a really early Coca Cola delivery truck!

https://forums.aaca.org/topic/341211-period-images-to-relieve-some-of-the-stress/page/55/

Coca-Cola Beverages Sri Lanka launched the first electric three-wheeler, or e-tuk, for plastic waste management in the country at the Central Environmental Authority.

per AZo CleanTech, electrifying most of India's millions of new tuk-tuks by 2030 could reduce carbon dioxide pollution by 850 million tons.

Likely this is just a marketing and publicity gimmic to gain back some ground after the recent greenwashing debacle when they quietly backtracked from the pledge that 25% of its bottles would be returnable or refillable by 2030

https://www.thecooldown.com/green-business/coca-cola-plastic-waste-management-eta-sri-lanka/

in 1967, a couple guys got a couple vending machine doors, and 55 years later the Coca Cola hot rod is selling for 1/3rd a million dollars if anyone with that much moolah needs this museum piece that much.

Glen Yeary and Steve Tansy made this custom creation, and Yeary is selling it.  

 Yeary and Tansy were provided the two real Coca-Cola vending machine doors, used a bottle crate for the kick board, a pair of bottles for the tail lights, and a lot of polish on the engine. Strange that they didn't use a cooler for the gas tank trunk. The fountain spigot for the radiator ornament is a nice touch though

https://www.racingjunk.com/1960-1979/184453573/1967-chevrolet-coupe-coca-cola-vending-machine-street-rod.html

cool and Christmasy

 

it's nearly time to buy Xmas cards, send out the presents, and avoid the post office madness that is the Christmas season

 

I can't tell if this was originally a real Coca Cola van, or has been expertly patina'd to look the part

 

coming to auction in October, an original Coca-Cola delivery truck, at Matthews Auctions-Polk Auctions

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10227286273480525&set=a.4528715853880

looking good on the job, wasn't unusual... and neither was smoking all day long

nice shoes, nice slacks, and an ironed shirt? I haven't had to dress that nice on any job since I got out of the Navy. It's impressive. 

https://www.overdrive.fi/forum/threads/vanhoja-valokuvia-ameriikan-raitilta.267070/page-1364#post-3592411 

free publicity for Coca Cola in order to get noticed at races

 

https://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/threads/vintage-shots-from-days-gone-by-part-2.1154030/page-1303#post-14146008

Ford Model AA 1-1/2-ton panel truck in downtown Denver, Colorado. This truck was operated by the Denver Coca-Cola Bottling Company.

https://www.vintag.es/2014/12/vintage-ford-coca-cola-delivery-trucks.html

Santa is a trucker... I bet you didn't know that

Tampa Coca-Cola Bottling Company truck. 1920

https://www.flickr.com/photos/floridamemory/25891702315/

a day in the life of the Coca Cola delivery man

I don't think I've posted a Ford soft drink delivery trucks like this before

https://en.wheelsage.org/ford/d-series/ford_d500/beverage_truck/pictures/mco0gt/

https://www.favcars.com/ford-d500-6x4-1965-76-photos-219940.htm

In 1949 artist Jack Davis was commissioned to illustrate a training manual for Coca Cola

It was a training manual for Coca Cola route drivers, and was such a good paying gig that Davis was able to afford to move to New York City, look for a job, and buy a new car

Jack Davis: Drawing American Pop Culture By Jack Davis
https://library.duke.edu/rubenstein/findingaids/cocacolastarsalesmankit/
https://www.wgauradio.com/news/local/famed-bulldog-artist-davis-dies/hR6RNzNfY0DexaG1RCZRoM/?fbclid=IwAR1oyRt9F6W1wHcSbyJEyqmX3aiTP85yM-rEOSmCcFnJ3PaeZXJupgeC_gs

1959 Roseburg, Oregon, 1 am, a building fire ignited a truck parked for the night, it was carrying 2 tons of dynamite and 4-1/2 tons of ammonium nitrate. The blast leveled 8 city blocks, and the crater was 20 feet deep and 50 feet wide

Three hundred businesses within a thirty block radius were damaged by the blast. Of those, seventy-two were declared structurally unsafe resulting in major repairs and renovation. Twelve buildings beyond the eight block perimeter were condemned.

The explosion eventually became commonly know as "The Blast."

Pat Sullivan, a bystander very near the Blast site that night related the following story:

"I was about twenty feet from the intersection on Pine and Oak and I could see Don in his police uniform outlined against the truck. Firemen were standing down by the fire truck. A real good blaze was going at that time.

 As I was running down, I started to see the sides of the truck starting to bulge and I hit the dirt. Thank God for Korea. And that was the last time I saw Don ... I got hit in the chest with a piece of metal. I started to get up and the suction of the Blast knocked me down again. At that time there were no lights whatsoever. Everything was completely dark except for the electrical cords that were bouncing around on the streets that had been blown down from the deal..."

above, melted coke bottles from the destroyed Coca Cola delivery truck

Civil-defense authorities from "throughout the country" took special interest in Roseburg's efforts following the explosion, noting the small-scale similarity to a nuclear attack. In addition, like many small American cities at the time, Roseburg had had no disaster-response plan. The Blast caused Roseburg and other communities to prepare such plans.

http://www.cityofroseburg.org/files/9413/1440/0612/Blast_Crater_and_Devastated_Area_August_1959.pdf
http://www.cityofroseburg.org/visitors/1959-blast/
http://www.stationwagonforums.com/forums/threads/vintage-gas-station-pictures.22844/page-50#post-449106
https://oregonencyclopedia.org/articles/roseburg_blast/#.XOMIcFVKiUk
https://www.fireengineering.com/content/dam/fe/online-articles/documents/2017/FE1959RosebgOr.pdf
https://www.librarything.com/topic/304322#6817898

loading up for the days deliveries

https://www.flickr.com/photos/117891934@N07/41618368885/

Sharp looking delivery truck, empty returns on the top shelf, loaded bottles below.. . proper load out!

https://exploreuk.uky.edu/catalog/xt702v2c8t1s_806_1?f%5Bsource_s%5D%5B%5D=Lafayette+Studios+photographs%3A+1930s+decade&offset=900&per_page=20

Thanks Dennis! I didn't know there was a restored Coca Cola delivery truck in the Iowa 80 Truck Museum

https://iowa80truckingmuseum.com/

art deco Coca Cola delivery truck

http://forums.aaca.org/topic/207364-vintage-delivery-trucks-on-main-street-usa-a-pictorial/?do=findComment&comment=1095360