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The company was founded by Charles T. Jeffery and Thomas B. Jeffery, and sold under the brand name Rambler between 1902 and 1913. [1]On the death of the founder, Thomas Jeffery in 1910, his son Charles took over the business.
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.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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.
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