo which purchased Mack along with Renault Trucks in 2000.[3] After being founded in Brooklyn, New York, the company's headquarters were in Allentown, Pennsylvania, from 1905 to 2009, when they moved to Greensboro, North Carolina.[4] The entire line of Mack products is still produced in Macungie, Pennsylvania,[5] with additional assembly plants in Pennsylvania, Maryland, Australia, and Venezuela.
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Operations[edit]
Currently, the company's manufacturing facilities are located at the Macungie Assembly Operations Plant in Lower Macungie Township, Pennsylvania. Mack Trucks is one of the top producers in the vocational and on-road vehicle market, class 8 through class 13. It is also one of the most popular manufacturers of heavy-duty off-road trucks in the United States.[citation needed]
Mack trucks have been sold in 45 countries. The Macungie, Pennsylvania, manufacturing plant, located near its former Allentown corporate headquarters, produces all Mack products. The Mack MP-series engine, Mack transmissions, the TC-15 transfer cases, and rear engine power take-offs are designed and manufactured in Hagerstown, Maryland, which, according to local historians, was the original factory location.[citation needed]
Parts for Mack's right-hand-drive vehicles are produced in Brisbane, Australia, for worldwide distribution. Assembly for South America is done at Mack de Venezuela C.A., in Caracas, Venezuela. The Venezuela operation is a complete knock down (CKD) facility. Components are shipped from the United States to Caracas, and the plant then does the final assembly.
In addition to its Macungie manufacturing facility, Mack also has a remanufacturing center in Middletown, Pennsylvania, where it takes used parts and refurbishes them for resale and reuse. History[edit]
Corporation timeline[edit]
This is a timeline of Mack Trucks history. Most of the information is taken from the Mack history page at MackTrucks.com, unless otherwise noted.[7]

Early bus

Mack truck used to carry ore at the Acosta Mine Museum in Real del Monte, Hidalgo State, Mexico.

Mack AC-model flatbed delivery truck at the Petersen Automotive Museum

The Hale 100-inch mirror for Mount Wilson Observatory on its way up the Mount Wilson Toll Road on a Mack truck in 1917.

This 1939 Mack truck that has been restored and is on display at the YRC Freight headquarters in Overland Park, Kansas.

Mack 6x4 N-model 4-to-6 ton wrecker; (photo dated 15 May 1941: National Archives c/o Olive-Drab.com)

Mack NO-6 artillery tractor

B Model (1953-1966)

A Mack C-49-DT bus built in 1956.

R Series (1965-2005)

1982 MC fire engine (1978-1990)
1890: John M. ("Jack") Mack gets a job at Fallesen & Berry, a carriage and wagon company in Brooklyn, New York.
1893: John Mack and his brother, Augustus F. ("Gus") Mack, buy the company John worked for.
1894: A third Mack brother, William C. Mack, joins his brothers in the company's operations. The Macks try working with steam powered and electric motor cars.
1900s: Inspired by Orville and Wilbur Wright, Willis Carrier and Henry Ford's inventions, John Mack has a vision of producing heavy duty trucks and engines.
1900: The Macks open their first bus manufacturing plant. The "Mack bus", ordered by a sightseeing company, is delivered.
1902: The Mack Brothers Company established in New York
1904: The company introduces the name "Manhattan" on its products
1905: Allentown selected as the home of main manufacturing operations, and headquarters. A fourth Mack brother, Joseph Mack, becomes a stockholder. Mack begins making rail cars and locomotives.
1910: The "Manhattan" trucks are since known as "Mack" trucks. Charles Mack, a fifth Mack brother, joins the company.
1911: The Saurer Motor Truck Company, headed by C.P. Coleman, had the rights to manufacture and sell heavy trucks under the Saurer brand name at its plant in Plainfield, New Jersey. On September 23, 1911, the Saurer Motor Truck Company merged with the Mack Brothers Motor Car Company of Allentown, headed by J. M. Mack, to form the International Motor Truck Company (IMTC). IMTC would continue to make and sell trucks using the Saurer name until 1918. The capitalization of IMTC was $2.6 million total ($1.6m for Saurer, or 61.5%, and $1.0m for Mack Brothers).[8]
1912: Brothers John and Joseph Mack leave.
1919: The United States Army conducts a transcontinental project using Mack Trucks to study the need for national highway systems.
1922: The company name is changed to Mack Trucks, Inc. The bulldog is accepted as the company's corporate symbol.
1924: John Mack dies in a car crash in Weatherly, Pennsylvania.
1932: While recuperating from an operation, Alfred Fellows Masury, Mack's chief engineer, carved the first bulldog hood ornament. Masury applied for and received a patent for his design; the bulldog ornament has adorned Mack trucks ever since.
1933: Mack Trucks helps in the building of many American structures, including the Hoover Dam.
1941: Fire Apparatus manufacturing moved from Allentown, Pennsylvania, to Long Island City, New York (in Queens).
1951: Fire Apparatus manufacturing moved back to Allentown, Pennsylvania, from Long Island City, New York.
1956: Mack Trucks, Inc., buys Brockway Motor Company. (Brockway ceases in 1977)
1966: Mack begins production at its assembly plant in Oakville, Ontario, Canada. The facility closed in 1993.
1967: Mack Trucks becomes a part of the Signal Oil and Gas Company in a one-for-one exchange for cumulative convertible preferred stock. Later that year Signal changes its name to The Signal Companies, Inc.
1970: Mack moves into its new Allentown world headquarters.
1979: Renault buys 10% of Mack Trucks, Inc.
1982: Renault increases ownership stake to 20%, Signal lowers its stake to 10%.
1983: Mack Trucks conducts an IPO and issues 15.7 million shares of common stock. Renault increases holdings to 40%, while Signal reduces its stake to 10.3%.
1987: Renault reorganizes; Renault V�hicules Industriels buys Renault's Mack shares.
1990: Mack Trucks becomes a wholly owned subsidiary of Renault V�hicules Industriels when remaining publicly traded shares acquired at $6.25 per share.
2001: Mack together with Renault V�hicules Industriels becomes part of Volvo AB of Sweden, the parent company Renault S. A. receives a 20% stake in the combined company. (In 2002 Renault V�hicules Industriels changes its name to Renault Trucks.)
2006: Mack has a record sale year.
2008: Mack announces relocation of corporate headquarters to Greensboro, North Carolina. Wikipedia

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