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October 1921. Frederick, Maryland. "Washington Herald tours -- Duplex truck, Frederick Fair." National Photo Company Collection glass negative. View full size.
Hoover Bodies went from building truck bodies to building caskets. It survived the depression and continued in business through WWII by making ambulance bodies, cargo boxes and trailers. After the war it manufactured commercial dairy and step-van bodies into the mid 1950s.
In 1958, York-Hoover decided to concentrate its efforts on casket-making and sold the assets of its Truck Body Division to the Pittman Manufacturing Co. York-Hoover’s surviving casket division is now known as the York Group, and is the second largest producer of caskets in the United States.
The Great Frederick Fair has survived.
Frederick County's single largest event, featuring 18,000 competitive exhibits, ranging from livestock, home arts, farm & garden to 4-H/FFA. A premier showcase for agriculture and education. Talent coming this fall Creedence Clearwater Revisited and the Temptations.
In the 'Alternate View', the vehicle appears to have a 'drag' attached by chains.
A drag is used to level the ruts in an unpaved road, or to eliminate vehicle tracks for film production. In the depicted instance, I suspect that the drag was used in an equestrian arena. The drag shown here has had brush cuttings attached to its trailing edge, probably to produce a smooth, photogenic surface devoid of the characteristic small ridges that remain behind the drag.
In addition to a fleet of Duplex buses used by the Washington Rapid Transit Company, which can be seen here, there was also a platoon of Duplex trucks on duty with the Washington branch of the Post Office Department. One of these trucks is below along with an ad for the fair from the Adams County Independent in Littlestown, Pennsylvania, and a summary of the gate receipts from the Catoctin Clarion in Mechanicstown, Maryland.
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