1922 Samson Truck

edited by David Barth, 30 January 2009.
Courtesy The Forney Museum of Transportation at 4303 Brighton Blvd., Denver, Colorado.
Photos were taken in February 2009.

This is a 1922 Samson Truck.

This Model E-15 truck could haul one cubic yard, one ton of gravel, or 40 bushels of wheat, about the same as a team of horses.

It could haul five times faster than a horse-drawn truck. It was advertised as being able to pay for itself in less than a year.