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Sterling Trucks
Sterling trucks now have a home on the website.
Fred Perkins from Weston, MA started a Sterling Registry in 1989 I think and kept it up through seven editions last done in 2005. I began working with Fred on this in 1990 and put the whole thing in a computer so that the information could be sorted in different ways. In 1996 Fred and I spent a trillion hours reviewing Dave Mauro's chassis records and entered all of that data into the roster which then swelled to over 185 pages. We also found 80 parts books in PA and entered that in. Eventually we had 650 known existing Sterlings, 1600 chassis records and a bunch of photographs entered. The book now includes a 5 page explanation in front of model numbers, A numbers, chassis order numbers etc., 10 pages of spec sheets, A list of current owners alphabetically with their trucks, a section which lists all known Sterling owners and their trucks alphabetically by owner, a final section which lists all of the trucks alpha-numerically by model & serial number. The book is now over 210 pages and is available for $18 / copy. This is STUFFED with Sterling information. Email me at wrichardson77@cox.net and you can get a copy. Basically my friend Charlie Johnson from New Hampshire has the books but I can get them to you. Charlie is part author as well - he digs out the owner information and I enter it into the computer. If you contact him he can get them to you as well. Since I haven't told him I'm writing this I'll leave my contact information on here for now, but I may direct emails to him since that would get you the book faster. I'm not sure how many are left - but I think there are a few of them. Tom Siemons was mentioned in this email string - he has been very helpful securing owner and truck information for the roster but hasn't been as directly involved (yet!) as Fred, Charlie or myself. Fred was a real died in the wool Sterling man and a great friend. I miss him a lot as do many in the truck community.
This log hauler is out on the left coast at the LeMay Museum. This collection is declared to be the largest privately owned collection in the country, maybe the world. When I was there (outside Tacoma WA) there were about 1600 vehicles total. It is a must see for enthusiasts if you get in the area. Not much for snowplow equipment however, but a few FWD's and many other big trucks. Bill
Check out the video on the home page of a pair of Sterlings clearing a parking lot
The following photos are of a couple Sterlings sitting at the Ross Brothers yard in Niagara Falls, NY. I made a couple trips up there over the years looking at, and picking parts off a '37 Walter. These two trucks, for the condition they were in, were sold and hauled to the west coast by the proud new owner. God bless the internets for letting us share photos and information.
This truck was sitting at a quarry in somewhere in New Jersey.
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| Anonymous | Tom Siemons? | 0 | Mar 11 2009, 4:58 PM EDT by Anonymous | ||
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The email I have for him is outdated (cs9875 or something like that), anyone who has his current address please invite him to visit the website?
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| ferrology | Bottom photo | 0 | Mar 10 2009, 9:20 PM EDT by ferrology | ||
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First of all thanks for a great job on the Sterling info. to those that worked on it, too bad more people ha dnot preserved the history of all the orphan makes out there. I had contacted Mr. Perkins years ago at Tom Siemon's suggestion to determine if the make of cab was Chicago or Orrville, as I believe Linn changed to that same make as Sterling after WW2, I believe it is the latter, but at that time Mr. Perkins asked someone out in Ohio and reported back that the man "either doesn't know or won't say." (C. 1929 some standard Linns and the 1939-1947 C-series Linns used Highland cabs, but only Chicago and Orrville parts were listed in 1950 Linn factory inventory sheets). The last photo above I took in Feb. 1990 on a ATHS chapter visit to Gary Mahan's collection at Millington Quarry, NJ, although several people had equipment stored there due to zoning issues, and I think they began liquidating not long afterwards, these were fairly close to a commuter rail line as I recall. It's tipped at an angle because they were parked close together. Also there was a 1926(?) Walter wrecker and more old Macks than I ever saw in one place before.
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| Warren_Richardson | Sterling Trucks on this page | 1 | Jan 3 2009, 8:39 PM EST by Bshoesey | ||
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I am familiar with the truck in the top photo to some degree. This truck is a Sterling-White and is mentioned in the Sterling Truck Roster and could be either the HB2001D (shaft drive) or HB2002D (chain drive) since Mario Susi of Milton, MA has one of each. The HB2001D is serial number 2001HB648 with Cummins HRBBD s/n 97122 delivered in 10/52. This truck had a Buda 6DA779 Diesel engine in it at one time according to its build record. The HB2002D carries s/n 2002HB672 and was built with Cummins model HRBBD s/n 95410 and delivered in January of 1952.
Below that is shown a Sterling model HB1604 or HB1904 I think. I am not familiar with this truck in particular. There is an HB1904D s/n 1904HB601 (serial number one of that series) listed in the roster as belonging to Ronald Umstead of Muskegon, MI. Perhaps this is that truck. There is also a model HB1604 s/n 1604HB603 belonging to Delbert DeYoung of Friesland, WI listed – these trucks would be very similar in appearance and were specifically built for plow truck service. The HB1604 was powered by a Waukesha 140GKB gas engine whereas the HB1904D had a Cummins HRBD diesel. Elsewhere in this web site it indicates that the two trucks shown below that came from Ross Bros. In the Buffalo, NY area. I am not familiar with these trucks. There is a model HD110 s/n 110HD623 listed as Ross Equipment Niagra Falls, NY, so this is likely the earlier one (red and black) of the two shown. I wish that someone could tell me more about the other one! The truck below these appears to be a 1930’s HC model such as an HC140. There is a truck fitting this description (with a similar high roof cab) shown in Ernest Sternberg’s “History of Sterling Trucks” on page 26 that was an HC140 owned by Capparell Stripping and Construction from Hazelton, PA. |
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