PERFECTION-COBEY     Although a relatively late entry in the refuse body market, Cobey can trace its lineage back to the late 1800s when founder Harry Cobey began manufacturing farm equipment at Galion, Ohio. With the dawn of the motor age, hydraulic hoists and dump bodies were eventually added, being sold by a division known as Perfection Steel Body. 1940s-era Perfection garbage bodies; these were merely standard dump truck boxes with sliding door covers affixed One of their larger dump units from 1954 COBEY LIFTAINER     The first Cobey refuse truck was a bottom-dumping, short-haul lugger called the Liftainer, introduced in 1958. Very similar to the Dempster Dumpster System, it marks the first time the Cobey name would appear on truck equipment, having heretofore been applied only to the farm implement line. Liftainer would remain in production through the late 1970s. The Cobey Liftianer is almost identical to the Dempster Dumpster model LFW Cobey durability; a 1960 Liftainer, ex-Army Corps of Engineers, in 2013. It rides on a newer Ford L-Series, but was originally mounted on an F-600 This big Liftainer Model 1010 from 1968 has a gross lifting capacity of up to 24,500 pounds 1/8/12 (Updated 6/12/22) © 2012 All Rights Reserved Photos from factory brochures/advertisements except as noted Logos shown are the trademarks of respective manufacturers