Editing White Motor Company (section)

===Truck Manufacturing===
[[File: White's first van was manufactured in 1900 and delivered to a customer in 1901.jpg |thumb| White's first van<ref>{{cite web|url= https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015021264075&seq=12 |title= White van|date=1925-11-19|publisher= A quarter century of White transportation, 1900-1925 (1925) |access-date=2025-03-02}}</ref> was manufactured in 1900 and delivered to a customer in 1901.]]

[[File:1909 White Truck.jpg|thumb|1909 White Truck at Crawford Auto-Aviation Museum]]
[[File:1922White15Truck.jpg|thumb|1922 White Model 15 truck on display at the [[Iowa 80]] Trucking Museum, Walcott, Iowa.]]
[[File:Antiguo camión marca White, en Iquique, Chile.jpg|thumb|White truck in [[Iquique]], Chile]]
[[File:20070917 Old CFD Squad 10 truck2.JPG|right|thumb|White truck in the [[Chicago Fire Department]] from 1930 to 1941]]
[[File:1944WhiteVA114Truck.jpg|thumb|1944 White Model VA-114 truck on display at the [[Iowa 80]] Trucking Museum, Walcott, Iowa.]]

White Motor Company ended car production after [[World War I]] to focus exclusively on trucks. The company soon sold 10 percent of all trucks made in the US. Although White produced all sizes of trucks from light delivery to [[semi truck|semi]], the decision was made after [[WWII]] to produce only large trucks. White acquired several truck manufacturing companies during this time: [[Sterling Trucks|Sterling]] (in 1951), [[Autocar Company|Autocar]] (in 1953),<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.autocartruck.com/history/#1950s|title=Purpose-built trucks engineered by the leading OEM dedicated to severe-duty trucks|website=Autocar Truck|access-date=9 May 2018|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180508223653/https://www.autocartruck.com/history/#1950s|archive-date=8 May 2018}}</ref>
[[REO Motor Car Company|REO]] (in 1957) and [[Diamond T]] (in 1958).<ref>White Acquires Reo Company ''[[Truck & Bus Transportation]]'' August 1957 page 85</ref><ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20200422205057/https://roadtransporthall.com/yesterdays-workhorses/diamond-t Diamond T] [[National Road Transport Hall of Fame]]</ref> White also agreed to sell [[Consolidated Freightways]], [[Freightliner Trucks]] through its own dealers.<ref name="wrhs"/> White produced trucks under the Autocar nameplate following its acquisition. Diamond T and [[REO Motor Car Company]] became the [[Diamond REO]] division, which was discontinued in 1995.

A White Semi performed a role in the 1949 [[James Cagney]] film ''[[White Heat]]''. This era was probably the peak of White Motor market penetration, with the substantial gasoline engined tractors moving a large part of the tractor trailer fleet.

White designed and (with other companies) produced the [[M3 Scout Car]], the standard [[United States Army]] reconnaissance vehicle at the start of World War II. White also built the later [[M2 Half Track Car|M2]], [[M3 Half-track|M3]], [[M13 Multiple Gun Motor Carriage|M13]] and [[M16 Multiple Gun Motor Carriage|M16]] [[half-track]]s.

In 1967, White started the [[Western Star Trucks|Western Star]] division to sell trucks on the west coast.