Superior Trailer Works - Superior Bodies - 1935-present - Fontana, California


   

Superior Bodies of Fontana, California built wood, metal and pipe hauling bodies on Ford and other chassis in the 1950s and 1960s. The single seat off-highway type cab was typically placed near the center of the chassis, with the driver surrounded on both sides by a flatbed body designed to carry extra-long cargo which was held in place by vertical stakes. pp295 Ford Trucks since 1905 - Wagner  

1935
Steve Morehead & M.J. Thornton formed a company to build equipment for the transportation industry.

1954
Steve Morehead & M.J. Thornton formed a corporation named Superior Equipment Rental Corporation, to manufacture transportation equipment & carry on related business.

1966
The corporate name was changed to Superior Trailer Works. The company began to concentrate on manufacturing transfer chassis, pup chassis and continued to manufacture low beds and specialty trailers.

1979
Steve Morehead died and Charles Richards, a son in law and company engineer, became President. The company continued to manufacture primarily transfers and pups.

1983
Redwood Reliance Sales Company purchased the assets of Superior Trailer Works. JN Pocock, a stockholder of Redwood Reliance Sales Company, ran the company that molded into Reliance Trailer Company, a company formed to do business in Southern California.

1990
Superior introduced the new lightweight transfer bodies. The company continued to distribute the Reliance Product.

1991
JN Pocock and DK Ling purchased Superior Trailer Works from Redwood Reliance Sales Company.

1996
Superior began to manufacture Super Dumps as well as transfers and pups. continuing to market Reliance.

2001
Superior Trailer Works ceased to distribute the Reliance Products. JN Pocock purchased the remaining shares of Superior Trailer Works.

2003
Superior Trailer Works introduces superlight transfers. The new lightweight design wins the Swedish Steel Prize.

 

   

For more information please read:

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