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unusual facts about Mack Trucks


Lower Macungie Township, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania

Lower Macungie Township is home to the primary manufacturing facilities of Mack Trucks.


Allentown Queen City Municipal Airport

Vultee Aircraft and Consolidated Aircraft announced that Consolidated Vultee (later known as Convair) would lease Mack Truck's Plant 5C for production of the Consolidated Vultee TBY-2 Sea Wolf Torpedo Plane for the United States Navy.

Center cap

Center caps that are found on trucks are "baby moon" center caps, that originated on Mack Trucks and are most popular and commonly found on Freightliner Trucks.


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Allentown Queen City Municipal Airport

Plant 5C was returned to Mack Trucks and the remainder of the facility was declared surplus by the War Assets Administration.