ca. 1800's - Gendron Velocipede & Tricycle - Authentic Antique Advertising Trade Card
"A. Winter, Harnesses, Trunks, Baby Cabs, &c., Sherbrooke, Q..." Quebec, Canada." - Canadian Dealer.
"... makes the Children Healthy and Happy ... easist running, neatest and most durable... etc.
Approx. 3 x 5 inches - Displays GREAT, but with faint a diagonal crease / minor age issues. Please study scans.
GENDRON: Gendron Goods Rubber Tire Wheels (from Wikipedia)
"The Gendron Iron Wheel Company was founded in 1872 in Toledo, Ohio by Peter Gendron.
Gendron produced wire wheels for baby carriages originally.
In 1890, bicycles, tricycles, invalid chairs, baby carriages, doll carriages, coaster wagons, toy wheelbarrows, etc.
children's diecast toy replica pedal cars up until World War II.
In 1927, Gendron became a subsidiary of American National, formed as a holding company for three companies:
Toledo Metal Wheel, National Wheel, and American Wheel. American-National, Toledo, and
Gendron products were sold under the trade names of Pioneer, Skippy, Express, Reliance,Hi-Speed, Hi-Way,
Speed King, Blue Streak, Sampson, American, Streamline, etc.
In 1941, the assets and all rights to the product line were purchased by a group of Toledo industrialists.
The new company was incorporated as the Gendron Wheel Company, Perrysburg, Ohio.
The company was organized "to manufacture, import, export, buy, sell, and in general deal in
wheelchairs, playground equipment, and other juvenile conveniences of every kind".
Due to the war effort, Gendron concentrated its efforts on wheelchairs and hospital stretchers.
However, they continued to manufacture wooden wagons and playground equipment.
Catalogs from the 1950s and early 1960s show playground equipment and hand car racers with the trade name
Howdy Doody. In 1959, Gendron Wheel moved most of its manufacturing to Archbold, Ohio. The Perrysburg
plant was closed in 1963.In 1964, the company became a subsidiary of Howmedica.
Today, Gendron, Inc. produces mobile patient management
systems for transport, trauma treatment, imaging, bariatric,and special procedures."
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Condition: - Displays with evidence of aging, flaws and wear, as seen in HUGE scans far above.
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