Top RV News: FEB 19, 2024
Grand Design RV Named ‘Best Employer’ by Goshen News
MIDDLEBURY, Ind., – Grand Design RV, a wholly owned subsidiary of Winnebago Industries (NYSE: WGO), has again been recognized as a Best Employer in Manufacturing in The Goshen News 2024 Best of the Best contest, according to a press release from the company. This year, Grand Design additionally captured a Best Employer in Business, Management & Administration designation.
Descendent of Platt Trailers Shares Company’s RV History
EDITOR’S NOTE: If anyone thinks they may have a Platt Trailer or would like more information, contact Harold Eichorn on Facebook—he started a Platt Trail-A-Home Facebook group or by email at [email protected].
Not too many seem to remember Platt Trailers but Harold D. Platt Jr. does, as his grandfather, Oliver W. Platt, started the company — that they claim to be the first RV manufacturer in Elkhart County in 1934.
Harold, who turned 90 last July, shared that his grandfather worked for New York Central railroad and lost his arm in an accident in 1929. He had two sons, Harold D. Platt (Harold Jr’s father and a 1975 RV/MH Hall of Fame inductee) and Eldon. He said he never heard why his grandfather wanted to start an RV business, but he knew the owners of a company in Osceola, Ind., called Doloretta Manufacturing that made cabinets and card tables and. they believe, concession trailers.
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