Early in the 20th century, Yonkers also hosted a brass era automobile maker, Colt Runabout Company.No apparent relation to Colt's Patent Firearms. Clymer, Floyd.
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The Metz Company was a pioneer brass era automobile maker established by Charles Herman Metz in Waltham, Massachusetts, from ca.1908 to 1922.Clymer, p. 145.
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The Adams Company is an American manufacturing concern. It was founded in 1883 and is based in Dubuque, Iowa. Between 1905 and 1912 it produced the Adams- Farwell, a brass era automobile.
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The Jackson Automobile Company was an American Brass Era automobile manufacturer located in and named for Jackson, Michigan. The company produced the Jackson from 1903 to 1923, as well as the 1903 Jaxon steam car and the 1904 Orlo.
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The valley was home to the Milwaukee Road, Falk Corporation, Cutler-Hammer, Harnischfeger Corporation, Chain Belt Company, Nordberg Manufacturing Company and other industry giants. Early in the 20th century, Milwaukee was home to several pioneer brass era automobile makers, including Ogren (1919–1922).
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1906 Bay State advertisement The Bay State Automobile Company was a Brass Era automobile manufacturer based in Boston, Massachusetts. It was founded by Rossell Drisko and Frederick E. Randall in 1906, and lasted to 1908. It produced a touring car, the Bay State Forty.
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Galesburg was home to the pioneering brass era automobile company Western, which produced the Gale, named for the town.Clymer, Floyd. Treasury of Early American Automobiles, 1877-1925 (New York: Bonanza Books, 1950), p.51. Galesburg was home to minor league baseball from 1890 to 1914.
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The port of Duluth was created by the mining boom and today continues to be an important shipping port for the Midwest's agricultural and ore products. Manufacturing was not left out, either. The brass era automobile maker Dan Patch was founded in Minneapolis in 1911.Named for the horse.
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The brass era automobile maker Dan Patch was founded in Minneapolis in 1911. The company was owned by Savage and was one of 16 manufacturers in Minnesota at the time. This operation came to an end when the Ford Motor Company began its assembly operations in St. Paul.Clymer, Floyd.
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Another major employer throughout the first two-thirds of the 20th century was the Illinois Central Railroad. Among the others was the less-successful brass era automobile manufacturer, the Maytag-Mason Motor Company.Clymer, Floyd. Treasury of Early American Automobiles, 1877–1925 (New York: Bonanza Books, 1950), p.93.
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As the forests of West Michigan were logged out, paper mills closed. Early in the 20th century, Kalamazoo was home to the brass era automobile company Barley. Kalamazoo was also headquarters of the Checker Motors Company, the former manufacturer of the Checker Cab, which also stamped sheet metal parts for other auto manufacturers. Checker closed on June 25, 2009, a victim of the Late-2000s recession.
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Western Tool Works was a pioneering brass era automobile manufacturer in Galesburg, Illinois. The company made Gale automobiles from 1904 to 1910. Early Gale runabouts were notable for having bodywork hinged at the rear of the car that could be lifted to ease access to the engine, essentially making the entire body the hood. In 1905 Western produced the Gale Model A runabout for sale at US$500.
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Early in the 20th century, Dubuque was one of several sites of a brass era automobile company, Adams-Farwell; like most others, it folded. Subsequently, Dubuque grew significantly, and industrial activity remained its economic mainstay until the 1980s. During that time, a series of changes in manufacturing and the onset of the "Farm Crisis" led to a large decline in the sector and the city's economy as a whole. In the 1990s, the economy diversified rapidly, shifting away from heavy industry.
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The Keeton raced by Bob Burman in the 1913 Indianapolis 500 Keeton Motor Company was a pioneer brass era automobile maker based in Detroit, Michigan. Keeton's 1913 "48" was a six-cylinder five-passenger tourer with left-hand steering, 12½ in (31.75 cm)-diameterClymer, Floyd. Treasury of Early American Automobiles, 1877-1925 (New York: Bonanza Books, 1950), p.131. electric headlights, starter, and horn.Clymer, p.131. There were four forward speeds, an 80 mph (128 km/h) speedometer, and the choice of wires spoked wood wheels.
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1905 Michigan The Michigan was a pioneering brass era automobile built in Kalamazoo, Michigan by the Michigan Automobile Company from 1903 to 1908. It was one of the first vehicles that featured four-wheel-drive propulsion. The men behind the company were the Fuller brothers, Charles D. and Frank D. They owned the Fuller Brothers Manufacturing Company that made washboards and other wood products. After negotiating with the Blood brothers, owners of the Kalamazoo Cycle Company and builders of the Blood cycle car, on December, 30th, 1902, they established the Michigan Automobile Company with Charles Fuller as chairman, Frank Fuller as secretary and general manager, Maurice E. Blood as treasurer, and Charles C. Blood as superintendent.
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The city is home to a number of large estates, including Gore Place, a mansion built in 1806 for former Massachusetts governor Christopher Gore, the Robert Treat Paine Estate, a residence designed by architect Henry Hobson Richardson and landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted for philanthropist Robert Treat Paine, Jr. (1810–1905), and the Lyman Estate, a estate built in 1793 by Boston merchant Theodore Lyman. In 1857, the Waltham Model 1857 watch was produced by the American Watch Company in the city of Waltham, Massachusetts. In the late 19th and early 20th century, Waltham was home to the brass era automobile manufacturer Metz, where the first production motorcycle in the U.S. was built. Another first in Waltham industrial history involves the method to mass-produce the magnetron tube, invented by Percy Spencer at Raytheon.
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The Colt Runabout was an American brass era automobile, built in Yonkers, New York, in 1907Clymer, Floyd. Treasury of Early American Automobiles, 1877-1925 (New York: Bonanza Books, 1950), p.63. by William Mason Turner. It was a two- seater, with the long hood and short tail (where a pair of spare tires were mounted) characteristic of the period,Clymer, p.63. and weighing in at only 1800 lb (816 kg). It was priced at US$1500, compared to US$650 for the high- volume Oldsmobile RunaboutClymer, p.32. and the 2-seat Ford Model C "Doctor's Car" at US$850,Clymer, p.37. but below the US$1600 of the Oakland 40Clymer, p.84. and well below even American's lowest-price model, which was US$4250 (its highest was US$5250).
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