Reply To: Number of Fleet Arrow Wagons Produced

[Brooks Brierley]

I am not sure if you have seen the blog discussion several years ago by the American Truck Historical Association (ATHS) about Fleet Arrows mentioning 500 units, without any source citations. Your discussion about them appears to be the only update on the subject.

The Pierce-Arrow Collection at the University of Michigan’s Hatcher Library (most of what is left of the original factory records) has a giant-size newspaper scrapbook for one-half of 1928 which should have something about customers and orders; separately, there are the original factory photos of Fleet Arrow trucks. There may be other information there, sitting in a box.

A couple of years ago the Florida Region took one of the UofM Fleet Arrow photos (with the stake truck configuration) and made a Zazzle postage stamp from it. We were about to issue more this year when the Post Office suddenly lowered postal rates. Not being allowed to make good-until-used rate stamps, the Region is eagerly waiting to learn the 2017 rates.

Brooks