Harrington Mfg. Co. - 1900s-1920s - Peoria, Illinois


1923 Ford Model T Rural Mail Carrier by Harrington Mfg. Co. owned by Dan Noyes of Wolcott VT  

To the left is Dan Noyes' 1923 Ford Model T Mail Truck with a Harrington Mfg. Co. rural mail carrier body.

A Harrington Mfg. Co. publication of October 1917 called "The Light Runner Spokesman" featured 12 pages of pictures of the firm's "Light Runner" wagons, sleighs, carts, harnesses & parcel post wagons. The Owl's Head Transportation Museum in Maine has a Harrington Light Runner Mail Delivery Sleigh on exhibit.

A totally unrelated firm, the Harrington Manufacturing Co. of Lewiston, North Carolina, made "George White", "Field Queen", "Roanoke Junior" and "Roanoke Senior" automatic PTO tobacco balers.

 

   

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