If you're old enough to remember the milkman, you're probably old enough to remember Divco trucks. The other delivery personnel who came to your home drove Divco trucks, too. Built by the Detroit Industrial Vehicle Company and its successors, Divco trucks were part of the American way of life.

While researching last week's Divco-Jeep Six Degrees Challenge, I plunged into Robert Ebert and John Rienzo's 1997 book, "Divco: A History of the Truck and Company," and found that the two had presented quite a bit of knowledge and photographs of the various factories that produced Divcos over the company's 60-year history. And as it turns out, the last of those factories has a personal connection.

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