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Hemmings Motor News has been around since 1954. We're proud of our heritage, but we're also more than the Hemmings full of classifieds that your father subscribed to. Aside from new editorial content every month in Hemmings, we have three monthly magazines: Hemmings Muscle Machines, Hemmings Classic Car and Hemmings Sports and Exotic Car.

While our editors traverse the country to find the best content for those magazines, we find other oddities related to the old-car hobby that we really had no place for - until now. With this blog, we're giving you a behind-the-scenes look at what we see and what we do during the course of putting out some of the finest automotive magazines you'll ever read.

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The Mechanized Pony Express

Posted October 27, 2009 12:01 AM by dstrohl

After running that pic of the postal Jeep the other day, we got a hankering for some postal vehicle history. No sooner did we get that hankering than we came across George Hamlin's article on that exact topic in SIA #56, April 1980. Hamlin covers the first several decades of postal vehicle history well, with a couple test drives of some unique purpose-built delivery vehicles.

Here's an excerpt:

"Most of the early automobiles out on the routes were not government property. The oldest vehicles so far encountered in photographic records are Wintons, circa 1899. There were probably others, and early photographs show a wide variety of body styles and propulsion systems: a 1904 Knox Waterless delivery truck in Saint Louis, a 1906 Studebaker electric in New York, a 1906 White steamer in Boston, two 1906 Columbias in Baltimore – the latter being the department's first government-owned."

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10/27/2009 12:38 PM

That Vanlet looks cute...

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10/28/2009 8:53 AM

I like the 1915 Wagonhals.

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