TRANSPORT TRUCK

Transport Truck Co. (1918-1925)
Mt. Pleasant, Michigan 

This is a Transport truck radiator emblem (c1920)  hatm

The Transport Truck Company moved into a manufacturing plant in Mt. Pleasant, Michigan in 1918 and began by producing 1-ton, 1-1/2-ton and 2-ton capacity trucks, built using off the shelf components.

In 1920, Transport introduced a 27 hp four-cylinder 2-1/2-ton Model 50 truck and, for 1925, there was a 3-1/2-ton capacity Model 61 and a 5-ton capacity Model 75 truck but, along with other smaller truck companies, Transport could not compete with the larger truck manufacturing companies and it was all over later that year.

Emblem

I have not found any details of the light duty Transport trucks, which may have had a conventional radiator. However, the heavier duty trucks had cast iron radiators with the "Transport" name cast into the radiator tank top, as shown in Transport truck advertisements, see example shown below:

Transport truck advertisement (1920)  ebay

Transport truck showing radiator emblem (1920)

The advertisement illustration shown above shows the cast radiator emblem but the truck does not appear to display the "Transport" name on any hood side or chassis frame nameplates.

The following photo shows the same radiator emblem on a rare surviving example of a Transport truck:

Surviving Transport truck showing radiator emblem (c1920)    hatm

A close up showing the cast in radiator emblem is seen above at the top of this post.