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Spartan purchase Quality and Luverne which became Luverne and Shirley then Crimson and ERV.

It will be interesting to watch. I was told 30 years ago that there will be no more small apparatus manufacturers in the next 10 years and then there was ALF. Yes it was poor management but away went Becker, RD Murray and 3-D. Then there was PenFab from years ago that took Hahn head on and decided to just do a chassis and cut down on overhead with the engineering etc. they stayed around for 35 years. Then Howe and Oren became Grumman and they are gone. The trick isn't getting bigger to grow more profit it really comes down to good communications between the truck committee and the salesman. Then the salesman has to have a consistent contact at the plant to transfer the committees thoughts to engineering get it on paper and an engineered drawing. Then do the process all over with the committee to see if it is laid out they way they want it and then back to engineering. So it sometimes comes down to the personal within the organization to make things grow which will lead to the quality of the product. They are both good products so you just have to wish them well and keep your fingers crossed.