USA 1928 Arthur J. Sherman

1928 in the summer, the owner of a pharmaceutical company in Detroit, Michigan, decided to take his family camping and fishing in northern Michigan. He bought a greenhouse car that was just on the market at that time. Speaking of it, it's really a greenhouse car-there are four wheels under a greenhouse, and you can't put them on until you get to the road camp shed. There was no folding RV at that time. In the instructions and advertisements, we preach how simple this caravan is. When Yasser Ji Schellmann arrived at their fishing place, it was late. He was building a shed and caught up with the heavy rain. According to the instructions, the children hid in the car, and Sherman built his RV for the first time. An hour passed, but he still didn't succeed. All the children at home came out to help their father. They finally succeeded in setting up the tent. But Mr. Sherman's trust in the product and his enthusiasm for this trip were completely dispelled. But his understanding of the benefits of car camping has not diminished at all.

After returning home from that trip, Schellmann began to design and build a caravan that didn't need to be opened until he arrived at the camp. After a winter, he built a fully functional trailer himself, and the next summer, he returned to northern Michigan to experiment again. His first trailer was 9 feet long, 6 feet wide and only 5 feet high in the middle. The car is equipped with a back door, and the floor in the middle corridor can be lowered behind the axle to increase the height inside the car. The roof of the carriage is made of canvas. His RV was fully functional and gave others a refreshing feeling at that time. Before that, Sherman didn't even consider changing careers again. But the current situation and the sensitivity of businessmen and capitalists immediately made him feel that the RV he built would have great business opportunities. Sherman is neither an engineer nor a manufacturer. He is just an ordinary pharmacist and bacteriologist, but he can be self-sufficient.

After returning from this trip full of infinite reverie, Sherman decided to further study his two cars. He hired several local carpenters to start making small models, which were exhibited at the Detroit Auto Show in the autumn of 1929. His small design immediately caused a great sensation in the whole exhibition. At that time, he didn't have any mass production capacity himself. At the exhibition, he received an order for 1 17 at once, and all the models he brought to the exhibition were sold out. He immediately hired 20 workers to work with him to build what his son derided as a "covered caravan". The car is 6 feet wide, 9 feet long and 5 feet wide, and it opens at the back. In order to increase the height of the interior of the carriage, Sherman designed the floor at the bottom of the carriage into a structure that can be landed.

Sherman's RV factory in Detroit developed rapidly. A few years later, the whole factory moved to a much larger factory near Clemens Mountain.

By 1935, the production capacity of his factory has reached the capacity of producing 35 sets a day, and there are more models and styles. By 36 years, the output has exceeded 50 sets per day. In addition to producing trailers, this factory also produces RV boards, RV carriages and RV interior furniture. By the end of 1936, companies in Schellmann had the fastest growth rate among the emerging industries in China. At that time, all trailers 1/6 running on the roads in the United States were made by Sherman.

Sherman created the first production line capable of manufacturing covered trailers. Moreover, he also took the lead in inventing the glazing protection technology of the RV board. The update of this technology can be said to be a revolution in the production of the entire RV industry. It changes the traditional process of using cement protective layer, sandwich plate and leather protective layer as appearance in the production of traditional RV.

1936, Sherman took the lead in providing various installment payment methods for his vendors and guests. This makes it easier for RV buyers to pay the pressure brought by RV purchase. This plan makes Schellmann have a very close relationship with suppliers and customers. This provided a great advantage for his products to occupy a huge market share later.

Unfortunately, the rapid expansion of Sherman's RV also contributed to his failure. 1938, he signed a contract with a large automobile axle factory to increase their RV production to 100 vehicles per day. Later, due to the economic depression, other RV manufacturers more than doubled the length of RVs and reduced Sherman's RV orders to 65,438+00 to 65,438+05 vehicles per day. In order to thoroughly digest the backlog of inventory and the impact of World War II in the United States, the reorganization of domestic industries completely ended Sherman's dominance in RV production. 194 1 year, the company completely ended the transition from civilian production to munitions production. But after the war, the company's RV production did not resume.

1974, people officially recognized Arthur Sheekman's great contribution to the early RV industry and recorded his name in the RV Museum.

Today's RV manufacturers recognize Arthur Sheekman as a pioneer in Detroit's automobile mass production manufacturing industry. And took the lead in proposing to buy a car by stages.