White Gilmore Streamline Tanker 1935 by Autocult
Perfectly
shaped at the gas station
In
the 1930s many American companies felt called to refresh their image with specially
designed trucks. Additionally, these trucks attracted considerable attention
and interest. The press willingly reported about these unique and beautiful
trucks and also on the public the trucks made a positive impression.
One
of these companies, which decided to modernise and replace its vehicle fleet,
was the ‘Gilmore Oil Company’. Founded in 1903 and holding almost 3,500 gas
stations the company was well-known on the West Coast of the USA. Around 1935
the desire to replace the conventional fuel tank trucks, which served to supply
the gas stations with fuel, by more extravagant trucks emerged and the
48-year-old company owner Earl Bell Gilmore contacted the body maker ‘Advance
Auto Body Works’.
The
Designer Wellington Everett Miller created a new body and went for a Cab-Over-Engine
design – or short COE, meaning that the driver’s cab was directly positioned
over the front axle and also above the engine. Advantage of this design was the
enlargement of the passenger compartment, by which the Gilmore driver’s cab offered
space for four passengers. The overall roundish design merged over distinctive front
fenders into the structure of the fuel tank and the clean silhouette ended in a
round rear end. Noteworthy were also the tear-drop-shaped superstructures at
the roof, which subtly covered the filling ports for the fuel and perfectly fit
into the aerodynamic streamline shape of the truck. Likewise not harming the aerodynamical
concept of the design was the almost covered twin rear axle of the car, which
additionally gave the design a certain “solidness and strength” – as an article
in a magazine stated.
Description: | White Gilmore Streamline Tanker 1935 |
Catalogue#: | ATC11012 |
Product Type: | Resincast |
Scale: | 1:43 |
Event: | Road, Concept Cars |
Colour: | - |
Drivers: | - |
Sponsors: | Gilmore |
Dates: | 1935 |
Race/Position: | - |
Release Date: | July 2020 |
Weight: | 750 grams |
Comments: | Limited edition of 333 pieces. |
About Autocult
A relatively new maker of very well finished resincast models, established in 2015. Very imaginative choice of subjects, often concentrating on the more eccentric episodes in motoring history! Production limited to 333 pieces of each subject, which often means that we get one delivery and that is it, so pre-orders strongly recommended!! Made in China for Germany.