General Category => Brochures and other Literature => Topic started by: kartjockey on July 11, 2014, 08:28:56 PM

Title: Tow Bar assembly
Post by: kartjockey on July 11, 2014, 08:28:56 PM
had these in my archives. maybe it will help identify originality of Relics tow bar.
Title: Re: Tow Bar assembly
Post by: relic on July 11, 2014, 10:12:48 PM
Kartjockey that is it! I was at Jim Lokie's house on Thursday and found a black and white picture in a 1954 Speigal Catalog of a Simplex Truck with the same tow bar setup-I will post it here.
Title: Re: Tow Bar assembly
Post by: relic on July 11, 2014, 10:25:38 PM
Here is a few pics from a 1954 Spring edition Speigel Catalog
Title: Re: Tow Bar assembly
Post by: relic on July 11, 2014, 10:31:16 PM
In this add Simplex even had a leather jacket! would love to see a original jacket!
Title: Re: Tow Bar assembly
Post by: kartjockey on July 12, 2014, 03:05:26 AM
These pics certainly provide hard evidence of what was available back then. Super cool to me!
Title: Re: Tow Bar assembly
Post by: kartjockey on July 12, 2014, 03:13:15 AM
how is it the flywheel of the truck is on the left side?
Title: Re: Tow Bar assembly
Post by: Ricks on July 12, 2014, 06:25:06 AM
Quote from: kartjockey on July 12, 2014, 03:13:15 AM
how is it the flywheel of the truck is on the left side?

Reverse image misprint?  All the stuff is backwards, including brake pedal and air cleaner.
Title: Re: Tow Bar assembly
Post by: Ricks on July 12, 2014, 06:32:42 AM
Quote from: relic on July 11, 2014, 10:31:16 PM
In this add Simplex even had a leather jacket! would love to see a original jacket!

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 Being this was in a Speigel catalog,  there is a good chance that the leather jacket was not Simplex, but who knows?
Title: Re: Tow Bar assembly
Post by: Ricks on July 12, 2014, 06:36:11 AM
Also interesting is the fact that the tow bar parts list does not list the welded on plates, but does list the extended rocker studs for use with the tow bar.  I wonder why Simplex changed from one to the other? 

I hope Bob Legron is at Portland, maybe he has some knowledge on this.