MODEL AIRCRAFT IN MACK
TRUCK MAGAZINE
DALE KERN (Saint Helen, Michigan) found old Mack Truck magazines among items of his father’s from when he worked at Mack Truck in Allentown, Pennsylvania. “He was employed with Mack for 17 years as a draftsman, until 1953, when he moved the family to Detroit and was employed with GMC Truck and Coach,” he stated.
Dale was flipping through several of the magazines and came across the model flying club from 1939 that Mack Truck had sponsored. “During those years and up to the 1980s, many older companies encouraged their employees to form clubs that would promote innovation and constructive hobbies,” he wrote. “I worked for Western Electric, also in Allentown, from 1979 to 2003, and in the 1970s and 1980s, they also had various clubs, including a model airplane club at one time.”
The photos of model airplane enthusiasts came from an October 1939 issue. “I found it quite interesting,” Dale noted, “I made copies and thought they might be of interest to someone.”
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