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...
GVW Group LLC is an industrial holding company founded in 1993. It invests in, grows and provides strategic expertise for “scalable early stage, high growth and mid-sized businesses.”
The industries it currently has holdings in include manufacturing, distribution, technology, big data, engineering and energy efficiency.
The company bought Autocar and the Xpeditor truck model from Volvo Trucks North America in 2001 and formed Autocar, LLC, a company that began in Pittsburgh in 1897. Autocar’s...
https://www.freightwaves.com/news/freightwaves-classics-autocar-builds-severe-duty-trucks
For eight decades (1900-1980), White Motor Company was a mainstay of American automobile, truck, bus and agricultural tractor manufacturing.
1924 white motor company wrecker. Jim Allen/FreightWaves @ Iowa 80 Trucking Museum
White Sewing Machine Company
The White Sewing Machine Company was started in 1858 by Thomas H. White and others in Templeton, Massachusetts. In 1866, the company was moved to Cleveland, Ohio. The company did...
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