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◊ 2010-09-19 18:08 |
This might be a Grumman-Olson Kurbmaster. |
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◊ 2013-08-28 19:55 |
The white and yellow one is a Grumman, the little green and yellow one is Union City Body. |
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◊ 2013-08-29 17:38 |
the green/yellow was listed as Chevrolet: /vehicle_42086-Chevrolet-Step-Van-P-10-1969.html |
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◊ 2013-08-29 17:54 |
Yes, and it is Chevrolet, but with Union City body. That's mean - Union City most of the time DIDN'T produced vans under it's own make, but produced bodies only for others manufacturers. -- Last edit: 2013-08-29 17:58:46 |
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◊ 2013-08-29 18:02 |
"During the early 50s, they marketed their own line of step vans under the Utility brand. The step vans were manufactured by Utility Truck Distributors Inc. of Union City, as division of Union City Body Co. The firm continued to offer forward-control aluminum step van bodies for Ford, Dodge, GMC, and Chevrolet chassis until 1957 when an exclusive agreement was signed with Chevrolet and GMC Truck & Coach division. During the 1970s and 1980s Union City began providing vans directly to large fleet customers such as United Parcel Service. They also built revised bodywork that could be placed on International, Freightliner or Navistar chassis in addition to General Motors products." From: http://www.coachbuilt.com/bui/u/union_city/union_city.htm In other words - from 1957 Chevrolet Step Van and GMC Value Van were produced only by Union City, but marketed as Step Vans/Value Vans. Similar case was later with Workhorse Step Vans and Utilimasters... -- Last edit: 2013-08-29 18:05:22 |
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◊ 2013-08-29 18:06 |
The problem is that for many we do not know the chassis. Now we have several listed directly as UCBC (instead of Grumman-Olson). It seemed a used acronym, but maybe "Union City" as make is more right? -- Last edit: 2013-08-29 18:07:09 |
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◊ 2013-08-29 18:14 |
But under what brand? Rather not Utility...? Edit: Now they are listed as UCBC Step Vans. Full name of the producer is "Union City Body Company Inc.", but on badges on the side of the van is clearly "UCBC": ![[Image: 1995_union_city_body_company_snap_on_tool_truck_10_lgw.jpg]](http://pics.imcdb.org/5605/1995_union_city_body_company_snap_on_tool_truck_10_lgw.jpg) -- Last edit: 2017-11-16 01:25:21 |
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◊ 2013-08-29 19:29 |
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