Little money but a new Hudson Eight . (UPDATE II: John Dillinger)

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You may shrug your shoulders at the concept of Labor Day, but let's be thankful that so many things have changed for the better, at least in the western world. Check the painful photos of child labor some 90 years back. Dick Trenk sends the above photo showing his father who was a Hudson sales man. (click the photo to see a young Dick Trenk). "...although during the great depression we had little money, at least the family got to ride in new cars all the time. "It shows me on the running board of my father's (Milo Trenk) company owned demonstrator car which I believe to be a 1933 Terraplane 8 two door series KT sedan. My father touted the 8 cylinder engine in the light weight (2500 lbs.) Terraplane and used this car to impress the Chicago police dept. into ordering many of them in place of their usual Henderson or Harley motorcycles. At a acceleration test held at the famous Soldier Field parking lot during a competition drag-race he easily out accelerated several motorcycles and then convinced the city that the cars would serve well in winter when the bikes were in storage. He sold two of these 8 cylinder models to Mr. Marshall Field (famous department store and museum founder in Chicago).
UPDATE II by David Horsley:" Not only were Terraplane and Hudson Eights popular with police forces in the 1930's but also they were the favourite getaway cars of many notorious bandits such as John Dillinger and Baby Face Nelson. Apparently, when the '34 Hudson Eight appeared, Dillinger queued all night outside a Kansas City Hudson showroom to get one of the first ones."
UPDATE I by Kit Foster:"At the beginning of the 1933 model year, Hudson Motor Car Company's Terraplane line consisted of the 106-inch wheelbase six cylinder Series K and the 113-inch wheelbase eight cylinder Series KT. In May, a six cylinder car on the 113-inch wheelbase was introduced, the Series KU. Six cylinder cars had hood louvres, eights had hood doors. The KU, not illustrated in the Standard Catalog, had the blank space ahead of hood louvres, as seen in Dick's pix. The car is a 1933 Terraplane Special Six sedan, Series KU. See page 162 of _The History of Hudson_ by Don Butler. Terraplane was a separate marque in 1933, so this is not a Hudson. Looking again at the side view of the Terraplane, I see it is a two-door car, which in Hudsonland was a 'Coach.' "

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