APRIL 2003 WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO...
| E.B. MANNING’S NAMELESS RIGS Story and Photo by Truck Historian/Author Stan Holtzman
Martin Douglas of West Covina, CA drove this neat 1965 Kenworth cab-over for E.B. Manning & Son Meat Company of Pico Rivera, CA. The E.B. Manning cattle trucks were known for their super-clean appearance and their famous colors of all black with a red/orange stripe running across the cattle body and continuing through the pull-trailer. The aluminum wheels were always painted to match the stripe. Like the rigs from UPS (United Parcel Service), E.B. Manning never believed in displaying the truck maker’s emblem on their trucks, so the “Kenworth” and “KW” logos that normally appear on the tractor’s front were removed. This policy goes back to the late 1940s, when Manning purchased their very first KW, a conventional truck and trailer that sported the exhaust stack coming out of the hood instead of alongside the cab. While Manning Meat Company is still in business, and one of the few still processing cattle, they no longer have their pretty red and black cattle trucks. |
