Converto Mfg. Co.
Cambridge City, Indiana


    The Convertainer system is a lugger truck with various sizes of detachable containers. In 1961, the product line was joined by a front loader through an arrangement with the S. Vincen Bowles Company of California. The Converto-Bowles line soon added the Load-n-Pack drop-frame side loader, but the Bowles products were discontinued by the end of the decade. The Convertainer and Leaveatainer roll-off remain in production at Cambridge City.


1960s Convertainer Lugger



1961 Converto Packer (Bowles partial-packer)



Converto-Bowles full-pack front loader, circa 1963



1964 Converto-Bowles Load-n-Pack



1980 full line ad





7/26/15
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