SUPER TRUCK

O'Connell Motor Truck Co. (1919-1936)
Waukegan & Chicago, Illinois

This is a Super Truck nameplate (dates uncertain)    mjs
Size: 395mm wide 64mm high

The Super Truck was best known as a construction service vehicle which had a driver's seat that pivoted around the steering column, allowing for vehicle travel in two directions. This model was called the Super Two-Way Drive with chassis available in a range of sizes from 2-1/2-ton to 7-1/2-ton capacity.

The Super Truck also built conventional four-cylinder trucks with six-cylinder models available from 1928. These were made in sizes from 2-1/2-ton to 7-ton capacity but were only built in small numbers, mainly for local distribution.

Emblems

Information regarding the Super Truck is sparse and I can find photos of only one surviving Super Truck. This is a 3-1/2-ton Super Truck Model 70D from 1923, see below:

This is a Super Truck Model 70D (1923)    aaca

This Super Truck has a painted, cast metal radiator emblem, see below:

This shows the Super Truck radiator emblem (1923)   lktec

If you have a close up photo of the Super Truck radiator emblem, please let me know, in order to update this post.

The O'Connell Motor Truck Company built a range of Manly trucks from 1918 to 1920. The Manly truck had a radiator emblem but also displayed a nameplate attached to the chassis frame below the driver's seat, see Manly advertisement shown below:

Manly truck ad showing chassis side nameplate (1918)  ms

It is reasonable to assume that the painted brass Super Truck nameplate shown above at the top of this post was displayed in a similar location on the Super Truck chassis frame. The Super Truck nameplate shown above at the top of this post is very rare.