Vehicle Description
George DeMartini began building his own trucks in San Francisco in
1919, because he thought he could build it better than anything
else on the market. DeMartini specialized in trucks for farm use or
refuse collection trucks. Building complete vehicles which were
popular among the Scavenger collectives in San Francisco for
decades. Many of these, with their high sided dump bodies and
stairs leading to the top, worked in the city well into the era of
compaction bodies. Before George DeMartini invented the first
tilting garbage truck, the city of San Francisco used horses and
wagons for hauling garbage. DeMartini built trucks from 1919 to
1934, turning out about 300 trucks per year, this example is one of
7 known to exist today.
