Short of dazzling conversational topics for your next social event or need to find out more about pallets for a research project? Fear no more.
Pallets and their predecessor, the shop skid, definitely came into use in the early 20th Century, but pallet-like prototypes were probably in use hundreds of years earlier. Below are links to articles that touch upon the history of pallet use.
- What Came First, The Pallet or the Forklift
- History of the Pallet Truck
- When Did Pallet Pooling Begin?
- Pallets During World War 2 – Quartermaster Corps
- A History of Pallets During World War 2 – A Call to Action
- Second Word War – Why Use Two When One Will Do
- When Was the “Europallet” First Introduced?
- The Pallet Pooling Opportunity – A Perspective from 1945
- A Reference Guide for the Construction and Inspection of Wood Pallets – 1954
- Changing approach to Palletization Led to Union Disputes
- When Was the First Europallet Introduced?
- Enduring Standard: EUR Pallet Celebrates Fifty Years