Industry History | Paccar — Logging Cars from a Tideflat Shop at Humphrey
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Industry History | Paccar — Logging Cars from a Tideflat Shop at Humphrey
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People treat Paccar as a Bellevue listing that always sold a Kenworth and a Peterbilt from a glass campus east of Lake Washington.
The first book was steel for loggers, not a truck cab.
On 11 February 1905 William Pigott incorporated Seattle Car Manufacturing Company in Seattle and took over the assets of his Railway Steel and Supply Company.
Four months later the firm opened a small shop at Humphrey on Elliott Bay, on land leased from Seattle Steel, another of Pigott's businesses.
The plant made railway and logging equipment for a timber coast that still moved trees on rails.
By 1908 the shop had enough work to plan a move to a 120-acre site near Renton on Lake Washington.
On 12 August 1908 a fire destroyed the Humphrey plant. The loss pushed the company into receivership, but it survived and finished the Renton works.
In 1911 the name became Seattle Car and Foundry. On 1 July 1917 it merged with Twohy Brothers of Portland, its only West Coast competitor, and took the name Pacific Car and Foundry.
Major railroads had been splitting large orders between the two shops. The merger put those orders under one book.
In 1924 William Pigott sold control to American Car and Foundry. In 1934 his son Paul bought a major interest back with Seattle investors.
The company did not enter heavy trucks until 1945, when it bought Kenworth Motor Truck of Seattle. Peterbilt followed in 1958.
On 25 January 1972 shareholders dropped the foundry name for Paccar, because the book was no longer mostly cars and castings.
The tideflat shop is gone. The mechanism that remains is a family steel firm that bought the truck names instead of inventing them.
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