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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.

Edwina A. Murphy

Michigan Collection Librarian

Michigan Center for the Book

Library of Michigan

702 West Kalamazoo St.

Lansing, MI 48909