DeMartini San Francisco, California     George DeMartini began building his own trucks in 1919, because he thought he could build it better than anything else on the market. DeMartini specialized in refuse collection trucks, building complete vehicles which were popular among the Scavenger collectives in San Francisco for several decades. Many of these, with their high-sided dump bodies and stairs leading to the top, worked in the city well into the era of compaction bodies.     DeMartini trucks remained in limited production until 1955, with later models using bodywork made by International Harvester. The company has the distinction of being one of the first refuse vehicle specialist builders in the United States, and perhaps the original California "micro-builder". Open-cab DeMartini refuse truck, circa 1920s 1950 DeMartini, one of two preserved by Recology of San Francisco 1953 International owned by Frank Vizcarra. This may be one of the last DeMartini bodies. 8/1/15 © 2015 All Rights Reserved Logos shown are the trademarks of respective manufacturers Photos from factory brochures/trade advertisements except as noted