Moving The Original Hess Truck

The Original Hess Truck Moves To Headquarters If you enjoy learning about the history of Hess Toy Trucks as much as I do, then you will enjoy this video.  It is by the company that was responsible for moving the original 1933 Chevrolet truck that Leon Hess used to deliver fuel oil to his customers […]

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Vintage Hess Truck Ad From 1964

A Chuck Miller blogpost from 2009 had a great piece of the Hess Toy Truck tradition. It included one of Hess Corporation’s first newspaper ads promoting the toy Hess Transport Truck. I doubt if Leon Hess and his Woodbridge associates had any idea that they were creating an eduring tradition when they decided to manufacture […]

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