Highway Trailer Company
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Beginning in 1909 the factory was the site of a wagon works, but in 1917 it made a transition to the automobile industry by shifting to the manufacture of open two-wheel trailers designed for hauling animals to market. During the 1920s the company began manufacturing truck-trailers. Their products were used nationwide and the Edgerton factory was the world's largest trailer manufacturing company.
