SIA Flashback – The 1933 Texaco Doodlebug: Bel Geddes’s Truck of the Future

Though better known for his work in other areas of industrial design, Normal Bel Geddes still dabbled in auto and truck design during the 1930s, advancing his ideas of a streamlined future even more futuristic than many. Perhaps his best known design for ground transportation was the Texaco Doodlebug, a Diamond T-based tanker truck commissioned by the oil company. Six were built, and Michael Lamm had the story on the origins and purposes of the Doodlebug for SIA #149, September 1995.