Crane Fruehauf Trailers Ltd. was a trailer manufacturer based in Dereham, Norfolk, England. The Company was the the successor to the firm of W Crane wagon works founded in 1865 by William Crane as a blacksmith. The company being also known as Cranes Trailers for a period. Cranes expanded greatly with the booming post was road transport industry and built aluminum bodied boxvans to the designs of the American Fruehauf Corporation from the mid 1960s.