The only known Gaylord Car to exist is on display at the Gaylord Visor Center.Addnal rmatn about the Gaylord Motor Car Corporatn n be found at the Otsego County History Mm which is loted across the street om the Visor ia for a r pany Gaylord me the sprg months of 1910. At the time Gaylord had been a cy for ltle more than 35 years and was both a center between loggg mps and a stop on the Michigan Central Railway. A. B. C. Comstock who was a lol bsman and banker knew that the loggg boom was g to and end and there need to be staable new dtry gog forward. Detro machist Guy Haton had e to Gaylord on a fishg trip and shortly after he had gotten off the tra, he and Comstock met over a cup of ffee a fe perhaps by fate. The two men discsed the possibily of brgg a tomobile factory to Gaylord that would go on to sell not only tomobil but also a "utily" type vehicle aimed at farmg needs and the abily to navigate the rough terra Northern Michigan. Haton had already been workg wh tomobil sce at least 1903 and was nsired a very pable man to sign a r. The two men agreed to pursue the ia and assembled other lol bsmen to form a mtee. The ia was well received and soon after the Gaylord Motor Car Company was born. About 350 total vehicl were built durg the existence of the pany but they ultimately went out of bs 1913 bee of a variety of reasons cludg the credibly low price of the Mol T.
Contents:
- HISTORY MATTERS: GAYLORD MOTOR CAR COMPANY STARTED 110 YEARS AGO
- GAYLORD GLADIATOR: THE BTERSWEET TALE OF ‘THE WORLD’S BT CAR’
- GAYLORD CAR
- AUTO MANUFACTURG USED TO THRIVE IN GAYLORD, TRAVERSE CY, AND AROUND THE NORTH
- GAYLORD CAR
HISTORY MATTERS: GAYLORD MOTOR CAR COMPANY STARTED 110 YEARS AGO
If thgs had worked out differently for the Gaylord brothers, the 1950s would have seen the birth of the ft r the world had ever seen * gaylord car company *
One hundred ten years ago, a group of people Otsego County, Michigan, pooled their money to create the Gaylord Motor Car Company (GMC) lumberg dtry was drawg to a close and the lol enomic future was lookg bleak.
) The funds would be enough to build a factory and purchase to parts so that a few rs uld be assembly plant was built 1910 on 6 acr of vant land the southern part of the village of Gaylord near the Bagley Township Cemetery. Durg May and June 1910, the headl of the Otsego County Herald and Tim (now named Gaylord Herald Tim) touted all the excg news. The Gaylord Car was featured at the New York Automobile Show 1911.
GAYLORD GLADIATOR: THE BTERSWEET TALE OF ‘THE WORLD’S BT CAR’
This feature was pecially appropriate for fort cut over lands Northern Gaylord Motor Car Company experienced typil growg pas of a new bs. The price of the Gaylord Car was $1, 250 which was double what Ford was three years of productn, the Gaylord Car Company went bankpt 1913.
GAYLORD CAR
Lewis “have bought out the stock of the Gaylord Motor Car Company.
AUTO MANUFACTURG USED TO THRIVE IN GAYLORD, TRAVERSE CY, AND AROUND THE NORTH
” We n assume stock refers to ventory and not shar the rporatn sce the two men owned the Gaylord Auto Repair one Gaylord Car is known to exist and is on display at the Gaylord Area Chamber of Commerce’s Visor Center.
GAYLORD CAR
The 1911 mol of the Gaylord 30 was disvered the 1960s by Elmira native Ivan Pol.
Dpe s short-lived existence, the Gaylord Car was and ntu to be an important part of our lol history.
So even though the pany failed fancially, still succeed creatg muny more rmatn about the history of the Gaylord Motor Car Company, check out the new webse addn to photos, documents and tra journal advertisements, this onle rource featur a recently acquired 20-page sal booklet. The Gaylord Gladiator me wh a whisker of beg the world’s bt r. Here’s the story of the Amerin Rolls-Royce-beater that fell at the fal post-War Ameri got back to normal, brothers Jam and Edward (Jim and Ed) Gaylord were searchg for a way to create a legacy to outlast that of their mega-rich father, who vented the bobby p – those ridiculoly tratg metal hair clips that turn up lerally everywhere.