Bigdogtrucker Posted February 8, 2013 Share Posted February 8, 2013 GREAT pics,thanks very much for posting them! Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/29832-old-ralph-g-smith-photos/page/2/#findComment-162763 Share on other sites More sharing options...
bullhusk Posted February 8, 2013 Share Posted February 8, 2013 Is that a recabbed BM or BX tractor hooked to the milk trailer?Very interesting truck. Would you mind if I posted the Brockway pics on the Brockway site?Mike be very careful when mixin Bull dogs with Huskies, or you might wind up with a BULLHUSK ! LOL!Ernie 1 Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/29832-old-ralph-g-smith-photos/page/2/#findComment-162781 Share on other sites More sharing options...
kmeitz Posted February 8, 2013 Share Posted February 8, 2013 Awesome photos Ron. I remember renting tractors to the company in the mid 90's when I worked for Penske. It's nice to see a few of the tractors at the truck shows here in eastern PA. Quote Keith http://www.flickr.com/photos/40978025@N04/ Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/29832-old-ralph-g-smith-photos/page/2/#findComment-162814 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post kmeitz Posted February 8, 2013 Popular Post Share Posted February 8, 2013 A few photos from Macungie 2011 4 Quote Keith http://www.flickr.com/photos/40978025@N04/ Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/29832-old-ralph-g-smith-photos/page/2/#findComment-162816 Share on other sites More sharing options...
39 Baby Mack Posted February 8, 2013 Author Share Posted February 8, 2013 A few photos from Macungie 2011Thanks Keith!!Ron Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/29832-old-ralph-g-smith-photos/page/2/#findComment-162818 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Superdog Posted February 8, 2013 Share Posted February 8, 2013 That's a pretty early AB,was it still owned by your family,Ron?? I see it must have had a rear axle translant sometime,as the rear wheels are budds. I never get tired of pics of that F715T of Yarnall's either. Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/29832-old-ralph-g-smith-photos/page/2/#findComment-162822 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post 39 Baby Mack Posted February 8, 2013 Author Popular Post Share Posted February 8, 2013 Mike be very careful when mixin Bull dogs with Huskies, or you might wind up with a BULLHUSK ! LOL!ErnieErnieFirst one of our 400 series Brockways that we pulled the "road oiler" out of and put an ENDT675 in was unit #201.On one of the first trips out with it after the conversion the driver dolled it up with some of those little gold sticky letters that you use to use on mail boxes.Across the front of it right above the grille it said "HUSKYDYNE"Ron 4 Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/29832-old-ralph-g-smith-photos/page/2/#findComment-162823 Share on other sites More sharing options...
39 Baby Mack Posted February 8, 2013 Author Share Posted February 8, 2013 That's a pretty early AB,was it still owned by your family,Ron?? I see it must have had a rear axle translant sometime,as the rear wheels are budds. I never get tired of pics of that F715T of Yarnall's either.MikeIt was gone a long long time ago.As far as I know it was never modified, it's got budds on the front also.It was a bus chassis, maybe that had something to do with it?Ron Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/29832-old-ralph-g-smith-photos/page/2/#findComment-162826 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vladislav Posted February 8, 2013 Share Posted February 8, 2013 Ron, thank you very much, I haven't knew about your relation to that company.Nice pictures of early production units, not to many of on display in the net.That recabbed B is really interesting, I noted its speciallity as far as I saw it.And I also want you to get permission to copy some of the posted images to my computer. Because I might forget the source of them and post on another place. Because I'd like to take them on display to some of my good friends. Quote Никогда не бывает слишком много грузовиков! leversole 11.2012 Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/29832-old-ralph-g-smith-photos/page/2/#findComment-162863 Share on other sites More sharing options...
39 Baby Mack Posted February 8, 2013 Author Share Posted February 8, 2013 Ron, thank you very much, I haven't knew about your relation to that company.Nice pictures of early production units, not to many of on display in the net.That recabbed B is really interesting, I noted its speciallity as far as I saw it.And I also want you to get permission to copy some of the posted images to my computer. Because I might forget the source of them and post on another place. Because I'd like to take them on display to some of my good friends.Help yourself Vlad, I'm glad you enjoyed them!Ron 1 Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/29832-old-ralph-g-smith-photos/page/2/#findComment-162871 Share on other sites More sharing options...
