I collect old beer crates (great for storing barleywines that need to age for years), but I haven't heard of that one.
I did a little more snooping on Ebling Brewing Co. and came up with this picture of a 1934 Studebaker delivery truck of theirs.

Couldn't find anything else significant other that a short newspaper article from the New York Times from 1888 about a fire in the malthouse.
Wayne