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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 Volts Wagon: LA's EV Experiment of the 1960s

Posted February 18, 2009 5:01 PM by dstrohl

We could spend all week digging up truck photos from the Los Angeles Public Library's photo archive, especially if we were for some reason obsessed with the evolution of the city's rubbish removal trucks (seriously), but we'll spare you that obsession and present a few more of the most interesting trucks and photos.

The above May 1967 photo comes from the Los Angeles Herald-Examiner collection. Attorney Henry G. Bodkin, Water & Power commissioner (taller man of the two) and Edgar Konouse, general manager & chief engineer of the DWP inspects the "Volts Wagon," an electric truck used to research the feasibility in relation to city.

Apparently, the Volts Wagon wasn't very feasible for L.A.

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