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    Remember the Rehberger?

    Aug 10, 2020 5 minutes
    WITH BOB TOMAINE

    Arthur Rehberger & Son has one important item in common with other small truck-builders of its time — it’s nearly forgotten.

    “They made a total, I think, of 360 school buses,” said Tim Hoover, whose 1924 Rehberger Model B is shown here, “and there were 50 (trucks) slated to be made, if they were made (at all). Nobody has any record to know whether there were 50 made or not. But this is 104, so it would be No. 4.”

    Even if every truck that was planned was actually built, 410 vehicles spread over a 15-year run goes far toward explaining why Rehberger isn’t a household name.

    The company’s plant in Newark, N.J., began production of 1-1/2- to 7-ton trucks in about 1923 and buses in 1925,

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