…In 1958 the two brothers Bernt Larsson and Per-Owe Larsson where running a workshop to repair cars and trucks in the small city called Larv in Västra Götaland.

The brothers had some experience from “trailer business” cause up to now they had rebuilt Lorry-trucks to be agriculture trailers to farmers nearby.

In year 1958 a company owner from Vedum, close to Larv Sigge Adolfsson asked the brother if they could make a light trailer he could pull with his car so he could visit and show the farmers the  products he was selling. The brothers sad yes and very soon the first unbraked light trailer where rolling out from the workshop in the small city of Larv….

The needs for light trailers showed to be big so the business where growing out from the small workshop and moved to a bigger plant 6 km from Larv, Valeberg, close to Ryd. The brand of VALERYDSLÄP was introduced.

The business moved to mass production and the range of trailers increased to cover transport of horses and cars etc. The first V frame horse trailer was produced in 1967. In the 60 70 and 80 the trailers business where growing all over Sweden. The first generation Valerydsläp,Trailers reach totally 10000 thousands trailers up to 1991, almost all of them are still in traffic!

Magnus Larsson, todays owner of VALERYD GROUP and son of Per-Ove Larsson (had his familyhome 200 m from production plant) remember his childhood from the trailer production.

“I have memories from the production, there where welding, moanting and painting, mostly green trailers, the trailers had strong welded steel frames wooden sides and floors. I started early to join and work in the production, when I was ten years old my onkel gave me 1 krona for every tire I moanted on the rim and fill it with air, never less the 3.5 k I remember. With manual tools to mount the tire I manage to reach 30 complete wheels in an hour, I made 30 kronor! From this time I understood clearly that as harder I worked as more I could get”

The aftermarket story…

Magnus Larsson realized that the spare part business for light trailers needed to be developed to the big numbers of trailers in the market.

Valeryd started to develop system and concept and components and combine this under the flag of Valeryd.