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  2. Wright Cycle Company - Wikipedia

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    After both brothers purchased bicycles in the spring of 1892, their aptitude with bicycle repairs and the high demand for repairmen led them to starting their own repair shop. In December 1892, they rented a storefront at 1005 West Third Street, where they officially started the Wright Cycle Exchange. They sold bicycles from $40 to $100.

  3. Arthur Lovett Garford - Wikipedia

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    Garford was born on August 4, 1858, in Elyria, Ohio. As an 1875 graduate of Elyria High School, he began his career as a cashier and bookkeeper before he started the Garford Manufacturing Company in Elyria in 1892 and became the inventor of the first padded bicycle seat, [1] known as the 'Garford Saddle'. Over 1 million saddles were sold in the ...

  4. Murray (bicycle company) - Wikipedia

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    Murray Ohio Manufacturing Company was founded in 1919 to make fenders, fuel tanks, and other automobile parts. [1] The company was founded in Cleveland, Ohio, and the Cleveland factory was unionized by the United Auto Workers (UAW) and AFL–CIO. In the mid-1930s, the company began production of bicycles, mostly for the youth market.

  5. History of the bicycle - Wikipedia

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    1886 Swift Safety Bicycle. Vehicles that have two wheels and require balancing by the rider date back to the early 19th century. The first means of transport making use of two wheels arranged consecutively, and thus the archetype of the bicycle, was the German draisine dating back to 1817.

  6. Bicycle Museum of America - Wikipedia

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    The museum houses antique bicycles from the 19th century, balloon tire classics of the 1940s and 1950s and banana seat high-rise handle bar bikes of the 1960s. [3]The museum has more bicycles than it can display at any one time in the 3-story downtown historic building, despite hanging bicycles from ceilings and mounting them on almost every wall, so the museum occasionally rotates the ...

  7. Elmore Manufacturing Company - Wikipedia

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    Elmore Manufacturing Company was a manufacturer of veteran and brass era automobiles and bicycles (1893–97), [1] headquartered at 504 Amanda Street, [2] Clyde, Ohio, from 1893 until 1912. The company took its name from a small parcel of land in Clyde with the name Elmore associated with it where a stave mill was established originally, then ...

  8. Huffy - Wikipedia

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    The Penguin was the first of the banana-seat chopper bicycles to reach the U.S. market. [8] [9] [10] The Huffy Penguin introduction. In November 1964, Huffman Manufacturing Company ran an advertisement for their new Dragster model in Life Magazine, which claimed that Huffman was the first to manufacture a bicycle of the high-rise type. [11] [12]

  9. George Huffman - Wikipedia

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    George Phillips Huffman (September 6, 1862 – December 31, 1897) was an American businessman. His Davis Sewing Machine Company, which began producing bicycles in the late 19th century, was the precursor to the Huffman Manufacturing Company (later became the Huffy Corporation), a manufacturer of bicycles.

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