Artist's License

 

I took a bit of artist's license with this photo from @mozarts_ride, but the description he gives about Corbitt Trucks still holds.

On instagram, he says:

Early 1940s Corbitt Henderson Truck…. I spotted this beauty at the Gold King Mine. ….. “In 1910 the Corbitt Company, owned by Richard J. Corbitt, built its first truck, and in 1913, they decided to become a full-time truck builder. For most of the next 40 years, the company made money, building trucks and trailers. The trailers included vans, drop-frame vans, and flatbeds up to 36’ in length. Most of the large motor carriers of the Carolina’s came to be Corbitt customers. In 1917 the company built North Carolina’s first school buses. In 1917-18, it supplied trucks to the US Army and Navy. It started building 4x4s and 6x6s for the Army in the early to mid-1930s.. This relationship with the Army would continue during WWII.” Sadly, the North Carolina company closed during 1953-54.. (Corbitt Trucks) ⁣