DAF Lorries

Hub van Doorne and his brother Wim set up a transport engineering company at Eindhoven, the Netherlands, in 1928. The official name was to become Van Doorne’s Aanhangwagenfabriek, which translated as ‘Van Doorne’s trailer factory’, and the company was subsequently known as DAF.In 1948, DAF’s first prototype lorries were produced and the company maintained the reputation for quality products establ...