39 Baby Mack Posted February 8, 2013 Author Share Posted February 8, 2013 ErnieFirst one of our 400 series Brockways that we pulled the "road oiler" out of and put an ENDT675 in was unit #201.On one of the first trips out with it after the conversion the driver dolled it up with some of those little gold sticky letters that you use to use on mail boxes.Across the front of it right above the grille it said "HUSKYDYNE"RonOn an added note about this when my brother Tommie and I first saw this we thought all hell would break lose when our father saw it.He didn't usually go for stuff like that.Much to our surprise he actually got quite a kick out of it!Ron Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/29832-old-ralph-g-smith-photos/page/2/#findComment-162907 Share on other sites More sharing options...
bullhusk Posted February 8, 2013 Share Posted February 8, 2013 On an added note about this when my brother Tommie and I first saw this we thought all hell would break lose when our father saw it.He didn't usually go for stuff like that.Much to our surprise he actually got quite a kick out of it!RonI love the name! Thats a great story! My dad put a Mack drive train in a Brock 260 also ! If I remember the Brock had a 2 speed rear an my dad locked it in High, an ran a 673 NA with a dup. (push- pull) trans. through it! Man that was a long long tine ago 1965-66?BULLHUSK 1 Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/29832-old-ralph-g-smith-photos/page/2/#findComment-162948 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Superdog Posted February 9, 2013 Share Posted February 9, 2013 MikeIt was gone a long long time ago.As far as I know it was never modified, it's got budds on the front also.It was a bus chassis, maybe that had something to do with it?RonI was talking about this other AB that kmeitz posted. Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/29832-old-ralph-g-smith-photos/page/2/#findComment-162962 Share on other sites More sharing options...
yarnall Posted February 9, 2013 Share Posted February 9, 2013 This AB was bought as an antique. It sat in their office for years. I tried to buy it, but they didn't like my offer. It went to auction and they ended up getting a few hundred less out of it than my offer after the commission. That was not Ronnie's fault though. The guy who bought it put new tires on the front, fixed the radiator and got it running then drove it to Macungie. It is about a 20 miles. He had a $35,000 price tag on it. Firm. It did not sell. He was the auctioneer at the auction where I bought my AC and he had that in the sale. It didn't bring as much as he wanted so he did not sell it. After I bought the AC a friend, Keith Ernst, who did not bid against me, bought it. He has a great collection of Pennsylvania built trucks, Internationals and Model A Fords. He has some really neat and rare stuff and this was a great addition. I might try to buy it some day, but doubt he will sell it. Mike Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/29832-old-ralph-g-smith-photos/page/2/#findComment-162974 Share on other sites More sharing options...
41chevy Posted February 9, 2013 Share Posted February 9, 2013 MikeIt was gone a long long time ago.As far as I know it was never modified, it's got budds on the front also.It was a bus chassis, maybe that had something to do with it?RonThose were standard on Bus chassis. The Budd's are the same set up on one of my AC's. but were an aftermarket conversion, same as the Good Year Pneumatic wheel conversion kits from the late teens and twenties.I have an original Budd Pneumatic catalog in my AC stuff from about 1919. Paul Quote "OPERTUNITY IS MISSED BY MOST PEOPLE BECAUSE IT IS DRESSED IN OVERALLS AND LOOKS LIKE WORK" Thomas Edison “Life’s journey is not to arrive at the grave safely, in a well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, totally worn out, shouting ‘Holy shit, what a ride!’” P.T.CHESHIRE Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/29832-old-ralph-g-smith-photos/page/2/#findComment-162981 Share on other sites More sharing options...
39 Baby Mack Posted February 9, 2013 Author Share Posted February 9, 2013 I was talking about this other AB that kmeitz posted.Sorry Mike Got confused as to which truck you were talking about.As mike Yarnall stated that truck was bought as an antique in the late sixties.It is an earlier AB built in 1919.Has a worm drive differential rather than the dual reduction which came out I think the following year.First AB's were built with either chain drive or worm drive rear axle, later ones were built with either chain drive or dual reduction rear axle.As for the difference in the wheels I have no idea, maybe they were more common on the worm drive axle?Ron Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/29832-old-ralph-g-smith-photos/page/2/#findComment-163047 Share on other sites More sharing options...
