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Detroit reverse gear Advertisement. Owner: Carl Davis from Oronogo, Missouri. Source: Motor Boating magazine April 1913, page 10. ______________________________________________________________________________________
Detroit Standard
Gear Company Articles of Association have been formed by the following: Detroit Standard
Gear Co. Capital stock,
$50,000; $2,000 paid in cash; $100 per share; term, 30 years; dated,
Sept. 7, 1912. Stockholders:
D. M. Ireland, 250 shares; M. E. Smith, 20 shares; L. E. Straw,
10 shares. Source: The Detroiter,
Vol. 2, No. 14, October 1912. p.
36. Employed 36 men
and 1 woman. Factory inspected 9 September.
Goods manufactured: Gears.
Year established: 1913. Source: Michigan
Department of Labor. Thirty-First
Annual Report of the Department of Labor of the State of Michigan. (Lansing, MI: Department
of Labor, 1914.) p. 187. Employed 20 men, 1
woman in 1916. Factory inspected 10 June.
Goods manufactured: Gears.
Year established: 1911. Source: Michigan
Department of Labor. Thirty-Third
Annual Report of the Department of Labor of the State of Michigan. (Lansing, MI: Department
of Labor, 1916.) p. 308. Employed 27 men,
no women, in 1917. Factory
inspected 28 March. Goods
manufactured: machine
repairing. Year Established: 1912. Source: Michigan
Department of Labor. Thirty-Fourth
Annual Report of the Department of Labor of the State of Michigan. (Lansing, MI: Department
of Labor, 1917.) p. 265. Was located at 742
Woodbridge Street, East Detroit, Michigan. Source: Lloyd’s Register
of American Yachts, 1917. p.
485. H. L. Warner,
formerly of Muncie, Indiana, has affiliated himself with Detroit
Standard Gear Company, Detroit, Mich., which is now prepared to furnish
makers of automobiles, motor truck and cyclecars with a complete line of
sliding gear and planetary transmissions, differential gears, bevel
gears, etc. Source: Iron Age, Vol. 92,
December 4, 1913. p. 1315. _____________________________________________________________ Detroit Standard Gear Co. history information donated by Scott M. Peters, Collections Historian Michigan Historical Museum.
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