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
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
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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. 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. Lewis “have bought out the stock of the Gaylord Motor Car Company. ” 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 GLADIATOR: THE BTERSWEET TALE OF ‘THE WORLD’S BT 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.
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The brothers Gaylord wanted to be the power and style of the Amerin way wh the handlg and class om Europe.
Gaylord, which was never officially registered as a r-buildg enty separate om the bobby p bs, need to sell jt 25 per year to make the project perhaps the most obv nversatn-starter was the body stylg. Jim and Ed Gaylord wanted the shell to rell both the ntemporary Amerin trends, as shown the tail fs and the ntrastg si panels flung out rearwards om the ont wheels, and the pre-War Brish and German ins, terpreted wh a neo-classic twist one of the most strikg ont ends ever signed.
Havg chosen the German pany Luftschiffb Zeppel, former makers of the hydrogen-filled airships, to build the productn-spec Gladiator, the Gaylord brothers, already strsed to breakg pot by the procs of tryg to realise their dream r, were not happy wh the work done by the German factory. We’ll never que know what might have been if the relatnship between Jim and Ed Gaylord and Zeppel hadn’t gone south. Maybe, jt maybe, we’d be talkg about ultra-luxury triple-tts between a Rolls-Royce, a Maybach and a Gaylord.
AUTO MANUFACTURG USED TO THRIVE IN GAYLORD, TRAVERSE CY, AND AROUND THE NORTH
319 W MaGaylord, MI 49735.
GAYLORD CAR
Be sure not to miss the Gaylord Car loted our Gaylord Informatn Center 319 W Ma St, Gaylord.
The Gaylord Motor Company (GMC) was started 1910. The r was first assembled Detro and returned to Gaylord.
It was lled the Gaylord Mol 30. The Gaylord Motor Car CompanyThe lnch of the Gaylord Motor Car Company was proudly troduced the Otsego County Herald and Tim May 1910. Ironilly, however, the first Gaylord Utily Car was built away om Otsego County Detro.