Chase model D truck Delivery Van

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The origins of Chase Motor Truck Company date back to its early days in farm implement manufacturing. Aurin M. Chase, founder and former vice president of Syracuse Chilled Plow Company, founded the new company on the principle of producing one-ton trucks equipped with three-cylinder engines that ran on two-cycle, air-cooled principles. Businessman Paul Bellinger from Solvay Process Company and Roy Grant from Grant's Hardware joined Aurin in his venture as key supporters. That same year, Aurin Chase successfully negotiated the sale of Syracuse Chilled Plow Company to Deere & Company. Initially, Chase's innovative concept of producing a high-wheeled vehicle powered by gasoline, which could easily transform into either a truck or passenger car, looked promising in early automobile manufacturing days. By 1912, Chase Motor Truck Company boasted that its trucks represented the embodiment of efficiency, advertising them as "the emblem of efficiency." According to company claims, "Chase trucks are not pleasure vehicles but service vehicles." Their popularity among major business establishments stemmed from a detailed evaluation process they underwent regarding motor truck performance, leading to satisfaction with Chase trucks' effectiveness. Chase Motor Truck Company was indeed praised for providing the most efficient light delivery trucks on the market.