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Bennett Buggy (University of Saskatchewan) A Bennett buggy was a term used in Canada during the Great Depression to describe a car which had its engine, windows and sometimes frame work taken out and was pulled by a horse. In the United States, such vehicles were known as Hoover carts or Hoover wagons, named after then-President Herbert Hoover ...
In 1875, the three formed the Columbus Buggy Company and Peters Dash Company, [6] with $20,000 in capital. [4] Its first facility was locating at Wall and Locust streets near the modern day One Nationwide Plaza building in the Arena District, immediately north of downtown Columbus, and near the Ohio Penitentiary and Union Station. [10]
The agents in distant cities reassembled the knocked-down cars before sale. To better serve the network of sales dealerships. Ford took direct control of agencies in New York and Philadelphia in 1905 and the following year established company-owned branches in Boston, Buffalo, Cleveland, Chicago, St. Louis, and Kansas City, initially in leased ...
Bennett buggy, a Canadian, depression era term for an automobile pulled by a horse; Dune buggy, designed for use on sand dunes; Baja Bug, a modified Volkswagen Beetle; Moon buggy, nickname for the Lunar Roving Vehicle used on the Moon during the Apollo program's Apollo 15, Apollo 16, and Apollo 17 missions; Sandrail, a variant of the dune buggy
Can-Am buggy in the armed forces of Kazakhstan Can-Am Outlander 6x6 T3 all-terrain vehicle with winter tracks Royal Marines trialling mortars fired from a Can-Am Outlander in 2020. Can-Am is a Canadian subsidiary of Bombardier Recreational Products, once part of Bombardier Inc. Its products include ATVs, motorcycles, and side-by-side vehicles.
Canadian car owners who could no longer afford gasoline reverted to having their vehicles pulled by horses and dubbed them Bennett Buggies. Bennett's perceived failures during the Great Depression led to the re-election of Mackenzie King's Liberals in the 1935 election.
A single Buckeye gasoline buggy automobile was built by the company in 1890, and offered for sale in 1891, though none were produced. [4] [5] [6] ...
This partial list of city nicknames in the State of Ohio compiles the aliases, sobriquets and slogans that cities in Ohio are known by (or have been known by historically), officially and unofficially, to municipal governments, local people, outsiders or their tourism boards or chambers of commerce.