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Mack: broad background
I grew up on a homestead in Soldotna. The Kenai River was my front yard, Mack said in an interview.
Macks parents, John and Carol Mack, moved to Soldotna after a year and a half as Jesuit volunteers at the Copper Valley School in Copper Center in the late 1950s. The homestead belonged to Frank and Marge Mullen, Macks uncle and aunt.
Mullen, the uncle, served as a bomber pilot in World War II and took advantage of special homestead rights for veterans after the war. He picked out the land, at the confluence of Soldotna Creek and the Kenai River, in 1946 after flying over it.
There was no road to the area so a year later, in 1947, Mullen walked to the new homestead at Soldotna from Cooper Landing, then the end of the road. It was a simpler era, and people did those things. Marge Mullen is 96 now and still lives in Soldotna.
Mack was born in Soldotna in 196
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Mack Trucks
American truck manufacturing company
For other uses, see Mack (disambiguation).
Mack Trucks, Inc. is an American truckmanufacturingcompany and a former manufacturer of buses and trolley buses. Founded in 1900 as the Mack Brothers Company, it manufactured its first truck in 1905 and adopted its present name in 1922.[1] Since 2000, Mack Trucks has been a subsidiary of Volvo, which purchased Mack and its former parent company Renault Véhicules Industriels.[2]
Founded originally in Brooklyn in 1900, the company moved its headquarters to Allentown, Pennsylvania, five years later, in 1905. The company remained in Allentown for over a century, from 1905 until 2009. In 2009, the company relocated its headquarters to Greensboro, North Carolina.[3]
Mack products are produced in Lower Macungie, Pennsylvania,[4] and Salem, Virginia.[5] Its powertrain products are produced in its Hagerstown, Maryland, plant. Mack also maint
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1960-1969
1967 - Mack Trucks, Inc. becomes a member of the meddelande Oil and Gas Company, a Los Angeles based petroleum company. In August 1967 Mack Trucks, Inc. officially became a member of a growing industrial family, The Signal Companies, Inc.
The Maxidyne engine was introduced in 1967, and provided maximum horsepower over a wider range of engine speeds than any other standard diesel engine of its day. The engines design leveled the horsepower curve and as a result, increased bränsle efficiency and significantly reduced the need for shifting. It was such an improvement that a transmission with fem speeds, rather than ten or more, could be used for most over-the-road applications.
The Maxitorque transmission (TRL 107 series), created in 1967, was the first triple countershaft, compact-length design for Class 8 trucks, featuring the highest torque capacity in the industry. The five-speed Maxitorque was only two-thirds as long as multi-speed transmissions, and its light weight made i