Phoenix
The “Phoenix” name/brand has not yet been confirmed. Below, there is an image of a possible logo used by the manufacturer discovered on the side of a trailer. Best estimates are that it was built in the 1940s or ’50s. The trailer body is made up of 5 pieces of aluminum (of aircraft grade). Two sides, a top, a rear, and the door. The bottom of the body is steel plate, around 1/4 inch thick. All of these pieces are riveted together in what appears to be aircraft quality work. This trailer is very well built. The body sits on a steel tubing frame and a wheel assembly not like any other trailer we’ve seen. When not in use, there is a fold down steel leg in the front and another in the rear to keep the pressure off the tire. The interior is coated with a yellow/green coating with red letters that say “Alcoa”. Underneath the exterior paint is a brown coating, that I’m guessing is an anti-corrosion coating that is over the top of the Alcoa yellow. Paint remover works great on the exterior paint, but has no effect what so ever on the brown or on the Alcoa yellow. We’ve found that the only way to remove the under coat is with acetone a scouring pad and elbow grease. The sides panels of the trailer were pressed into shape, like that used in the automotive or possibly the aviation industry. In late 2017 a fiberglass version of this trailer was discovered. While the body lines are mildly different, the overall body shape, tube frame, wheel assembly, legs, mounts and everything else appear to be same as that of other Phoenix trailers. Our best guess, the fiberglass is likely to be an early production of the trailer.