Piston Koetherizing Service and Mobile Engine Machine Shop

Today’s feature image contains a traveling machinist from Motor Parts and Equipment Inc., with a late-1930s Chevrolet panel truck outfitted with engine reconditioning equipment. This promotional photo was taken on November 3, 1948, at Jim Harmon’s Mobil service station located in Tacoma, Washington. In the 1930s to early-1960s a number of larger automotive machine shops…