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ownesboro wagon company bank draft For Sale
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ownesboro wagon company bank draft:
$28.88
High Value bank draft from Owensboro Wagon company from 1910. The draft is for the sale of a wagon that sold for $1312.83 in 1910.The Owensboro Wagon Company was a significant player in the wagon manufacturing industry. Here’s some information about the company:
Founding: The company’s origins date back to the 1860s with a blacksmith shop in eastern Owensboro owned by James P. Troutman and Peter Rarick. The Owensboro Wagon Company was formally established in 1883.Location: The company was located on the east side of Leitchfield Road, north of East Forth Street in Owensboro.Products: The company was known for producing up to one hundred wagons per day. These wagons, simply labeled “The Owensboro,” were considered the “Rolls-Royce of farm wagons” and were sold in 22 states as well as in Cuba, Mexico, and South America. A top-of-the-line “Owensboro” wagon sold for $826 at the turn of the century.Employees: The company employed between 100-125 people in its early years, and this number grew to 350 men and 14 traveling salesmen by 1910. The workers were among the best paid in Owensboro, earning $1.37 for half a day’s work in the 1890s.Production: During its peak in 1910, the company was producing 30,000 wagons and 10,000 buggies a year.Later Years: By the 1940s, the company had converted to manufacturing trailers for trucks. By the time it closed in 1951, the plant was making “coolie carts” for China.Legacy: Over nearly 70 years of production, somewhere in the neighborhood of 1 million “Owensboro” wagons rolled off the line.
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