Jimmy's History of Longview, Texas

Originally Published in  The Longview Daily News on January 1, 1947 . We wish to thank everyone who attended our formal opening Saturday, December 21. We deeply appreciate the marvelous turn-out, your good wishes and expressions of satisfaction with the new cars. We sincerely regret that we could not accommodate each of you who wanted to "Drive one home" but we'll do our best for you in "1947" DON ROLAND MOTORS 341 W. TYLER LINCOLN-MERCURY                        Authorized Sales and Service Don Roland Motors - Photo originally published in The Longview Daily News, April 11, 1948 ******************************************************************************************************************* Resources “Don Roland Motors” Advertisement, The Longview Daily News, Wednesday, January 1, 1947, Page 14. Don Roland Motors Photograph, The Longview Sunday News-Journal, April 11, 1948, Page 10. 

Originally Published in The Longview Daily News on January 1, 1947 . The W. P. Hurst Motor Company, founded in 1931 by Walter P. Hurst, has kept pace with the growth of Longview by offering an ever increasing variety of machines and services to its customers in Longview and surrounding territory. This company is the dealership for the well known International and McCormick-Deering line which comprise trucks, farm tractors, farm machinery, dairy and refrigeration equipment. The line of Interantional trucks is complete from the 1/2-ton pick-up to the new West-Coast models of up to 90,000 pounds gross vehicle weight rating.  This new line of extra heavy-duty models was developed for on-and-off highway work in mountainous territory, and for heavy oil field service.  Each truck model of this complete line is available in various wheelbases; a variety of gear ratios and such optional features as tire sizes, two-speed axles, increased cooling capacity, increased braking, power brakes...