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1932
Victor Schreckengost designs a cab over engine truck. Trucks can carry more cargo despite length limitations and the engine is more easily accessible for servicing.
Viktor Schreckengost
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Viktor Schreckengost (June 26, 1906 – January 26, 2008) was a noted American industrial designer, sculptor, and artist.
His work was wide ranging. Schreckengost is widely noted as having designed the Jazz Bowl, for Eleanor Roosevelt during his association with Cowan Pottery. He created (at the time) the largest freestanding ceramic sculpture in the world, Early Settler at Lakewood High School in Lakewood, Ohio. He designed bicycles manufactured by Murray bicycles for Murray and Sears, Roebuck and Company. With engineer Ray Spiller, he designed the first truck with a cab-over-engine configuration, a design in use to this day. And he created simple, modern dinnerware designs that became popular throughout the country.
Schreckengost's peers included designers Raymond Loewy, Norman Bel Geddes, Eva Zeisel, and Russel Wright. |