Word: fruehauf
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bawled out the truck driver was Roy A. (for August) Fruehauf, 42, president of the Fruehauf Trailer Co. As head of the company which puts more trailers (i.e., freight vans pulled behind trucks or "truck-tractors") on the road than any other trailer-maker, he has a public-relations job to perform. The trailers' size (biggest is 32 ft. 3⅜ in. long, carries 25,000 Ibs.) plus the bad road manners of many of their drivers have helped stir up anti-trucking sentiment around the U.S., and given Fruehauf one of its biggest headaches. But though motorists fume...
Post Office on Wheels. Fruehauf's company "invented"' the modern trailer and has paced the trailer industry for 36 years. In 1915, Roy August Fruehauf, a Detroit blacksmith and wagonmaker, was persuaded by his eldest son, Harvey (then earning $7 a week), to build a trailer with hard rubber tires and open slat sides for hauling lumber. He didn't think much of it, but Harvey thought it had such possibilities that he plugged it in trade journals with the slogan: "A horse can haul more than he can carry. So can a motor truck." The slogan...
...eight plants around the U.S. and Canada (headquarters: Detroit), Fruehauf now produces scores of stock trailer models, including refrigerator cars, liquid tank carriers, log haulers, livestock vans. But much of its business still comes from customers who need special trailers which
Houses & Horses. So it went. Chunky Roy Fruehauf, the trailer manufacturer, who was worried about $3,000,000 still owed him on a Lustron contract, testified that Rosenbaum had once told him he had RFC Directors Dunham and Willett "in his hip pocket." Rosenbaum bounced back to the stand and denied he had ever said it. Young tried to explain that he is now in the insurance business, claimed he saved one client $40,000 a year on insurance. How? Young couldn't say-he didn't know much about insurance...
Miscellaneous Orders (e.g., transmissions, tank track, trailers, etc.): Firestone Tire & Rubber Co., $23.5 million; Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co., $23.5 million; G.M.'s Allison Division, $26 million; Timken-Detroit Axle Co., $29 million; Fruehauf Trailer Co., $34 million; G.M.'s Chevrolet, $6 million; American Steel Foundries, $15.8 million; Continental Motors Corp., $95 million...