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Thomas Buckland Jeffery (5 February 1845 – 2 April 1910) [2] was a British emigrant to the United States who co-founded the Gormully & Jeffery company which made the Rambler bicycle. He invented the "clincher" rim which was widely used to fit tires to bicycles and early automobiles, and in 1900 established the Thomas B. Jeffery Company to ...
1910 (Jun 10) – Charles T. Jeffery incorporates the firm as a $3 million (US$98,100,000 in 2023 dollars [7]) public stock company. [6] 1914 – The Rambler name is replaced with the Jeffery moniker in honor of the company's founder, Thomas B. Jeffery. 1916 (Aug) – Charles T. Jeffery sells the company to former GM president Charles W. Nash.
Newspaper ad for a "Rambler" by Gormully & Jeffery Manufacturing Company (1891) From 1887 to 1900, Gormully & Jeffery marketed their products under the Rambler brand. They used a variety of new techniques, improving the quality of their bikes. [1] Under the Rambler brand, Gormully & Jeffery marketed a range of bicycles with various designs and ...
The Rambler brand was created in 1878 by Thomas B. Jeffery, who co-founded G&J in Chicago with R. Philip Gormully.At the time, low prices often took precedence over quality but in manufacturing the Rambler, G&J used several more costly techniques, such as using brass-brazed joints instead of more common non-brazed welds, which improved the quality of the bicycle.
The Jeffery Six (called the Chesterfield Six in 1915) was a 48 hp six-cylinder car on a 128 inch chassis. The cars were moderately priced from $1,550 to $1,950, (equivalent to $58,731 in 2023) and came in open or closed body styles. [1] The Jeffery cars were available with special bodies that were manufactured by the W.S. Seaman Company. [2]
Rambler innovated various design features and was the first to equip cars with a spare wheel-and-tire assembly. This allowed the driver, when experiencing a flat tire, to exchange the spare wheel and tire for the flat one, rather than patching. [1] Jeffery started commercially mass-producing automobiles in 1902. By the end of the year the ...
Nash Motors was founded in 1916 by former General Motors president Charles W. Nash, who acquired the Thomas B. Jeffery Company. [3] Jeffery's best-known automobile was the Rambler whose mass production from a plant in Kenosha began in 1902. The 1917 Nash Model 671 was the first vehicle produced to bear the name of the new company's founder. [4]
The U.S. Army was Jeffery's best customer during the years of World War I. The four-wheel, chain-drive Jeffery Quad eventually became the workhorse of the Allied Expeditionary Force. [2] Jeffery also made impressive advances in sales of his automobile. He dropped the Rambler marque in 1914 in favor of "Jeffery" and produced 10,283 of them.