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Anheuser-Busch - 1910s - 1930s - St. Louis, Missouri |
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prohibition, Anheuser-Busch devoted some of its idle wagon-building capacity
toward the building of truck bodies for other firms. One was a brine-cooled
refrigerated body called the ABC that was sold to dairies and meat packing
companies. A company publication stated “By the use of 150 pounds of ice in
this body, and 30 pounds of salt, an inside temperature of three to ten
degrees above zero can be maintained for a period of 24 hours. The motion of
the tuck in transit circulates the zero brine to produce the low
temperatures inside the truck body”. Toward the end of Prohibition,
Anheuser-Busch redirected this operation to the construction of electrical
refrigeration units for stationary installations. The second well-know body
that the Anheuser-Busch shops built was for the Lampsteed Kampkar, a camping
body that fit on a Ford Model T chassis. The sides of the body folded
downward into a horizontal postion and became beds on each side of the car.
While initial interest was great, it tapered off, and apparently production
ceased in the mid-1920s. The Kampkar bodies could also be mounted on other
chassis; 1921 issue of a company magazine pictures a Kampkar body on a
White. The Anheuser-Busch body shop also built station wagon bodies and bus
bodies. A-B also built horse vans (horse boxes in GB & Europe) for
themselves, some where architectural in design and resembled small houses.
They also built the trailers that hauled their famous Clydesdales from
appearance to appearance. ---- From a 1921 brochure: "Make this the kind of a vacation you've always dreamed about - enjoy the splendor of Yellowstone, the majesty of the Grand Canyon, visit balmy Palm Beach or the great North Woods. Go anywhere you wish - on your own schedule, over your own railroad system in your own private car, stopping at your own hotel, eating your own cooking at your own table - all in great comfort and at a price you can easily afford. The Lampsteed Kampkar Body, complete with full equipment and ready to mount on a standard model "T" Ford Chassis costs only $535.00 including war tax." Manufactured by Anheuser -Busch, St. Louis MO from 1921-1926. ---- The Lamstead Kampkar, invented by Samuel B. Lambert (the same Lambert Family of Listerine fame), was manufactured by A-B and advertised as the ".only practical and complete car for touring and camping ever devised." The Kampkar shell fit perfectly on a Ford chassis. The sides of the car folded down, in the fashion of a Pullman berth, and the seat and side cushions combined to make a bed 42 inches wide on each side of the car. --- The A-B vehicle department – started in 1926 - was discontinued in 1931 when the manufacture of refrigerated coolers commenced. (Kampkars were built at least from 1915 through 1933) xxxxx Anheuser-Busch Body Works - Lamsteed Kampkar - St. Louis, Missouri - Another small body was the Lamsteed Kampkar, built mainly - if not exclusively - for the Model T Ford chassis. It was built in St. Louis, Missouri, by the Anheuser-Busch body works, which was branching out from manufacturing only beverage bodies. One Kampkar has been restored and is on display at Harrah's automobile collection in Reno, Nevada. The body had two double beds, which fold outward at night. During the day, part of the bed was folded along the edge of each side of the body while the rest formed two parallel benches, running along both insides of the body. The front of the left bench was also the driver's seat and featured a movable backrest, as did the seat of the rider opposite him. Canvas covers could be placed over the fold-down beds. Cooking was apparently done outside. SIA#176 pp12-13 -- ANHEUSER-BUSCH - St. Louis, Missouri - (1917 et. seq.) -In 1903 the Anheuser-Busch Brewing Association of St. Louis experimented with the idea of delivering beer by horseless carriage. The two trucks ordered built that year were electrically powered and said to be the largest of the kind in the world. Twentyfour feet long and ten feet wide, they had a capacity of 30,000 pounds worth of brew, and didn't work out at all well. Subsequently, Anheuser-Busch did go automotive with a better idea for delivery, and inaugurated a vehicle department itself that designed and manufactured truck and bus bodies. This was a particularly advantageous activity during those years when the company's principal product was not legal. During World War I, with the arrival of Prohibition, Anheuser-Busch also marketed a new non-alcoholic concoction of barley malt, rice, hops, yeast, and water called Bevo (from the Bohemian word "pivo" for beer). To promote this beverage, the company had a special automobile built on a Pierce-Arrow chassis, an unusual vehicle with a distinct mariner appearance that was dubbed the Bevo Boat. During the war, the Bevo Boat was used to promote the sale of war bonds. After the Armistice, two further versions were produced, the last during the mid-Twenties. With the repeal of Prohibition in 1933, Bevo the beverage was discontinued and the Bevo Boat was rechristened "the Budweiser car." xxxxx
1930 CADILLAC BEVO BOAT
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For more information please read: G.N. Georgano & G. Marshall Naul - The Complete Encyclopedia of Commercial Vehicles Albert Mroz - Illustrated Encyclopedia of American Trucks & Commercial Vehicles Denis Miller - The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Trucks and Buses Tad Burness - American Truck Spotter's Guide, 1920-1970 Tad Burness - American Truck & Bus Spotter's Guide, 1920-1985 Robert M Roll - American trucking: A seventy-five year odyssey David Jacobs - American Trucks: A photographic essay of American Trucks and Trucking David Jacobs - American Trucks: More Colour Photographs of Truck & Trucking John Gunnell - American Work Trucks: A Pictorial History of Commercial Trucks 1900-1994 George W. Green - Special-Use Vehicles: An Illustrated History of Unconventional Cars and Trucks Daniel D. Hutchins - Wheels Across America: Carriage Art & Craftsmanship Ronald G. Adams - 100 Years of Semi Trucks Stan Holtzman - Big Rigs: The Complete History of the American Semi Truck Stan Holtzman & Jeremy Harris Lipschultz - Classic American Semi Trucks Stan Holtzman - Semi Truck Color History Donald F. Wood - American Beer Trucks Donald F. Wood - Beverage Trucks: Photo Archive Donald F. Wood - Commercial Trucks Donald F. Wood - Delivery Trucks Donald F. Wood - Gas & Oil Trucks Donald F. Wood - Logging Trucks 1915 Through 1970: Photo Archive Donald F. Wood - New Car Carriers 1910-1998 Photo Album Donald F. Wood - RVs & Campers 1900-2000: An Illustrated History Donald F. Wood - Wreckers and Tow Trucks Gini Rice - Relics of the Road Gini Rice - Relics of the Road - Impressive International Trucks 1907-1947 Gini Rice - Relics of the Road - Keen Kenworth Trucks - 1915-1955 Richard J. Copello - American Car Haulers Niels Jansen - Pictorial History of American Trucks John B. Montville - Refuse Trucks: Photo Archive Bill Rhodes - Circus and Carnival Trucks 1941-2000: Photo Archive Howard L. Applegate - Coca-Cola: Its Vehicles in Photographs 1930 Through 1969: Photo Archive James T. Lenzke & Karen E. O'Brien - Standard Catalog of American Light-Duty Trucks: 1896-2000 James K. Wagner - Ford Trucks since 1905 Fred Crismon - International Trucks Don Bunn - Encyclopedia of Chevrolet Trucks
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