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Thomas B. Jeffery Company
The Thomas B. Jeffery Company was an American automobile manufacturer in Kenosha, Wisconsin, from 1902 until 1916. The company manufactured the Rambler and Jeffery brand motorcars. The Gormully & Jeffery Manufacturing Company, a bicycle manufacturer, preceded it. It was the company that formed Nash Motors, and thus one of the automakers that merged to become American Motors Corporation (AMC), later part of Chrysler, and subsequently Stellantis.
Thomas B. Jeffery was an inventor and an industrialist. He was one of America's first entrepreneurs interested in automobiles in the late 19th century. In 1897, he built his first prototype motorcar. Thomas B. Jeffery was serious enough about automobiles to sell his stake in Gormully & Jeffery to the American Bicycle Company to finance his new car company.
Charles T. Jeffery's (Thomas' son) experimental prototypes of 1901 (Models A and B) used at least two radical innovations – steering wheels and front-mounted engines. By the time Charles was ready for production in 1902, his father had talked him out of these wild dreams and convinced him to stick with tillers and engines under the seat.
From 1902 until 1908, Jeffery moved steadily to bigger, more reliable models, starting with the 1902 Model C. Jeffery cars were built on assembly lines (the second manufacturer to adopt them, Olds Motor Works was first), and in 1903, Jeffery sold 1,350 Ramblers. By 1905, Jeffery had more than doubled this number. One reason may have been that Charles went back to the steering wheel before 1904. In 1907, Jeffery was building a large variety of different body styles and sizes. Among them was a five-passenger, US$2,500 Rambler weighing 2,600 pounds (1,179 kilograms) and powered by a 250 horsepower (186 kilowatts) engine.
In April 1910, Thomas B. Jeffery died in Pompeii, Italy. In June of that year, the business was incorporated as the Thomas B. Jeffery Company, with Charles T. Jeffery as president and general manager, and H.W. Jeffery as vice president and treasurer.
In 1915, Charles T. Jeffery changed the automotive brand from Rambler to Jeffery to honor his father, Thomas B. Jeffery.
In 1916, G.H. Eddy replaced H.W. Jeffery as treasurer, allowing Jeffery to focus on the vice presidency. G.W. Greiner was the secretary, L.H. Bill the general manager, J.W. DeCou the factory manager, and Al Recke the sales manager.
Charles T. Jeffery survived the sinking of the RMS Lusitania (a British luxury liner torpedoed by the Germans in World War I) in 1915. He thus decided to spend the rest of his life more enjoyably.
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Thomas B. Jeffery Company
The Thomas B. Jeffery Company was an American automobile manufacturer in Kenosha, Wisconsin, from 1902 until 1916. The company manufactured the Rambler and Jeffery brand motorcars. The Gormully & Jeffery Manufacturing Company, a bicycle manufacturer, preceded it. It was the company that formed Nash Motors, and thus one of the automakers that merged to become American Motors Corporation (AMC), later part of Chrysler, and subsequently Stellantis.
Thomas B. Jeffery was an inventor and an industrialist. He was one of America's first entrepreneurs interested in automobiles in the late 19th century. In 1897, he built his first prototype motorcar. Thomas B. Jeffery was serious enough about automobiles to sell his stake in Gormully & Jeffery to the American Bicycle Company to finance his new car company.
Charles T. Jeffery's (Thomas' son) experimental prototypes of 1901 (Models A and B) used at least two radical innovations – steering wheels and front-mounted engines. By the time Charles was ready for production in 1902, his father had talked him out of these wild dreams and convinced him to stick with tillers and engines under the seat.
From 1902 until 1908, Jeffery moved steadily to bigger, more reliable models, starting with the 1902 Model C. Jeffery cars were built on assembly lines (the second manufacturer to adopt them, Olds Motor Works was first), and in 1903, Jeffery sold 1,350 Ramblers. By 1905, Jeffery had more than doubled this number. One reason may have been that Charles went back to the steering wheel before 1904. In 1907, Jeffery was building a large variety of different body styles and sizes. Among them was a five-passenger, US$2,500 Rambler weighing 2,600 pounds (1,179 kilograms) and powered by a 250 horsepower (186 kilowatts) engine.
In April 1910, Thomas B. Jeffery died in Pompeii, Italy. In June of that year, the business was incorporated as the Thomas B. Jeffery Company, with Charles T. Jeffery as president and general manager, and H.W. Jeffery as vice president and treasurer.
In 1915, Charles T. Jeffery changed the automotive brand from Rambler to Jeffery to honor his father, Thomas B. Jeffery.
In 1916, G.H. Eddy replaced H.W. Jeffery as treasurer, allowing Jeffery to focus on the vice presidency. G.W. Greiner was the secretary, L.H. Bill the general manager, J.W. DeCou the factory manager, and Al Recke the sales manager.
Charles T. Jeffery survived the sinking of the RMS Lusitania (a British luxury liner torpedoed by the Germans in World War I) in 1915. He thus decided to spend the rest of his life more enjoyably.
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