Are you stumped on what to get that local historian in your family?
The Defiance County Genealogical Society may have the perfect gift!
On sale now is a reprint of a salesman's catalog for Turnbull Wagons which were built in Defiance, Ohio..
The catalog is full of color plates of different wagon types and tables for dimensions of the various products.
This book would have been in the salesman's kit as he traveled to sell the wagons.
These books are unique and limited in number.
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| One of the color plates |
The price has been reduced to $15.00
To order, send check and order (including your address) to:
Defiance County Genealogical Society
PO Box 7006
Defiance, OH 43512
(Postage and tax already included.)
(Original price $21.50)
For many years, Lloyd V. Tuttle contributed historic photos and information to the Defiance Crescent-News for his column: "A Backward Glance." The topic for Tuesday, August 27, 1963, was the Turnbull Wagon Works, a very successful early business in Defiance.
"THIS IS a picture of some of the employees of the old Turnbull Wagon Works, taken about 50 years ago. Perhaps old timers will recognize some of the faces.
At one time, the Turnbull Wagon Company employed about 400 workers. Native timber was used in the manufacture of wagons. Later, with the advent of the horseless carriage, the company produced wooden spoke automobile wheels.
When the native timber was depleted, the company bought a large tract of timber in Arkansas. However, it turned out to be an inferior timber, far below standards for wagons and wheels with the wood, water soaked and impossible to kiln dry properly.
The plant was located in East Defiance at the foot of Seneca St., and stretched along the south bank of the Maumee River. The plant had a complex of 24 buildings, two of them still in use.
The large brick building is used by the Compo Corp. for storage and another brick building is part of the Defiance Metal Products."
