FreightWaves Classics/Fallen Flags: Crown Steel Products pioneered sleeper cabs and other innovations

A White tractor with a sleeper. (Photo: Historic Commercial Vehicle Club of Australia Inc.)

Overview

Between 1928 and 2001 the town of Orrville, Ohio, was the home of Crown Steel Products, which supplied day cabs, sleeper cabs and quad cabs to many of the nation’s truck manufacturers. It also manufactured “enclosed operator cabs for regional manufacturers of farm and construction equipment and also offered utility boxes and other types of truck equipment and accessories.”

Crown Steel Products was founded in 1940 by Julius Fejes (February 14, 1910 – March 24, 2001) to supply pressed...

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