Hometown
Manufacturing
Since the very first prototype built, our products have been designed with one goal, to combine high-quality craftsmanship with the latest innovative technology. It began with trailers, transformed into Trolleys and food trucks, then expanded into buses.
Hand-Crafted
in Wisconsin
Transportation is the core of Hometown Manufacturing. From small private tours to everyday mass transit to National Park shuttling, each Hometown Manufactured product is hand-crafted to meet your specific needs and budget.
Our Heritage
Lewis Kiser (ancestral grandfather) begins inventing, Decatur, IL.
Lewis Kiser invents and patents Air Compressed Engine.
Lewis Kiser invents and patents chassis
Bruce and Neil Pence (brothers) built custom truck camper toppers and modified extended truck cabs.
Bruce and his wife Louella incorporated business as Lazy N’, continue designing and building custom trailors.
Bruce Pence designs and builds his first trolley bus at Lazy N, Inc.
Second-generation steps into the leadership role. Double K, Inc. was incorporated by Kevin and Kristina Pence and moved business to Crandon, WI.
Double K, Inc. sends a rear-engine trolley using a Freightliner XB chassis in for Altoona testing at Penn State.
Double K, Inc. sends the front-engine model trolley using a Freightliner MB55 in for Altoona testing at Penn State.
Double K, Inc. began branding the product as “Hometown Trolley”. The two available models are the Villager and the Mainstreet.
Hometown Trolley develops 2 new models, the Streetcar and Carriage as well as their own patent-pending low floor chassis.
Hometown Trolley purchases the Classic American Trolley Product Line from the Supreme Corporation.
Hometown Trolley expands and rebrands as Hometown Manufacturing to encompass existing and future vehicle lines.
Builds and develops Hometown Coach modern bus line. First model completes Altoona test at Penn State
Streetcar with L9 CNG Drivetrain completes Altoona Test.
2020 Villager electrified
2020 View electrified
Hometown Coach line expands with development of Commuter. Completes altoona test at Penn State.
Develops new heavy-duty, low-floor Urban bus, testing at Penn State.
