Freighter-Lawton was the name given to a 4WD vehicle project of Freighter Industries, an Australian road transport equipment company founded in Melbourne in 1948 by Noel Peal. In 1956 Peal decided to produce a four-wheel-drive vehicle. He first tried to obtain manufacturing rights for Australia and South-East Asia, approaching Henry Kaiser in the United States about the Willys Jeep and holding talks with Nippon in Japan and the Standard Motor…
