Vintage 1938 Fruehauf Aero-Van Reefer (opens in new tab)

Who better to invent the trailer than a professional blacksmith working in post-buggy Detroit? The story of Fruehauf is a consummate profile of capitalist reinvention: August Fruehauf's substantial farrier and carriage business came to a sudden stop with the advent of the combustion engine - until 1914, when a customer came knocking with a specific...