41chevy Posted February 9, 2013 Share Posted February 9, 2013 From what I've found through research and on the AC's I've got, it seems to be a standard up grade on both AB's and AC models. One for a better ride and higher speeds, two for easier maintenance as the solid rubber was an expensive to have replaced and third to match the tires on all the trucks if you had a few units. Rear... any guess is possible, higher speed, what was around at the time or an up grade? The double Reduction was prototyped and tested on an AC and one other unknown Mack ( the Ac is equipped with wooden spoke wheels and pneumatic balloon tires ) in early 1918 and went into production early in 1919 on some trucks and a few buses according to John Montville's book. Mr Schumacker told me that MACK also used up stocks of parts and apparently would use the up graded parts in the early years, so it could have been a late production model. On the Crane carrier I bought after Christmas, it has Good Year wheels on the rear axle and Budds on the front, but the tire sizes match and was converted to a 4 speed trans axle. They are from the time of use what you have to run them I suppose. Paul Quote "OPERTUNITY IS MISSED BY MOST PEOPLE BECAUSE IT IS DRESSED IN OVERALLS AND LOOKS LIKE WORK" Thomas Edison “Life’s journey is not to arrive at the grave safely, in a well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, totally worn out, shouting ‘Holy shit, what a ride!’” P.T.CHESHIRE Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/29832-old-ralph-g-smith-photos/page/2/#findComment-163059 Share on other sites More sharing options...
fxfymn Posted February 9, 2013 Share Posted February 9, 2013 The E model van, or one just like it, sat for a number of years in Bealton, VA on the side of Rte. 17. It disappeared a few years ago, I assume to the scrapper. Quote Money, sex, and fire; everybody thinks everyone else is getting more than they are! Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/29832-old-ralph-g-smith-photos/page/2/#findComment-163109 Share on other sites More sharing options...
dockmen027 Posted February 10, 2013 Share Posted February 10, 2013 In the latest Wheels Of Time (Jan/Feb) on page 60 in the classified section, the H-67 appears to be a former Ralph G Smith Inc tractor, for sale in SC. I can't make out the full number, but it ends in 3. 1 Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/29832-old-ralph-g-smith-photos/page/2/#findComment-163325 Share on other sites More sharing options...
39 Baby Mack Posted February 10, 2013 Author Share Posted February 10, 2013 In the latest Wheels Of Time (Jan/Feb) on page 60 in the classified section, the H-67 appears to be a former Ralph G Smith Inc tractor, for sale in SC. I can't make out the full number, but it ends in 3.That would have to be #223chassis #H673T1353What kind of shape is it in and what do they want for it?Ron Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/29832-old-ralph-g-smith-photos/page/2/#findComment-163338 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brocky Posted February 10, 2013 Share Posted February 10, 2013 RonThere is no price listed, Just a phone # 803-238-0903. This would be a downsate truck due to the area code.Brocky 1 Quote Brocky Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/29832-old-ralph-g-smith-photos/page/2/#findComment-163340 Share on other sites More sharing options...
39 Baby Mack Posted February 10, 2013 Author Share Posted February 10, 2013 Thanks for the information guys!Ron Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/29832-old-ralph-g-smith-photos/page/2/#findComment-163343 Share on other sites More sharing options...
dockmen027 Posted February 10, 2013 Share Posted February 10, 2013 Thanks for the information guys!RonIt's a pretty small photograph, but it doesn't appear to be all bent up, just paint fade and surface rust. Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/29832-old-ralph-g-smith-photos/page/2/#findComment-163349 Share on other sites More sharing options...
1977vega Posted February 10, 2013 Share Posted February 10, 2013 We need pictures and info! Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/29832-old-ralph-g-smith-photos/page/2/#findComment-163450 Share on other sites More sharing options...
farmer52 Posted February 11, 2013 Share Posted February 11, 2013 http://www.aths.org/Media/Default/WOTArchives/current-bl/index.html Quote Ken PRR Country and Charter member of the "Mack Pack" Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/29832-old-ralph-g-smith-photos/page/2/#findComment-163568 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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