This may be the sole running prototype ever built of the stillborn
Martin truck, as proposed by the Martin Aeroplane Company, then based
in Garden City, New York, on Long Island. The documents we received indicate that the truck actually came out of Rochelle Park,
New Jersey, just west of New York City, and in the photo, it's wearing
a New Jersey license plate from the 1940s.
This tiny rig ran on a
wheelbase of just 60 inches, and boasted an "aeroplane-type rubber
suspension." Why it never saw production, we can't say, although the
Depression's onset probably had something to do with it.
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