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Seager Engine Works
On May 18, 1899, Olds Mtoro Works was incorporated at Detroit, Michigan. This move absorbed both the Olds Motor Vehicle Comapny, a recently organzied venture , along with Olds Gasoline Work at Lansing. While all operations were apparently under the corporation umbrella of Olds Motor Works, the Lansing operation continued to build gas engine under its original name for several years. New capital was needed to back the company, so S.L. and F.L. Smith along with R.E. Olds himself came up with the money. Their new factory on Jefferson Avenue East, Detroit was the first factory built in the United States exclusively for manufacturing automobiles. A fire in 1901 totally destroyed this new factory, and therefore the company returned to Lansing shortly after.
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Olds Gas Power Company seems to have emerged sometime after R.E. Olds left the company, but the new title was just that – virtually no changes were made in the engine line. Perhaps this name change occured as early as 1904 – remaining under this title until about 1910 when it wa renamed Seager Engine Works. Reports of the day tend to indicate that Seager was absorbed by the then powerful Rumely Products Company in 1912, but again, too amny inconsistencies arise to state this as actual fact. Once problem is that after Rumely’s bankruptcy in 1915, seager Engine Works appears to have been operating just as before, recievership set in.
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