Hall Scott Links

Information on Hall-Scott (or company co-founder E.J. Hall) is frustratingly difficult to find, a prime reason why so little Hall and Hall-Scott history has been written until very recently. This lack of a comprehensive company history being widely available has led to some amount of misinformation about Hall-Scott and its products being spread. Below you can find some assistance in doing additional reading on E. J. Hall and Hall-Scott. For example, below are links to the published work by Dias and Bradford. Dias and Bradford (as of 2007) have two articles in print (in Wheels of Time and Automotive History Review) and a book published by SAE Int'l, (available February 2007). Dias has signed a contract with Automobile Quarterly to write an article on E.J. Hall (no release date set), too. And included below is a partial bibliography Dias and Bradford have used in their work. The books and articles reference E.J. Hall and/or Hall-Scott, sometimes with just a passing reference, sometimes in great depth.

To order a copy of Bradford & Dias' book, Hall-Scott, The Untold Story, contact SAE at:

To obtain a copy of the Wheels of Time issue (Jan/Feb 2005) with our article on Hall-Scott truck engines, contact the American Truck Historical Society at:

To obtain a copy of the Automotive History Review issue (Spring 2005) with our brief history of Hall-Scott, contact the Society of Automotive Historians at:

To view issues of Automobile Quarterly, which will publish Dias' article on Hall, contact AQ at:

And for further, less detailed reading on Hall-Scott or E.J. Hall, consult the following:

Books:
Adams, Ron, Big Rigs of the 1950s, MBI Publishing, 2001.
AVCO Corporation, AVCO Corporation, The First Fifty Years, AVCO Corporation,1979.
Angle, Glenn, Airplane Engine Encyclopedia, Otterbein Press, 1921.
Berndt, Thomas, Standard Catalog of U.S. Military Vehicles, 1940-1965, Krause Publications, 1983.
Breihan, John R, Stan Piet and Roger S. Mason, Martin Aircraft 1909-1960, Narkiewicz-Thompson, 1995.
Brill, Debra, History of the J. G. Brill Company, Indiana University Press, 2001.
Borgeson, Griffith, The Golden Age of the American Racing Car, SAE, Int'l., 1998.
Bowers, Peter, Boeing Aircraft Since 1916, Funk & Wagnalls, 1968.

Burness, Tad, American Truck and Bus Spotters Guide, 1920-1985, Motorbooks International, 1985.
Butler, Don, The History of Hudson, Crestline, 1992.
Conde, John A. The Cars That Hudson Built, Arnold-Porter,1980.
Crismon, Fred, U.S. Military Wheeled Vehicles, Motorbooks International, 1994.
Decker, Wilbur F., The Story of the Engine, From Lever to Liberty Motor, Charles Scribner’s, 1920.
Dickey, Philip, The Liberty Engine, 1918-1942, Smithsonian Institution Press, 1968.
Doyle, David and Pat Stansell, Dragon Wagon; A Visual History of the U.S. Army’s Heavy
Tank Transporter 1941-1955, Ampersand Publishing, 2004.
Dunning, Lorry, Ultimate American Farm Tractors Data Book, MBI Publishing, 1999.
Eaton Corporation, The History of the Eaton Corporation, 1911-1985 [Cleveland, 1985].
Editors of Consumer Guide, Cars of the 1930s, Beekman House, 1980.
Georgano, Nick, ed, The Complete Encyclopedia of Commercial Vehicles, Motorbooks International, 1979.
Grayson, Stan, Engines Afloat, From Early Days to D-Day, Vol. 1: The Gasoline Era, Devereux Books, 1999.
------------ Engines Afloat, From Early Days to D-Day, Vol. II: The Gasoline/Diesel Era, Devereux Books, 1999.
Gunston, Bill, World Encyclopedia of Aero Engines, Haynes Publishing, 1998.
Heilig, John, The Cadillac Century, Chartwell Books, 1998.

Johnson, Kenneth, Aerial California: An Account of Early Flight in Northern & Southern California 1849 to

World World War I, Dawson's Book Shop, 1961.
Kaminski, Edward, American Car and Foundry Company, Signature Press, 1999.
Keilty, Edmund, Interurbans Without Wires, Interurbans, 1979.
Kirk, Anthony, Founded by the Bay; The History of Macaulay Foundry, 1896-1996, Macaulay Foundry, 1996.
Lenzke, James T., editor, Standard Catalog of Cadillac, 1903-2000, Krause Publications, 2000.
Madderon, Chuck, Crown Firecoach; 1951 through 1985, Photo Archive, Iconografix, 2001.
Maurer, Maurer, ed., The U. S. Air Service in World War I, vol. II , U. S. Government Printing Office, 1978. National

Cyclopaedia of American Biography, vol. XLIII, University Microfilms, 1967 p. 493-495.
Scott, Edward B., The Saga of Lake Tahoe, vol. 1, Sierra-Tahoe Publishing, 1957.
________ The Saga of Lake Tahoe, vol. II, Sierra-Tahoe Publishing, 1973.
Smith, Herschel, Aircraft Piston Engines: From the Manly Balzer to the Continental Tiara, Sunflower University Press, 1986.
Vanderveen, Bart, Historic Military Vehicles Directory, Battle of Britain Prints, 1989.
Wagner, William, Continental!: Its Motors and Its People, Aero Publishers, 1983.

Cox, Peter, "The IC-41 Buses of Brill," Motor Coach Age, 33, June-July 1981, pp.-8-10.

Herb, Charles, "Hall-Scott Marine Engines Aid Invasion and Defense," Machinery, September 1942, pp.121-134.

Jones, Keith, “If Only in Another Time . . . The Story of the DeVaux-Hall Motors Corporation,” Automotive History Review, Summer 2003, pp. 42-45.

Meier Albert, "ACF Buses," Motor Coach Age, 29, October-November 1977, pp. 4-42.

Miller, Warren, “Hall’s Comet,” Antique Auto, March-April 1975, pp. 22-24.

Theisinger, Earl, "The 1945 ACF," Motor Coach Age, 33, June-July 1981, pp.11-26.

Tikker, Kevin, "Gustav Heine and his Cars," Automotive History Review, Fall 1982, pp. 10-15.