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Identifier: historyofworcest03nuttc (find matches)
Title: History of Worcester and its people
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: Nutt, Charles, 1868-1918
Subjects: Worcester (Mass.) -- History Worcester (Mass.) -- Biography
Publisher: New York, Lewis Historical Publishing Company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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found itnecessary to build large additions to his shop, and in igo8 to make another addi-tion. In Nova Scotia, where the fishermen use engines extensively in their dories,he sold a hundred and fifty of his engines. In 1910 he chose a larger field for busi-ness ; removed to Worcester and, disposing of his gas engine business, bought theFranklin Square Garage and engaged on a larger scale in the automobile business.Soon afterward he was obliged to abandon that building, however, on account ofthe municipal fire ordinances. In the same year he made the drawings and speci-fications of drive power and shaft for the Maxwell Motor Car Company until theownership of the concern went to the E. M. F. people in 1913. The same shaft thathe designed is still in universal use. He sold the thirteenth car made by the Max-w-ell Company, and the last Maxwell car made under the Maxwell supervision andsold in New England. In Worcester alone he sold one hundred and thirty-nineMaxwell cars in the year 1912.
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AND ITS PEOPLE 431 He took the agency for the Mitchell automobile in 1915, and secured temporaryquarters at No. 746 Main street, while the building he now occupies at No. 751Main street was under construction, and since 1916 has a model place of businesswith an unexcelled salesroom, finely-equipped machine shop, well-designed and am-ply-equipped wash-rooms and storerooms. In that year he sold a hundred andtwenty Mitchell cars and many Selden motor trucks, for which he is also the Wor-cester agent. The growth of business has within two years obliged him to add alarge store-room and work-shop, which are now being built. For the new andunique business of selling automobiles, repairing them and keeping them in service,many of the most able business men, most skillful meclianics and most gifted sales-men ever developed in any trade or business have been called of volunteered. Mr.Howard, though still a young man, takes rank with veterans in the motor vehiclebusiness and has won fairly a pla

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