The man who sold me the truck and trailer thought that the trailer was originally made with sideboards for hauling livestock. He also thought that the truck and trailer had been together since new. I did not get titles with them but the newest patent on the trailer is 1934. While learning about Fruehauf company in this time period, I collected some original sales literature, some of which was loaned to Ruth Fruehauf who maintains the Fruehauf website. Unfortunately I never got any of it back and she claims to have no recollection of borrowing it from me. Fruehauf spent a lot of advertising dollars, during this era, with a campaign to convince owners of medium size trucks, that they could pull more than they could carry. The printed material would depict a Chevy, Ford, or Dodge truck towing a trailer. In every case the trailer would always have a lug bolt pattern to match the truck. It is my theory that part of their sales strategy was to put hubs on the trailer with a matching bolt pattern so that tires/wheels could be interchanged between the two. In the case of my trailer, it did not quite work out. In 1936, Chevy introduced the full floating rear hubs on 1-1/2 ton trucks. This required the center hole to be enlarged from 4-1/4" to 4-3/4' to fit over the hub. The wheels on the trailer are the same as '34/'35 Chevy so I could put truck wheels on the trailer but not trailer wheels on the truck. The trailer still does not have a deck. It is 20 feet long and I wanted the boards to be full length so My Brother and I sawed lumber but I have not built the floor. Maybe this Spring. The truck has all of its original driveline. 207 c.i.d. inline 6 cylinder engine, 4 speed transmission, and (thankfully) 5.43 ratio, rear axle. I am running 6.50 X 20 Denman tires all around. Trailer tires are 7.00 X 20 and are the tires I removed from the truck.
