Detroit Engine Works  Detroit, Michigan.
 
Detroit Gear Co. & Detroit Standard Gear Co.

   



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Detroit Gear Company

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Owner:  Carl Davis from Oronogo, Missouri.



Source:  Motor Boating magazine April 1913, page 10.

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Owner: Richard Alcock from Roscoe Illinois.





Detroit Standard Gear Company Formed in 1912

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.


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Detroit Standard Gear Co. history information donated by

Scott M. Peters, Collections Historian Michigan Historical Museum.


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