Mickey Truck Body

Mickey Truck Bodies, Inc., originally founded as The W.F. Mickey Body Company, has come a long way since founder Will Franklin Mickey opened his first blacksmith shop in the High Point, NC area back in 1904. From its early days as maker of the iron ring for wooden wagon wheels and open wooden bodies for hauling ice, the company has blossomed into a premier manufacturer of state-of-the-art bodies and trailers made entirely of aluminum. Two things have remained constant through the years, however. One is the company's unwavering commitment to quality products and services. The other is ownership – the company is still owned and operated by the Mickey family. It was during the mid to late 1940s that Mickey started making closed steel bodies, a natural evolution for many of the successful blacksmith operations of the era. One of the company's first major customers was National Bohemian, a beer distributor based in Baltimore, MD. Mickey built its first beverage trailer in the early 1970s – a 14 bay unit without a main-beam that was used by a Chicago Coca-Cola bottler to haul product from its main warehouse to a satellite warehouse about 20 miles away. The early Mickey trailers did not use box beams, or I beams, but that changed when the company moved into an all aluminum construction in early '80s.
== See also ==
Departments operating Mickey apparatus
==Source==
*Coachbuilt
Category:American fire apparatus manufacturers