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Thomas B. Jeffery
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Thomas B. Jeffery, founder of the Thomas B. Jeffery Company of Kenosha in 1902. Before that Jeffery produced several experimental automobiles, including this one which he built in Chicago in 1897. His company later became the Nash Motors Company after its purchase by Charles Nash.
1897
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Jeffery Car
1915
A 1915 Jeffery, with a special body made by the W.S. Seaman Company parked in front of the company's Milwaukee plant. The Seaman company manufactured bodies for a number of early manufacturers of ...
Charles W. Nash
1937
Charles W. Nash, president of Buick, (1910-1912), head of General Motors (1912-1916) and founder of Nash Motors of Kenosha, Wisconsin, (1916-1936), a man sometimes referred to as the "great indepen...
Wisconsin's First Coupe
1905
Automobile alleged to be the first coupe built in Wisconsin. The vehicle was built by Gus Wilkie of Sheboygan from the body of a carriage and the chassis from a one-cylinder Thomas B. Jeffery Co., ...
Testing a Rambler Model B, 1901
1901
Employees of the Thomas B. Jeffery Co. test drive a Rambler Model B in Kenosha, Wisconsin. With a driver and a passenger occupying its two seats, the automobile tows a wooden wagon carrying three p...
McCormick Experimental Thresher/Shredder
July 22, 1908
Experimental McCormick "improved 8-roll thresher/shredder" in a factory yard, most likely at International Harvester's McCormick Works.
Experimental Model Steam Car
July 2, 1946
Experimental model steam car, taken from right side, for the Keen Manufacturing Company, 2661 East Washington Avenue.
