Delivery Truck Carrying McClary's Cooking Utensils in Cartons (Front View), London, Ontario

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Creator

Hines Studio, Photographer

Media Type

Image

Item Type

Photographs

Description

This black and white non-glossy print gives a frontal view of a delivery truck for McClary's Manufacturing set up on boards supported by four metal milk churns. The letters B & R are on the front grill and the license plate "C12-334 ONT-1923" is visible on the squared front bumper. The McClary name is printed on the storage cabinet behind the truck cab. Cartons are stacked up to three high on the rear truck platform.

Notes

Inscription is handwritten on the back of the print.

This photograph is featured on p.88 of Alan Noon's book: "East of Adelaide: photographs of commercial, industrial and working-class urban Ontario." His research describes how the photographer borrowed the truck from McClary's in 1923 to illustrate the strength of the Silverwood milk churns that McClary's manufactured. A similar photograph with a clearer view of the side of this Barton and Rumble truck can be seen in this image gallery under a similar title.

The map location assigned, is for McClary's Foundry which in 1923 was located on the west side of Adelaide near Nelson Street.
PG E13

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