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[12] [13] He successfully tested it in January 1891, inside an 80-foot (24 m) farm equipment showroom he owned and managed in Ohio City, Ohio. [14] He did his first outside driving in late February of that year, on the main street of the city. [13] [15] It had a four-stroke engine. It had a forward center small wheel for steering, which was ...
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]
Coach of a noble family, c. 1870 The word carriage (abbreviated carr or cge) is from Old Northern French cariage, to carry in a vehicle. [3] The word car, then meaning a kind of two-wheeled cart for goods, also came from Old Northern French about the beginning of the 14th century [3] (probably derived from the Late Latin carro, a car [4]); it is also used for railway carriages and in the US ...
A Rockaway carriage at a museum in Illinois. Rockaway is a term applied to two types of carriage: a light, low, United States four-wheel carriage with a fixed top and open sides that may be covered by waterproof curtains, and a heavy carriage enclosed at sides and rear, with a door on each side.
Cabriolet: A two-wheel carriage with a folding hood. Calash or Calèshe: see barouche: A four-wheeled, shallow vehicle with two double seats inside, arranged vis-à-vis so that the sitters on the front seat faced those on the back seat. Cape cart: A two-wheeled four-seater carriage drawn by two horses and formerly used in South Africa.
The Gendron Iron Wheel Company was founded in 1872 in Toledo, Ohio by Peter Gendron (born Pierre Gendron, 1844-1910). [1] Gendron originally produced wire wheels for baby carriages. In 1890, it produced bicycles , tricycles , invalid chairs , baby carriages , doll carriages, coaster wagons , toy wheelbarrows , [ 2 ] and children's diecast toy ...
A fisher, a mammal gone from Ohio for nearly two centuries, was discovered as roadkill in Kent, ... It was found at the intersection of state Route 59 and state Route 261, in Franklin Township ...
The Overland Automobile department was founded in Terre Haute, Indiana, by Claude E. Cox, when Charles Minshall of Standard Wheel Company decided to expand into automobile manufacturing. Standard Wheel were major suppliers of wheels to the carriage industry. Cox, a recent graduate of Rose Polytechnic Institute, developed a gasoline runabout in ...