Route 66 Rambler

Rambler Milestones for April

APRIL 1, 1970:

GREMLIN!!!

On April 2, 1910, at midnight, Rambler founder Thomas B. Jeffery died of a heart attack, at the age of 65, while vacationing in Pompeii, Italy.

Tommy B’s sons, Charles T. and Harold Jeffery, took Thomas B. Jeffery & Company public, renaming the operation The Thomas B. Jeffery Company.

Here is a look at a stock certificate from 1910 for the Thomas B. Jeffery Co.

NOTE:
This certificate was found on a site which sells to collectors of cancelled stocks and bonds, and their provenance mentions, incorrectly, that Thomas B. Jeffery was a wagon maker. This is a common mistake on the Internet for some reason.

The Mitchell-Lewis Motor Co. WAS a wagon builder before turning to automobiles, and like the Jeffery Company, was purchased by Nash. And, Charles W. Nash himself worked with a wagon maker that eventually became part of the Crapo Durant empire now known as General Motors.

Perhaps this, in some sick and twisted way, is the origin of these vicious lies…

In all fairness, I have contacted the site, and they have assured me of their intent to correct the information.
Thank you, very much, SCRIPOPHILY.NET.

NOTE:
It has now been well over a year since the sentence above was written, and the site mentioned above has done nothing at all to change the information.

ONE WORD.  All the difference between a wagon and a bicycle.  Truth or fable.

-mike