WHITE WC22 WITH LOWBOY IN 1-50 SCALE

Excellent.  It is a lovely model and the lowboy would do great hauling some 1:50 construction equipment. 

 I have that same cab in different color/logo with a box trailer-  I plan to try to convert it to 'Streets. 

I have watched these and the Speccast L series International trucks on the net, (the L series was introduced in 1939, and Whites of that period, at that scale, are indistinguishable from these, so useful to me.  Like automobiles, truck styling, for a few years after WWII, was a carryover).  White, of course, built the second

best known, after Stanley, steam car in the early 1900's, and provided the first U.S.

Presidential automobile (for Taft), but I don't remember whether that official car

was steam or gasoline, as White wisely built both about 1910.  I don't remember

when they converted exclusively to trucks, but it was fairly early, maybe in the teens,

and maybe because of success in providing military trucks in WWI.  I wanted a couple

to serve my logging operations.  Speccast offer (ed/s) some earlier bulldozers to load on the truck above, and useful in logging.

There are some interesting models of the white convertibles used as conveyance for the national parks.  The ones at Glacier National park have been restored.

My White Lowboy is pictured here with a IH bulldozer loaded.

I have seen at least one of these buses at Glacier.  I think White bought some parts or

remnants from the Pierce-Arrow auto company, as these look very much like the last

Pierces from the late 1930's, in grille and front sheet metal, except for the lack of the

famous Pierce Arrow fender mounted headlights.  I also think they were originally equipped with the last version of the Pierce Arrow V-12 engine, which engine I also

think found duty in some low volume fire trucks.  I have one of these models somewhere, but don't think it will fit my theme, as I do not think they were used in

Rocky Mountain Natiional Park.

I have three of these buses I repainted and put Milwaukee logos on the doors. They sit at the station to take visitors to town. Don

These are pretty nice models, but the one thing I don't like is the piano hinge on the door.  I presume that this large hinge is so that the doors can open.  Has anyone tried taking off the hinge and gluing the doors in place?

Jim

I think they crank these puppies out by the gross and then paint a dozen each in twelve different colors/logos, so to speak.  Somewhere upstairs, still in boxes, I have two Union Pacific IHC-White tractors along with the trailers to match them and have seen numerous other company livery on them.  Never seen another set like them.  This unit just happens to be IHC.