page_title: Mack Trucks
section_title: Corporation timeline
hierarchical_section_title: Mack Trucks / History / Corporation timeline
caption_attribution_description: English: Mack truck used to carry ore at the Acosta Mine Museum in Real del Monte, Hidalgo State, Mexico
context_page_description: Mack Trucks, Inc., is an American truck manufacturing company and a former manufacturer of buses and trolley buses. Founded in 1900 as the Mack Brothers Company, it manufactured its first truck in 1907 and adopted its present name in 1922. Mack Trucks is a subsidiary of AB Volvo which purchased Mack along with Renault Trucks in 2000. After being founded in Brooklyn, New York, the company's headquarters were in Allentown, Pennsylvania, from 1905 to 2009 when they moved to Greensboro, North Carolina. The entire line of Mack products is still produced in Lower Macungie, Pennsylvania, and Salem, Virginia, with all powertrain produced in the Hagerstown, Maryland plant. They also have additional assembly plants in Pennsylvania, Australia, and Venezuela. There was also a Mack plant in Hayward, California and Oakville, Ontario, Canada.
context_section_description: This is a timeline of Mack Trucks history. Most of the information is taken from the Mack history page at MackTrucks.com, unless otherwise noted.
    
  1890: John M. ("Jack") Mack gets a job at Fallesen & Berry, a carriage and wagon company in Brooklyn, New York.
  1893: John Mack and his brother Augustus F. ("Gus") Mack buy Fallesen & Berry.
  1894: A third Mack brother, William C. Mack joins his brothers in the company's operations. The Macks explore working with steam powered and electric motor cars.
  1900: The Macks open their first bus manufacturing plant. Ordered by a sightseeing company, the first "Mack bus" is delivered.
  1902: The Mack Brothers Company is established in New York.
  1904: Mack Brothers introduces the brand name "Manhattan" on its products.
  1905: Allentown is selected as the home of main manufacturing operations, and headquarters. A fourth Mack brother, Joseph Mack becomes a stockholder. Mack also begins making rail cars and locomotives.
  1910: The "Manhattan" brand trucks are redesignated "Mack" trucks. A fifth Mack brother Charles Mack joins the company.
  1911: Headed by C.P. Coleman, The Saurer Motor Truck Company acquires rights to manufacture and sell heavy trucks under the Saurer brand name at its plant in Plainfield, New Jersey. On September 23, 1911, the Saurer Motor Truck Company merges with the Mack Brothers Motor Car Company of Allentown headed by J. M. Mack, forming the International Motor Truck Company (IMTC). IMTC continues to make and sell trucks using the Saurer name until 1918. In 1911, IMTC is capitalized at $2.6 million total ($1.6m or 61.5% for Saurer and $1.0m for Mack Brothers).
  1912: Brothers John and Joseph Mack leave the company.
  1919: The United States Army conducts a transcontinental project using Mack Trucks to study the need for and feasibility of a new interstate highway system.
  1922: The company name is changed to Mack Trucks, Inc. The bulldog is established as the company's corporate symbol.
  1924: John Mack dies in a car crash in Weatherly, Pennsylvania.
  1932: While recuperating from an operation, Mack's chief engineer Alfred Fellows Masury carves Mack's first bulldog hood ornament. Masury applies for and receives a U.S. patent for his design; the bulldog hood ornament adorns Mack trucks ever since.
  1933: Mack Trucks (as the company is more widely becoming known) are used in building of many ambitious construction projects for the Work Projects Administration including the Hoover Dam.
  1941: Fire Apparatus manufacturing is moved from Allentown, Pennsylvania, to Long Island City, in Queens, New York.
  1951: Fire Apparatus manufacturing is moved from Long Island City back to Allentown
  1956: Mack Trucks, Inc. buys Brockway Motor Company. (Brockway later ceases operations in 1977).
  1966: Mack begins production at its new assembly plant in Oakville, Ontario, Canada. The facility is later closed in 1993.
  1967: Mack Trucks becomes a part of the Signal Oil and Gas Company in a one-for-one exchange for cumulative convertible preferred stock. Later that year Signal changes its name to Signal Companies.
  1970: Mack moves into its new Allentown world headquarters.
  1979: Renault buys a 10% shareholding
  1982: Renault increases its shareholding to 20%, Signal reduces its stake to 10%.
  1983: Mack Trucks conducts an IPO, issuing 15.7 million shares of common stock. Renault increases its holdings to 40% and Signal reduces its stake to 10.3% ownership.
  1987: Renault reorganizes; Renault's Mack shares are transferred to Renault Véhicules Industriels.
  1990: Mack Trucks becomes a wholly owned subsidiary of Renault Véhicules Industriels when the remaining publicly traded shares are acquired at $6.25 per share.
  2001: Mack together with Renault Véhicules Industriels becomes part of Volvo, and the parent company Renault receives a 20% stake in the combined company. (In 2002 Renault Véhicules Industriels changes its name to Renault Trucks).
  2006: Mack has a record-sales year.
  2008: Mack announces relocation of corporate headquarters to Greensboro, North Carolina.
caption: Mack truck used to carry ore at the Acosta Mine Museum in Real del Monte, Hidalgo State, Mexico.
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