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FYI...Tugboat Annie was built by Joe Ebenhoh ..the Ebenhoh Body Shop in Sleepy Eye Minnesota in the 1940s.
He built many custom commercial vehicles for people.
The shop also built similar trucks for breweries in the area.
Miller Motors was a DeSoto and Plymouth Distributor an hour and a half SW of Minneapolis, located in Mankato, MN.
The management was wise enough to have an eye-catching tow truck built that served as a rolling billboard for the firm.
“Tugboat Annie,” built in 1937 on a cab-over-engine International truck chassis and was apparently constructed by a truck body builder.
Miller Motors is still in business today, 88-years later, operating a Continental tire store, oil change facility and parts and accessory store.
The business began in 1927 as a repair garage and later expanded into car sales later during the thirties.
This large-sized photo from the Detroit Public Library was found at Automobilia via Ron Clark.
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