Divco

Divco was a brand name of delivery trucks built and marketed in the United States, the name being an acronym for Detroit Industrial Vehicles Company. It became known for multi-stop delivery trucks, particularly the home delivery vehicles used by dairy producers, and it produced trucks of various sizes from 1926 until 1986. The company was founded in 1926 by George Bacon, formerly chief engineer of the Detroit Electric Vehicle Company, with a group of investors. During the Great Depression it was bought by Continental Motors, which supplied most of its engines, then spun off in 1936 and acquired by Twin Coach as Divco-Twin. Its 1937 Model U, with a welded all-steel van body and snub-nosed hood, stayed in production almost unchanged until the end of the line in 1986, and in 1957 Divco merged with the Wayne Works of Richmond, Indiana, to form Divco-Wayne.