Italian immigrant Antonio Pasin started making furniture and those old phonograph cabinets, and he also made a wooden wagon. "In the late 1920s, he switched from wood to steel, so that he could mass-produce his wagons", his grandson, Robert Pasin said.
He chose the words "radio" and "flyer" because they were the two coolest high-tech inventions of the day
Credit for the above trivia: Justyna Syska & Robert Pasin