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Clayton Homes was founded in 1956 by Jim Clayton. [9] [10] The business began by refurbishing and reselling used mobile homes.[11] [12] In 1966, Jim Clayton opened a Clayton Homes store location in Knoxville, Tennessee, on Clinton Highway. [13]
Manufactured housing (commonly known as mobile homes in the United States) is a type of prefabricated housing that is largely assembled in factories and then transported to sites of use. The definition of the term in the United States is regulated by federal law (Code of Federal Regulations, 24 CFR 3280): "Manufactured homes are built as ...
Jim Clayton (businessman) James L. Clayton Sr. (born March 2, 1934) is an American businessman, investor, and philanthropist. He founded Clayton Homes in 1966 and built it into the United States' largest producer and seller of manufactured housing, a formerly publicly traded company that was sold to Berkshire Hathaway in 2003 for $1.7 billion.
A mobile home (also known as a house trailer, park home, trailer, or trailer home) is a prefabricated structure, built in a factory on a permanently attached chassis before being transported to site (either by being towed or on a trailer). Used as permanent homes, or for holiday or temporary accommodation, they are often left permanently or ...
Category. : Manufactured home manufacturers. This category is for mobile, modular, ar any other type of manufactured (prefab) home builders to be listed.
Champion Homes was founded in 1953 as a single manufacturing facility in the small town of Dryden in rural Michigan by Walter W. Clark and Henry E. George. [5] In 2005, Champion was the first manufacturer to build privatized modular housing for the military. [5]
Clayton Homes (Houston) Susan V. Clayton Homes [1] was a public housing unit in the Second Ward area of the East End district of Houston. [2] Operated by the Houston Housing Authority (HHA), formerly the Housing Authority of the City of Houston (HACH), it was along Runnels Street, along the Buffalo Bayou and east of Downtown Houston.
RC Willey Home Furnishings (RC Willey) is an American home furnishings company in Utah, Idaho, Nevada and California. [1] It was founded in 1932 by Rufus Call Willey in Syracuse, Utah, RC. He began selling Hotpoint -brand appliances door-to-door out of the back of his pickup truck. RC Willey has 13 locations across the Western United States and ...