Anchor Buggy Company
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The Anchor Buggy Company was an American buggy manufacturer in Cincinnati, Ohio from 1886 to 1917. After 1917, it operated as the Anchor Top & Body Company till 1927.[1]
The Anchor Carriage Company also had a short-lived automotive branch called the Anchor Motor Car Company (1910—1911).[2]
History
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The Anchor Buggy Co. was founded between 1886 and 1887 by Alfred F. Klausmeyer and Anthony G. Brunsman.[1][3]
It became one of the largest carriage building companies in the region,[4] and at its peak in 1897, Anchor manufactured 125 buggies, surreys and phaetons a day.[5]
An 1890 advertisement for the Anchor Buggy Company featured the "My Wife and My Mother-in-Law" optical illusion; when viewed one way the image looked like a young woman, when viewed another way the image looked like an old woman.[6]
Anchor Buggy and Carriage Company
[edit]In 1958, Samuel W. Levinson, founder of the Stuart Manufacturing Company– that made children's night lights and toys– retired from his company, and established another one called the Anchor Buggy and Carriage Company.[7]
From 1958 to 1964,[8] the company created exact miniature plastic carriage models based on the carriages and buggies made by the original Anchor Buggy Company. Levinson had acquired permission from Anchor in 1935 to use their name.[9]
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Anchor Buggy, Anchor Top, Anchor & Body Company, Cincinnati, Alfred F. Klausmeyer, Anthony G. Brunsman, Earl M. Galbraith, Oscar A. Brunsman, Auto Tops, California Top". CoachBuilt.com. Archived from the original on 2023-11-29. Retrieved 2024-11-19.
- ^ Kimes, Beverly Rae (1989). Standard catalog of American cars, 1805-1942 (2nd ed.). Iola, Wisconsin: Krause Publications. p. 47. ISBN 978-0-87341-111-0.
- ^ Sneed, David E. (2016-08-31). "Anchor Buggy Company – A Real Giant". Wheels that Won the West. Archived from the original on 2024-03-02. Retrieved 2024-11-19.
- ^ "Buggy: Being Displaced By Auto". The Cincinnati Enquirer. Cincinnati, Ohio. 1909-05-21. p. 5 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ Stuckey, Col. N. D. (August 1967). Downing, Paul H. (ed.). "The Carriage Industry Old Timers". The Carriage Journal. 5 (2). Carriage Assoc. of America: 88.
- ^ "Old Woman and Young Lady Illusion, the original". 30 November 2008. Archived from the original on 5 December 2013. Retrieved 3 December 2014.
- ^ West, Lizabeth (2000). "The Anchor Buggy & Carriage Company". Archived from the original on 2001-08-17.
- ^ West, Lizabeth (April 2001). Cincinnati Magazine. Emmis Communications. p. 15.
- ^ "Anchor Buggy and Carriage Co. - model carriages". www.vintagestuart7.com. 2024-02-01. Retrieved 2024-11-19.
External links
[edit]- Anchor Buggy Co. price list to apply to 1908 catalog at Cincinnati and Hamilton County Public Library
- Anchor Top & Body Co., Cincinnati | COACHBUILD.com – Forum
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