Ruan Trucking Company Drivers, Employees, and Trucks at Wood River Company Terminal in the 1950s

industry, oil, petroleum, refineries, refining, Wood River

“Ruan Trucking Company Drivers, Employees, and Trucks at Wood River Company Terminal in the 1950s,” Madison Historical, accessed April 25, 2024, https://madison-historical.siue.edu/archive/items/show/581.

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This photograph shows Ruan Trucking Company drivers, terminal employees, and tanker trucks at the company terminal in Wood River in the 1950s. The company delivered refined petroleum products from all of the area refineries with tanker trucks. There are 39 male drivers and managers and one female employee, the office secretary, in front of company trucks at the terminal. One of the drivers is Carl McKenzie, who possessed the photograph.

• industry
• Wood River
• refineries

• Carl McKenzie

1950 - 1960

• Wood River

English

• Photograph

• Black and white photographic print
• jpg

8.5 x 10 (inches)

• Wood River, Illinois
• 1950s

• McKenzie-Carl-P-0001