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The Allstate is an American automobile that was offered for sale through Sears, Roebuck and Co. during the 1952 and 1953 model years. It was a rebadged version of the Henry J , an automobile manufactured by the Kaiser-Frazer company from 1950 through 1954.
In the film, the Sears shows itself to be capable of running well on smooth roads, through deep water, and through pumpkin patches. [2] The company is not related to the current Lincoln Motor Company luxury car brand owned by Ford Motor Company, which was founded by Henry M. Leland in 1917, two years after Sears stopped selling cars.
Allstate was an American brand of vehicles marketed by Sears. Scooters , motorcycles, and cars were sourced from several manufacturers and re-badged with the Sears "Allstate" brand. Piaggio and Cushman were major suppliers of scooters, while Puch and Gilera supplied mopeds and motorcycles, and cars at different times were supplied by the ...
Stairclimber wheels. A stairclimber is a type of trolley fitted with rotating wheels or tracks so that it can be pushed or pulled up or down steps or a stairway.Stairclimbers can be manual or battery-powered, and are commonly found in wheel, track, push arm or walker variants.
Lack of parts and finance led to the company's sale in mid-1924. [2] The New Climber Company built approximately 200 cars from available parts, then wound the business up. [ 2 ] Part of the Climber Motor Car Factory, Unit A , is listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 2005.
Sears sold a version of these models under the Allstate brand. Cushman scooters featured an automatic centrifugal clutch , which allowed the rider to twist the right grip to accelerate. Oddly, the throttle twisted forward during acceleration, opposite the usual pattern in most other motorcycles and scooters.
The Gallery Car is a bilevel rail car, originally created by the Pullman Company as the Pullman Gallery Car. It has had five total different manufacturers since its creation, including Budd , St. Louis Car Company , Amerail , Nippon Sharyo and Canadian Vickers .
The Stairmaster was patented in 1987 and soon after other companies offered versions of stair type exercise equipment. In 1991 StairMaster Exercise Systems, sued Temecula, California based Tru-Trac Therapy Products Inc. who made the "Aero-Step" alleging that their 1987 patent was infringed upon.