Lawrence Johnson, American boat trailer inventor and manufacturer, died from natural causes he was , 97

Lawrence Nels Johnson was an American inventor and manufacturer of boat trailers died from natural causes he was , 97.

(July 12, 1913 – May 6, 2011)

Born in Spokane, Washington, Johnson held 14 patents on boat trailer design and founded EZ Loader Boat Trailers, Inc, the largest boat trailer manufacturing company in the world.^[1] He repaired vehicles for the Washington National Guard during World War II. He later became a partner in a Spokane auto body shop. He invented his first boat trailer from spare parts he had from fixing boat motors, and his boat trailer business came into being when people saw his invention on his boat, and asked him to make the same type of boat trailer for them.^[2]
He died in Spokane aged 97 and was survived by two sons, six grandchildren and seven great grand-children.^[2]

 

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