The American Automobile Industry in World War Two
An American Auto Industry Heritage Tribute by David D Jackson

Overview      Lansing Michigan in World War Two   The U.S. Auto Industry at the Normandy Invasion, June 6, 1944    The U.S. Auto Industry and the B-29 Bomber   U.S. Auto Industry Army-Navy "E" Award Winners   The Complete listing of All Army-Navy "E" Award Winners   Sherman Tanks of the American Auto Industry   Tank Destroyers of the American Auto Industry    M26 Pershing Tanks of the American Auto Industry   M36 Tank Destroyers of the American Auto Industry   Serial Numbers for WWII Tanks built by the American Auto Industry   Surviving LCVP Landing Craft    WWII Landing Craft Hull Numbers   Airborne Extra-Light Jeep Photos  The American Auto Industry vs. the German V-1 in WWII   American Auto Industry-Built Anti-Aircraft Guns in WWII   VT Proximity Manufacturers of WWII   World War One Era Motor Vehicles   National Museum of Military Vehicles  
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 Automobile and Body Manufacturers:  American Bantam Car Company   Briggs Manufacturing Company   Checker Car Company   Chrysler Corporation   Crosley Corporation   Ford Motor Car Company   General Motors Corporation   Graham-Paige Motors Corporation   Hudson
Motor Car Company   Murray Corporation of America   Nash-Kelvinator   Packard Motor Car Company      Studebaker    Willys-Overland Motors

General Motors Divisions:  AC Spark Plug   Aeroproducts   Allison   Brown-Lipe-Chapin   Buick   Cadillac   Chevrolet   Cleveland Diesel   Delco Appliance   Delco Products   Delco Radio   Delco-Remy   Detroit Diesel   Detroit Transmission   Electro-Motive   Fisher Body   Frigidaire   GM Proving Grounds   GM of Canada   GMC   GMI   Guide Lamp   Harrison Radiator   Hyatt Bearings   Inland   Moraine Products   New Departure   Oldsmobile   Packard Electric   Pontiac   Saginaw Malleable Iron   Saginaw Steering Gear   Southern California Division   Rochester Products   Ternstedt Manufacturing Division   United Motors Service   Vauxhall Motors

 Indiana Companies:  Bailey Products Corporation   Chrysler Kokomo Plant   Continental Steel Corporation  Converto Manufacturing    Cummins Engine Company   Diamond Chain and Manufacturing Company   Delta Electric Company   Durham Manufacturing Company   Farnsworth Television and Radio Corporation   General Electric Kokomo Plant   Haynes Stellite Company   Hercules Body Company   Horton Manufacturing Company   Howe Fire Apparatus   International Machine Tool Company   J.D. Adams Company   Kokomo Spring Company   Magnavox  
Muncie Gear Works   Pierce Governor Company   Portland Forge and Foundry   Reliance Manufacturing Company-Kokomo Plant   Reliance Manufacturing Company-Washington Plant   Republic Aviation Corporation - Indiana Division   Ross Gear and Tool Company   S.F. Bowser & Co.   Sherrill Research Corporation   Tokheim Oil Tank and Pump Company   Warner Gear   Wayne Pump Company   Wayne Works

Commercial Truck and Fire Apparatus Manufacturers:  American LaFrance   Autocar  
Biederman Motors Corporation   Brockway Motor Company   Detroit General   Diamond T   Duplex Truck Company   Federal Motor Truck   Four Wheel Drive Auto Company(FWD)   International Harvester   John Bean   Mack Truck   Marmon-Herrington Company   Michigan Power Shovel Company   Oshkosh Motor Truck Corporation   Pacific Car and Foundry   "Quick-Way" Truck Shovel Company  Reo Motor Car Company  Seagrave Fire Apparatus   Sterling Motor Truck Company    Ward LaFrance Truck Corporation   White Motor Company

Aviation Companies:  Abrams Instrument Corporation    Frankfort Sailplane Company   Hughes Aircraft Company   Kellett Aviation Corporation   Laister-Kauffman Aircraft Corporation   Naval Aircraft Factory   P-V Engineering Forum, Inc.    Rudolf Wurlitzer Company-DeKalb Division  Schweizer Aircraft Corporation   Sikorsky Division of United Aircraft Corporation   St. Louis Aircraft Corporation   Timm Aircraft Corporation

