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THE
AMERICAN REPOSSESSOR FEBRUARY 2007 Volume TWO Issue TWO
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Home COMING IN MARCH
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Yes, the very first tow truck was a
Cadillac. In 1916, John Wiley, a business school operator, dumped his
Model T upside down in a ditch. It took a day and six men to get it out.
One of the men, Ernest Holmes, a student of Wiley's school, thought there
had to be a better way. He mounted three poles to the frame of a 1913
Cadillac, added a pulley and ran a chain through it. He patented his
invention and during WW2 his company provided more than 7,000 tow trucks
to the Allies.
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