[Michlib-l] Michigan Innovation

[Murphy, Edwina (MDE)]

All Welcome!


Saturday October 10th at the Library of Michigan, 2:30-3:30

Author Ruth Ann Fruehauf will be talking about her book Singing Wheels and her grandfather's company of truck trailers in Michigan.

To commemorate her grandfather's 1914 invention of the semi-trailer, Ruth Ann Fruehauf wrote a book, "Singing Wheels'" honoring the successes and accomplishments of the Fruehauf family legacy. The Fruehauf Trailer Company was the dominant trailer manufacture for nearly a century and became the 75th largest company in the world when it declared bankruptcy in 1997. It all started in a Detroit shop operated by a hard working German immigrant, August Fruehauf. After inventing the concept of the semi-trailer, the company went onto invent the automatic fifth wheel hitch, the dump trailer, the tanker trailer, refrigerated trailers and the shipping container. The colorful history is captured in a coffee table book with 90 pages of photographs from the family archives. For more information please visit www.singingwheels.com.<http://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.singingwheels.com%2F&h=eAQHjOkTSAQERJXUqAalkZNybk5Dtu28-0Zjpr2qvZ7n6jA&enc=AZPEnwDtA45LN8QL_XiL0_ZNptDkFu_UZ-JERz-EBNcSnXcEyKhMmPf7fonVf42lDYPWCRtrN-NdfHW4vuVj-7F62sXlI9M71yUBmSP5zcfoZScdwRiGZDR7vpHDy5MTsjE24JOOftpWWwauOJMKHZMynHVo-I9ZM1hONcthssukJdgir-TniMRV71wmJf7ghwY_H1ZPti7oP7Pibmzus2BI&s=1>



Edwina A. Murphy
Michigan Collection Librarian
Michigan Center for the Book
Library of Michigan
702 West Kalamazoo St.
Lansing, MI 48909





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