A spark flew and a legend was born.
It was 1933 and their Brillion Iron Works was gone. A business they had worked hard to build – only to close it when times got tough during the depression.
Henry Ariens and his three sons, Mando, Leon and Francis, were not deterred by losing the foundry just a few years earlier. They still had plenty of inventive ideas and a simple but sturdy garage in which to turn their plans into reality.
With a $1,500 loan borrowed against Henry’s life insurance policy and another $1,500 raised by selling shares of stock to a family member, the four men got to work …
It was 1933 and their Brillion Iron Works was gone. A business they had worked hard to build – only to close it when times got tough during the depression.
Henry Ariens and his three sons, Mando, Leon and Francis, were not deterred by losing the foundry just a few years earlier. They still had plenty of inventive ideas and a simple but sturdy garage in which to turn their plans into reality.
With a $1,500 loan borrowed against Henry’s life insurance policy and another $1,500 raised by selling shares of stock to a family member, the four men got to work …