Fruehauf Corporation
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The Fruehauf Corporation was a traditional trailer manufacturer from Indianapolis .
history
The blacksmith and coach builder August Charles Fruehauf (1868–1930), who originally worked in Detroit, built a trailer for transporting boats in 1914 on behalf of a customer. His client then wanted a further trailer from Fruehauf for transporting logs. After its completion, Fruehauf finally called this second trailer " semi-trailer " and in 1918 expanded the product line. After renaming his company to Fruehauf Trailer Company , he specialized completely in the production of semi-trailers .
In 1963 the company was renamed and modernized. The steady expansion culminated in 1973 with the takeover of the automotive supplier Kelsey-Hayes , which was sold to Varity in 1989 . In 1997 the Fruehauf Corporation went bankrupt and was sold to Wabash National . As a result, production in the USA was completely stopped. The subsidiaries founded abroad remained exempt from liquidation, but some of them were sold in the following years. In 2015, for example , the Polish commercial vehicle manufacturer Wielton took over the French subsidiary Fruehauf SAS .
Nippon Fruehauf
In 1963 the still existing Nippon Fruehauf Company, Ltd. ( 日本 フ ル ハ ー フ 株式会社 Nippon Furuhāfu Kabushiki-gaisha ) founded in Japan . Half of the initial capital came from Nippon Light Metal Company, Ltd. ( 日本 軽 金属 株式会社 Nippon Keikinzoku Kabusihi-gaisha ) and from the automaker Isuzu .
Web links
- Fruehauf Company Web Site (Engl.)
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.coachbuilt.com/bui/f/fruehauf/fruehauf.htm
- ↑ http://www.amtrex.net/semitrailer_definition.htm Semitrailers
- ↑ http://www.coachbuilt.com/bui/f/fruehauf/fruehauf.htm Fruehauf Trailer
- ↑ Fruehauf History - Semitrailer History ( Memento from June 11, 2004 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ 日本 フ ル ハ ー フ / 会 社 沿革. Retrieved March 13, 2017 (Japanese).
