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  • '''Thompsonville’s Boat Building Giant''' For three short years starting in 1960 Thompsonville was home to a major boat manufacturing company. In April of that year the Bigelow Sanford Carpet Co.
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  • ...some of the manufacturers of the period is that... they only designed one boat. This is the case of CarAqua. As you might imagine, there isn't too much history behind a boat that ultimately was designed after a car but there's still some interesting
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  • Barger Boat Company ...brother Merle was sales manager and traveled to drum up sales and sign new dealers. Formerly, Hilman had owned the Custom Molded Fiberglass Products Company i
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  • ...ke at the bow and more flair on the sides. After testing this aluminum Jon boat, they realized it was much easier to paddle -- and, more responsive with a ...ent; and, Larry Nixon won his first BASS Angler Tournament in a Ward built boat.
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  • ...on of 200 new dealers in the past three months, bringing the total to 1400 dealers (Los Angeles Times, March 1, 1959). File:Glassparbb001.jpg|1955 to 1959 Glasspar outboard boat models
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  • Harvey Boat Works, Inc. ...orts Harvey's dealership network increased from 39 in 1959 to more than 60 dealers for 1960.
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  • ...as Ed Bishop who was partner with R. W. McDonnell in [[Lone Star|Lone Star Boat Manufacturing Company]]. I had done a couple of engineering tasks for Lone ..., the company's most popular 14' aluminum boat. After seeing the completed boat McDonnell and Bishop offered me a position with the company. I became Chief
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  • Larson Boat Works/A Short History ...a double-ended boat for his own use. Others around Little Falls saw this boat and wanted one just like it. It was 1913 and Paul Larson started to build
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  • ...and [[Owens]]. Hardware was also available in kit form for home-builders, dealers, and purchasers of factory unfitted boats. Besides deck hardware, Vollrath [[Category: Boat Steering]]
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  • So many companies got their start just after the end of WWII and Lone Star Boat Manufacturing is one of them. Founded in Grand Prairie, Texas The first boat trailers were developed.
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  • ...n a principal in the family-owned Owens Yacht Co., the legendary Annapolis boat builder, and later established a real estate firm, died Saturday of heart f He established a custom boat-building business in 1925 on Spa Creek that built about 20 boats a year, an
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  • Power Cat Boat Corp. of Bellflower, California originally started building a boat yard in San Pedro that made PT and PBY boats for the military. This
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  • ...sk Bob just what was the relationship between [[Glastron]] and the Redfish Boat Company. I mean, there was more than just a passing resemblance. No sooner ...y Redfish file was a single page flyer of the 1963 Regal 17 by the Redfish Boat Company/Iola Molded Plastics, Inc. of Iola, Kansas. This was an interesting
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  • ...her, Harold Brownlow, in Eldorado, Oklahoma – an unlikely location for a boat building company. I was peripherally involved in the company from inceptio ...g boats. Harold progressed from building small racing boats to building a boat for the family to enjoy.
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  • ---ABOUT THE BOAT BUSINESS From the Office of [[Richard C. Cole|RICHARD C. COLE]] -1 ...called a "[[Barker-Todd]]". The molding etc. was quite successful but the boat was of such doubtful design that Woody didn't even try to sell any of them.
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  • ...at the Boat Show in McCormick Place and they did lot's of advertising for dealers nationwide. Her father owned 10% of the company for a few years.
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  • .... At this time, Mercury outboards were distributed through more than 3,500 dealers worldwide with operations in Fond du Lac, Cedarburg, Oshkosh, and Beaver Da ...ulletins by year and number is available at the main [[Boat House Bulletin|Boat House Bulletin page]].
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  • ...to produce "Firestone" branded outboard motors for sale through Firestone dealers. Scott-Atwater brand outboard motors were sold through a separate dealer ne For the 1956 boat show circuit, Scott-Atwater commissioned Charles Clarke to design a series
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  • ...ell, and outlast any fiberglass vessel. The Thompsons of Thompson Brothers Boat Manufacturing Company of Peshtigo, Wisconsin and Cruisers, Inc. of Oconto, ...by [[Pla-Boye|Pla-Tank, Inc.]] of Springfield, Massachusetts. The “Play-Boat” series included three models, all with mahogany wooden decks. The use of
    20 KB (2,939 words) - 18:52, 10 May 2021
  • ...ient pine with lower sap content than the typical American Pine, ideal for boat construction. ...first boat to arrive in the U.S. was a well-made, hand-crafted, sea-worthy boat that lacked the American styling and was only designed for outboard motors
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