Miley Trailers

Does any one have any information on this brand of trailer? I haven't heard of them but I am from the west coast and they may be more popular on the east coast.

I am looking for an affordable trailer. This trailer won't be used a lot so I have a hard time justifying 10,000 and more for a trailer that may be used once or twice  a year.

Thank you,

 I am new to this sight. I will figure out how to do that.

Thank you

We also looked at the Miley, but we were not impressed with the quality.

Yes they were cheaper, but for good reason.

there is alot of them on the lots here in Canada that sit for along time.

there are better trailers in a decent price range.

Try the Royal T trailers, well made and same price range.

It's always educational shopping and this site helped us to find to make an informed decision when we bought our trailer.

Rex Cauble, owner of Miley back then, was called the godfather of the Texas mafia by the US attorney prosecuting the case. Mr. Cauble was charged and convicted of using new trailer deliveries to other parts of the country to smuggle drugs, mostly Colombian in nature.  The DEA seized his trailer factory, huge ranch beside IH35 just north of Denton, TX, and his Cutter Bill Western Wear stores. He also owned the famous palomino cutting horse Cutter Bill, but as I remember, the horse had been syndicated when this happened. Mr. Cauble had been a large benefactor and contributor to several charities and organizations in the Dallas/Ft. Worth area, among them one in which at the time, I was a volunteer leader. The Boy Scouts of America. 

Dear Sir,  I quit teaching college to go to work for Rex Cauble, the last "true" owner of Miley Trailers.  I worked for him from the middle 70's to the very early 80's.  I eventually came to manage his western store Cutter Bill's, as well as manage his Miley Trailer business.  I eventually came to be on the Board of Directors for Miley Trailer.  In additon I was responsible for servicing all the dealers in Texas that were south of Fort Worth.  I also set up new dealers including several in Mexico.  I also worked for Rex at the same time several of his empolyees decided to get in to the marijuana smuggling business.  Yes, he did forfit Miley Trailers and Cutter Bill's Western Wear and his ranch on I35 among his other holdings to satistfy the governments conviction as forfiture for his one third portion of Cauble Enterprise.  I would probably tend to strongly disagree with the former Boy Scout volunteer leader about new miley trailers being involved in smuggling.  I was there and worked with and personally knew all the involved players.  I was not involved in the drug problems and left during that time and went back to teaching college.

Miley... Started life in the early 1950's with the partnership of Sam Miley and Mack McQuerry.  They named thier company "Cirlce M" Trailers.  By the very early 1960's they had manfacturing plants in Fort Wayne, Indiana (where only 2 horse side by side were made), Sacramento, Cal. and the home base of Fort Worth, Tx. locate on the corner of Decatur Ave and 28th Street.  By the middle 1960's Sam and Mack disoved their partnership and Mack moved two doors down on Decatur Ave. and started McQuerry Trailers which went belly up in the middle 1980's (I think becasue of his death and family estate problems).  Sam Miley changed the name to "Miley Trailers", and was later sold to Rex in the very late 1960's.

  During that time Mcquerry and Miley Trailers were the best in the country.  In the middle 1980's Rex leased the name to a group in California which manufactured trailers for several years.  It is my understanding form reading the brochure that Universal trailers bought the rights to the Miley name from a family member!

 I still am the proud owner of a very prestine 2 horse Miley inline gooseneck and a totally renovated 2 horse McQuerry inline bumper pull.  And they still pull as great as they did when new!

When I saw the current trailers carrying the Miley name, I thought they were "Pile of Junk" and made the comment that they looked like those Haulmark cargo trailers with windows punched in it!  Then a trailer manufacturer owner told me that, "I guess so, they are owned by Universal trailer", which in turn owns Haulmark and that is exactly where they are made, at he Haulmark plant!  If Rex Cauble were alive, he would surely die!   For Miley was his pride, joy and pet toy!

Caution - long and slightly off topic.

I have lived in or near Ft Worth all of my life and believe most of his "facts" about Rex Cauble, Sam Miley, and Mack McQuerry are correct. I just don't know about all of Rex Cauble's problems, so can't validate all of those facts. But I do agree with jcarmen about the quality of original Mileys and McQuerry trailers. The only two-horse trailers I have ever owned were built by one or the other. Even the 1974 McQuerry bumper-pull in-line I have now, which needs some serious cosmetic work, is still structurally sound and pulls great. I'm trying to find time this weekend to go look at an '85 McQuerry GN in-line to try to buy.

Can't resist sharing story of the best McQuerry in-line I had. In 1965 as I was driving out in the country, I spotted a 2-H bp McQuerry in-line setting in a pasture with a FOR SALE sign on it. This one was a custom job with a 4' dressing room on the front and tandem axles in the rear. I convinced my non-horsey wife that we (I) needed this trailer. Surprisingly she agreed and I bought it. Pulled it with a '64 Chevy Impala Super Sport Coupe. Later bought a new '66 Pontiac station wagon to pull it with. Got drafted, sold trailer before going to Viet Nam. Came back and went back to college in Huntsville, TX (close to Houston). Three years after selling the trailer in North Texas I was driving through the piney woods of Southeast Texas and what do you suppose was setting in a pasture with a FOR SALE sign on it. Yep, same trailer - still in great shape. Bought it again and kept it until traded it off several years later for a four-horse. I often wonder whatever happened to that trailer. I'd probably buy it again if I were to stumble on it. Oh yeah, non-horsey wife sent me a Dear John letter while I was in VN. Met present wife at a stable there at college and we're still horsing around today. Our first date was using that McQuerry in-line to go to the first of many horse shows together.

Due to the interest on the history of the Miley and McQuerry products, you all might want to know that J.D. McQuerry passed away on November 24th or 25th, just a few days ago.