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Columbus Buggy Company

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506: 482:, with the company $ 624,000 in debt. Initially it was offered for sale for 25 cents on the dollar, but received only one offer, for less than $ 100,000, prompting its interests, headed by Frank L. Chase, to withdraw the offer. Under an order from a federal judge, $ 273,000, or 44 percent of the debt, was eventually paid to creditors. In 1914, a new entity, named the New Columbus Buggy Co., was incorporated with $ 500,000 in capital under a new ownership group, including C. A. Finnegan and E. D. Hoefeller of 236: 365: 373: 29: 199:, and quickly saw success. At its height it employed 1,200 people and was producing 100 buggies a day which were sold in every state in the United States. The company was one of the city's major employers and a significant portion of the city's buggy manufacturing economy. After the turn of the century it oriented itself toward production of electric vehicles and, later, of 162: 284:. The business saw immediate success thanks to a design created by the Peters brothers and a system of labor that made production efficient, and it sold 237 buggies in its first year. The building it was housed in burnt down on May 27, 1874, and was rebuilt. In 1875 its owners sold the business to another buggy producer, H. K. Tuller of Buckeye Buggy Company. 486:. This entity, controlled by the company's creditors, continued production at the plant. That same year, Firestone died. Both the Firestone Electric and the Columbus-Firestone vehicle lines were produced into 1915, when the company ceased operations, leaving an inventory of 35 new electric cars and 12 automobiles, as well as several used cars. 408:
speed of 20 miles per hour (32 km/h), limited range and a need to recharge batteries for several hours. Powered by Willard batteries, this car sold for about $ 1,000. It produced several models including the No. 3003 Firestone Motor Buggy: a light motor buggy, which it also marketed to physicians as a medical
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By 1900, about two dozen other buggy producers had formed around Columbus, with factories working day and night in the city, and an estimated one in six buggies in use around the world was built in Columbus. Some of these companies were older than Columbus Buggy Co, but the manufacturer remained one
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as his assistant. The Firestone-Columbus, a gasoline-powered car geared toward families, began production in 1909. About 500 of the vehicles sold in the first year and it was generally well received in the market. Improvements were made to the vehicles continually as they were produced, as opposed
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for two months before the courts decided in Studebaker's favor in December 1884. Columbus Buggy Co. was obliged to pay $ 3,000 in damages, though it began to use Timken springs in models starting in 1886, and the Timken and Firestone families maintained a friendly relationship during and after the
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The company played a key role in shaping the early history of the automobile. Its manufacturing processes for efficiently producing vehicles were notable and ahead of many companies of its time. The success of the business brought attention to C. D. Firestone, who became a prominent figure in the
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in 1903, the Columbus Electric Model No. 1000. This would be one of several models of electric vehicle the company produced in larger scale beginning in 1905. The company advertised the vehicles as easy to operate, targeting women, and that they were quiet. But the vehicles were limited by a top
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Eddie Rickenbacker joined the company at the age of 17, and he quickly became an engineer and troubleshooter, dispatched to help owners when they had problems with their vehicles, and his service increased the reputation of the business among its owners. It was during this assignment that
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C. D. Firestone constructed a substantial terra-cotta home at 580 East Broad St. Completed in 1886, the mansion was sold to the Columbus Mutual Life Insurance Co. which used it as a headquarters until the building was demolished in 1962. The site subsequently was home to an auto
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The company continued to add buildings as it continued to expand along High Street until it became the largest manufacturer of buggies in the world. By 1888 it occupied an entire city block between High Street and Wall Street. In 1890 it pledged $ 5,000 to the creation of a
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at another Columbus buggy producer. E. & H. F. Booth at Fourth and Gay streets, in 1856 for $ 3 per week. His father, Tunis Peters, owned a large tanyard, Peters Run, in Columbus where he learned the business and later went into work building houses in
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and building using a specialized manufacturing system. Before 1870 they produced 100 and sold them successfully at auction, though their business partners refused further work, leaving them in debt. In 1870, they were introduced to Firestone, a native of
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a day, with its products exported to other countries around the world. Its revenue grew to $ 2 million a year on an active capital of about $ 1 million and about $ 300,000 a month in payroll. The company had a presence at the
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The company's original buildings north of downtown Columbus were redeveloped as part of a larger revival of the industrial area north of Columbus — by then termed the Arena District — following the construction of
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Before starting the company, the Peters brothers had worked in the leather trade, but had developed a process to produce cheap buggies for close to $ 150 apiece, using wood obtained from a company near the
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before many of them burned in a fire in 1845. A subsequent trunk manufacturing business is believed to be where Peters developed manufacturing skills that would lead to the success of Columbus Buggy Co.
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In 1875, the three formed the Columbus Buggy Company and Peters Dash Company, with $ 20,000 in capital. Its first facility was locating at Wall and Locust streets near the modern day
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leased the plant and built automobiles there before closing in 1923. The building itself was home to Janitrol Corp. before being redeveloped as the Buggyworks building in the 1990s.
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of the largest businesses in the city. Columbus Buggy Co. moved its production to a new plant at 400 Dublin Road in 1906 at Firestone's insistence.
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building in downtown Columbus. In the meantime, it began advertising its vehicles and dash products heavily in magazines.
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as a ripe location for a business thanks to cheap labor as well as the recent network of railroads created during the
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In 1883, the company had 1,000 employees and was producing 25,000 buggies a year. That year it was struck with a
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to produce rubber tires for carriages and buggies. By 1904, it was the largest tire manufacturer in the world.
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Rickenbacker, while serving as a test driver for the vehicles, developed an affinity for driving fast cars.
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First home of the Iron Buggy Co., the predecessor of the Columbus Buggy Co., at 180 N. High St. in Columbus
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Several of the company's employees rose to great prominence in the industry. Clinton Firestone's cousin,
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The Columbus Buggy Company was established by entrepreneur Clinton D. Firestone and brothers George and
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It influenced the early automobile industry production methods and several notable employees, including
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Begun by three business partners, the company set up its manufacturing facilities in what is today the
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At its height in 1892, the company employed 1,200 people and built 100 vehicles and 1,500 carriage
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Some of the original sales catalog promotional material of the company are still preserved in the
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carriage industry and he became president of the Carriage Builders National Association in 1888.
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A Historical Guidebook to Old Columbus: Finding the Past in the Present in Ohio's Capital City
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An advertisement for a 1911 "Mechanical Greyhound" automobile produced by Columbus Buggy Co.
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Friends, Families, & Forays: Scenes from the Life and Times of Henry Ford
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The business was affected by the severe flooding of local rivers during the
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was a salesman for Columbus Buggy Co. before he launched his own company,
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and it this damaged the business sufficiently for it to declare
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The 400 Dublin Road facility began producing its first electric
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to compete with these new and increasingly popular vehicles.
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also granted them ample access to coal, wood and iron from
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Automobile Manufacturers of Cleveland and Ohio, 1864-1942
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and unable to compete with cheaper alternatives like the
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Following the closure of the Columbus Buggy Co. The
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A later model Columbus-Firestone automobile in 1909
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Columbus, Ohio
United States
Oscar Glaze Peters

Crawford Museum
buggy
automotive manufacturer
Columbus, Ohio
Arena District
dashboards
automobiles
Great Flood of 1913
Model T
Eddie Rickenbacker
Harvey S. Firestone

Oscar
Columbus, Ohio
American Civil War
Hocking Valley Railway
southeast Ohio
Ohio Penitentiary
Canton, Ohio
Cedar Rapids, Iowa

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