Mack museum

[Bobby j]

All I'm kinda new here and have noticed several posts about how mack museum will send you build sheets, manuals, etc about your truck. could anyone give me any contact information such as name, air dress,phone number, website, contact person?....... Any help would be most appreciated.. Many thanks

[Doug Maney]

The Mack Trucks Historical Museum is a great benefit to us as Mack enthusiasts. No other manufacturer has information available to their customers as Mack Trucks. There is no specific person that is the contact at the Museum. There is simply a group of knowledgeable Mack Veteran employees there to research and supply us information when we request it. Donations are suggested and put directly back into the Museum. When you receive the information you requested, you will be an even bigger Mack fan. Doug

The Mack Trucks Historical Museum is the repository of historical documents and artifacts from Mack's long and storied history as the leading American truck manufacturer and world-renowned brand name. The collection and curators at the Mack Museum connect Mack enthusiasts and casual visitors alike to the rich legacy of "The Greatest Name in Trucks."

Among the antique vehicles in the Museum's collection is one of the original sightseeing buses built by Jack and Augustus Mack in the first decade of the twentieth century. The gas-operated, open-air bus carried up to 26 tourists at a time around the streets and sights of Chicago in the summer and New Orleans in the winter for 25 years and more than a million miles of service, before returning to Mack as the anchor of its antique truck collection.

Also in the collection is a 1911 Mack Jr. that shared the streets with horse-drawn wagons as it made it's rounds delivering dry goods and produce. It's the final truck design attributed to the Mack brothers before they sold their company to investors in 1911.

Then there's the 1918 AC model, one of 4,100 built for World War I. Although there's no bulldog on the hood of this early Mack truck, it was the AC that earned the name while it was busy dodging bullets and trudging through the mud in France. The truck's unique blunt-nosed design reminded British troops of their own bulldogs. So did it's tenacious ability to get through anything with the supplies needed at the front.

The AC and the Mack Jr. are two of the Mack Museum treasures currently on loan to the America on Wheels Transportation Museum in Allentown, PA.

For many visitors, the museum's real treasures aren't made of steel at all, but of paper and celluloid. There are more than 80,000 photos in the collection, many dating back to 1905. And there are records -- documentation of virtually all the trucks made by Mack since its early days. If you were to come across an old AB truck under a tarp in a barn, there was a record made when it was built. The company's been doing it for every chassis manufactured since 1905, and except for a few rare cases, all those records are filed here.

When requesting information about a particular truck from the Mack Museum, please provide the complete chassis number and your postal address so that we can get your information to you as quickly as possible.

Museum Hours:

Monday, Wednesday, Friday
10:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.

Tour Schedule:

• 10:00 am
• 10:30 am
• 11:00 am
• 11:30 am
• 12:30 pm

• 1:00 pm
• 1:30 pm
• 2:00 pm
• 2:30 pm
• 3:00 p.m

Museum will be Closed:

• Tuesdays, Thursdays and Weekends
• Weeks of: May12th, May 19th and June 2nd due to sales & dealer training.
• Holidays: May 26th, July 4th, Nov 27-28th, Dec 25-26th, Jan 1st.

Group tours (10+ people) can be scheduled by calling: 610 351-8404

Historical requests and general questions:
call: 610 351-8999 or email: mack.museum@macktrucks.com

Don Schumaker, Curator
2402 Lehigh Parkway South
Allentown, PA 18103
Telephone: 610 351-8413
Fax: 610 351-8756
Email: Donald.Schumaker@consultant.macktrucks.com

Carol Glass, Museum Administrator
2402 Lehigh Parkway South
Allentown, PA 18103
Telephone: 610 351-8404
Fax: 610 351-8756
Email: mack.museum@macktrucks.com

[Bobby j]

WOW..................thank you Doug I never expected this much.........you went over and above what I ask for......old school way of doing things nobody does this anymore again thanks

[41chevy]

WOW..................thank you Doug I never expected this much.........you went over and above what I ask for......old school way of doing things nobody does this anymore again thanks

Don and his staff does all volenteeres too. Great group there! Paul

[57 bcr]

Always give a donation for the wealth of information these guys send you. Once your info arrives,you'll see what I mean. Can't thank these guys enough.

[1958 F.W.D.]

Yes. If you make a request for your factory file, there is an 8-10 week backlog due to the number of requests that they receive. And when you get your box in the mail, write them a check and dont be cheap!

[brutus998]

Can you email Don your serial numbers or is it just best to send it through the mail?

[Vladislav]

Email worked for me fine.

Just don't fill them up with questions, looks like they owerloaded with requests.

[yarnall]

You can call it in too. Rose will answer the phone.

[Bobby j]

I called the museum last week gave a very nice lady my numbers over the phone she told me about a four to five week wait......she even asked for my telephone numbers in case they ran into problems......seems like a top notch operation........bobby j