Other World War Two Manufacturers: 
Air King Products   Allis-Chalmers   American Car and Foundry   American Locomotive   American Stove Company   Annapolis Yacht Yard  
Andover Motors Company   B.F. Goodrich   Baker War Industries   Baldwin Locomotive Works   Blood Brothers Machine Company   Boyertown Auto Body Works   Briggs & Stratton   Burke Electric Company   Caterpillar   Cheney Bigelow Wire Works   Centrifugal Fusing   Chris-Craft   Clark Equipment Company   Cleaver-Brooks Company   Cleveland Tractor Company   Continental Motors   Cushman Motor Works   Crocker-Wheeler   Dail Steel Products   Detroit Wax Paper Company   Detrola   Engineering & Research Corporation   Farrand Optical Company   Federal Telephone and Radio Corp.   Firestone Tire and Rubber Company   Fruehauf Trailer Company   Fuller Manufacturing   Galvin Manufacturing   Gemmer Manufacturing Company   General Railway Signal Company   Gerstenslager Company   Gibson Guitar   Gibson Refrigerator Company   Goodyear   Hall-Scott   Hanson Clutch and Machinery Company   Harley-Davidson   Harris-Seybold-Potter   Herreshoff Manufacturing Company   Higgins Industries    Highway Traile    Hill Diesel Company   Holland Hitch Company   Homelite Company   Horace E. Dodge Boat and Plane Corporation   Huffman Manufacturing   Indian Motorcycle   Ingersoll Steel and Disk   Iron Fireman Manufacturing Company   John Deere   Johnson Automatics Manufacturing Company   Kimberly-Clark   Kohler Company   Kold-Hold Company   Landers, Frary & Clark  Lima Locomotive Works   Lundberg Screw Products   MacKenzie Muffler Company   Massey-Harris   Matthews Company   McCord Radiator & Mfg. Company   Metal Mouldings Corporation   Miller Printing Machinery Company   Morse Instrument Company   Motor Products Corporation   Motor Wheel Corporation   National Cash Resgister Company   Novo Engine Company   O'Keefe & Merritt Company   Olofsson Tool and Die Company   Oneida Ltd   Otis Elevator   Owens Yacht   Pressed Steel Car Company   Pressed Steel Tank Company   Queen City Manufacturing Company   R.G. LeTourneau   Richardson Boat Company   R.L. Drake Company   St. Clair Rubber Company   Samson United Corporation   Shakespeare Company   Sight Feed Generator Company   Simplex Manufacturing Company   Steel Products Engineering Company   St. Louis Car Company   Twin Disc Company   Victor Adding Machine Company   Vilter Manufacturing Company   Wells-Gardner   W.L. Maxson Corporation   W.W. Boes Company   Westfield Manufacturing Company   York-Hoover Body Company   York-Shipley, Inc.   Youngstown Steel Door Company  
   

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Replica LCVPs

This page added 9-11-2020.

An American Auto Industry in World War Two Special Edition
The guideline that I am using to define a replica is that the LCVP was built after World War Two, and is intended for display use only. 

Owner:  The National WWII Museum
Location:  New Orleans, LA
Date of Photos:  March 2018


This replica was built by volunteers at the National World War Two Museum in New Orleans, LA.  It is now on display at the entrance to the museum.  What is interesting about this replica is that it is not like any of the known LCVPs I have personally visited or seen in contemporary or most historical photos.  However, there appears to be one historical photo that shows an LCVP similar to this one.  See below for more details.  Author's photo.


Note that towards the bow area of the boat, it is not flat and there is a sharp angle where it changes.  All of the LCVPs I have seen to date in several different museums all have flat sides.  All but one World War Two photos of LCVPs show flat sides.  The museum is reported to have used original Higgins engineering drawings to make the replica.  These apparently were not the same drawings used during World War Two for the majority of the LCVPs built during World War Two.  Without the flat sides, it would be difficult to mount the quarter-inch thick armor plates to the side of this boat.  Author's photo.


USPA-89-11 looks like it has the kink in the side.  It also appears to have a rounded transom, which would indicate this LCVP was built by Higgins Industries.  Maybe there was a short-lived engineering change that had the non-flat side.  This is a mystery.


Also different is the kink in the interior bulkhead about one-third the way up.  Other World War Two LCVPs don't have this.  Author's photo.


A partial hull number can be seen behind the fire extinguisher.  Author's photo.


Owner:  Andrew Jackson Higgins National Memorial
Location:  Columbus, NE
Date of Photos:  Unknown
Comments: 
This is a steel replica with a kinked hull similar to the wooden replica at the National WWII Museum.


Owner:  Utah Beach Memorial Museum
Location:  Sainte-Marie-du-Mont, Normandy, France
Date of Photos:  Various
Comments: 
This is an identical or very similar steel replica to the one in Columbus, NE.  It was built by Duo-Lift of Columbus, NE and was dedicated at the Utah Beach Memorial Museum in June 2015.


This shows the steel replica under construction at Duo-Lift.


 Behlen Manufacturing of Columbus, NE packed the replica for shipment. 

Note that this replica has the unusual bent or kinked side of the boat, just like the wooden replica in New Orleans and steel replica in Columbus, NE.  The builder apparently used the same engineering drawings that were used for the New Orleans replica.


The boat is now an outside display at Utah Beach in Normandy. 


Owner:  Royal Museum of the Armed Forces and Military History
Location:  Brussels, Belgium
Comments:
 There is a report of a replica LCVP at this museum and a partial photo of the interior of an LCVP.  A search of key words pertaining to the LCVP on the museum's website yielded no results.


Owner:  Camp Gordon Johnston Museum
Location:  Carrabelle Beach, FL
Date of Photos:  Unknown
Comments: 
This is a half-size replica of the LCVP.  I was unaware of what looks like a cool military museum on the Florida panhandle.  I look forward to visiting the museum and its mini-LCVP on a future trip.  I found it interesting that the several rotating photos on the top of the museum's website actually show LCVs rather than LCVPs, making training landings at Camp Gordon Johnston.  To the un-initiated, this is a common error.


Photo courtesy of Jody High and RoadsideAmerica.com.

 

 

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