The Dixie Flyer was an automobile built in Louisville, Kentucky from 1916 until 1923. Dixie Flyers were marketed under the slogan of "The Logical Car." They may be classified as Brass Era cars or vintage cars .
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32-756: A few menagerie -styled machines. Surviving carousels can be seen in North Carolina and the Strong National Museum of Play in Rochester, New York. The last company Herschell created was his own, competing with the Spillman Engineering Company, in 1915. Herschell specialized in horses with rigid poses and portable machines, which enabled them to be packed and shipped easily between towns. Herschell produced over 3,000 carved wooden carousels, which were shipped all over
48-514: A storage area, an upholstery shop, a machine shop, and a roundhouse where the carousels were assembled and tested. Herschell did not create just carousel rides, but expanded to include rides made for children and adults. He thought up the concept for rides specialized for small children, called "Kiddieland". Twister, Hurricane, Flying Bobs, and the Sky Wheel were thrill rides that catered towards adults. The company moved to Buffalo, New York, in
64-504: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Dixie Flyer (automobile) The origins of the company can be traced back to 1878, when the Kentucky Wagon Manufacturing Company was established. In 1912, the local Electric Vehicle Company was acquired, which marked the entrance of Kentucky Wagon into the automotive field. An electric car called
80-697: The Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Company and the Daniels Motor Company . The Herschell–Spillman Motor Company Complex at North Tonawanda was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2013. The company later dropped Herschell's name and was known as the Spillman Engineering Company . The company continued to make the same style of carousels, though later it focused more on horses with
96-607: The North Tonawanda Barrel Organ Factory . The company produced a range of barrel-organ based products, suited for all ranges of fairground attraction. Armitage Herschell remained in operation until the early 1900s. The company carved many portable carousels, made simple in style. Surviving steam riding galleries are located in Mississippi and Maine. In 1901, Herschell left the company due to financial complications, thus allowing de Kliest to buy
112-702: The chassis . The Shadburne Brothers acquired the company for a very brief period in 1917, but ownership quickly reverted to Kentucky Wagon. The Firefly speedster of 1922 was the sportiest Dixie Flyer, unfortunately, it was their last new model as well. The post-World War I recession claimed another victim in the Dixie Car company. Truck production was also discontinued at this time; however, wagons were still produced for almost another decade. Dixie Flyer, National and Jackson , were all merged into Associated Motor Industries and Corporation in 1923. Dixie Flyers and Jacksons were henceforth discontinued. Many of
128-530: The 1950s, and in 1970, it merged with rival amusement park company Chance Manufacturing of Wichita, Kansas . The Herschell Carrousel Factory Museum , at the original factory site on Thompson Street, opened to the general public in July 1983, with a full operational carousel from 1916. The first floor of the factory has been opened up to provide exhibits and demonstrations. Different programs are offered, such as woodcarving of various skill levels, guided tours, and
144-492: The Hercules name, but the Hercules instead formed the nucleus of the new Dixie Flyer in 1916. All cars had four- cylinder engines , originally supplied by Lycoming and later by Herschell-Spillman . Two distinctive features of early Dixie Flyers were their vertical windshields that were integrated into the curved cowl dash, and the spring-mounted radiators . This latter feature was to reduce vibration, as well as strain on
160-903: The Kentucky Electric was planned, but did not come to pass. Erroneously, some lists of old automobiles list the Kentucky Electric from the Kentucky Wagon company in this period. The sole electric automotive product of the company was the Urban Electric truck , produced from 1912 to 1916. In 1914, the Hercules Motor Car Company of New Albany across the Ohio River contracted with Kentucky Wagon to build bodies for their cars. Hercules went out of business in 1915, with its assets acquired by Kentucky Wagon. There appear to have been plans to continue
176-530: The United States and Canada, as well Mexico , South Africa , and India . The factory, bought in 1915, is located on Thompson Street in North Tonawanda. It is one of the last factory complexes in the United States to contain the production of wooden carousels. The complex was expanded to meet the growing company's needs. The building has a large carving shop, a woodworking shop, a paint shop,
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#1732771972660192-568: The band behind American jazz musician Joe Darensbourg "Dixie Flyer", a song composed by Thomas Jefferson Kaye "Dixie Flyer", a song composed by Walter Melrose "Dixie Flyer", a song composed by Randy Newman "Dixie Flyer", a song composed by Jim Photoglo "Dixie Flyer", a song composed by Marty Stuart "Southern Dixie Flyer", a song composed by Marty Robbins Sports [ edit ] Nashville Dixie Flyers , an American minor hockey league team Claude Bracey or The Dixie Flyer, American sprinter Topics referred to by
208-652: The creation of amusement rides , particularly carousels and roller coasters . The company manufactured portable machines that could be used by traveling carnival operators. It was started in 1915 in the town of North Tonawanda , just outside Buffalo, New York , USA. Herschell, with James Armitage, created the Armitage Herschell Company in 1873. In 1883, his son William traveled to London to meet former Limonaire Frères employee Eugene de Kleist . Backed by Armitage Herschell, in 1888, de Kleist set up band-organ production in North Tonawanda, founding
224-465: The last Dixie Flyers were converted to Nationals by simply exchanging the Dixie radiator emblems and hubcaps with National ones. In June 2010 a restored 1922 Dixie Flyer was returned from Melbourne, Australia to Louisville, where it will be displayed at Kentucky Trailer, the successor business to Kentucky Wagon. Herschell-Spillman The Allan Herschell Company was a company that specialized in
240-744: The pair out, and seek new investment from his association with Rudolph Wurlitzer . Herschell created the Herschell Spillman Company with his in-laws, the Spillmans. Herschell Spillman started out creating and carving carousels in a traditional style, but later branching out to create larger park machines, such as elaborate carousels with many types of animals. Surviving carousels can be found in California, Michigan, Maryland, and Portland, Oregon's Herschell–Spillman Noah's Ark Carousel . Herschell–Spillman also constructed engines for
256-418: The same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Dixie Flyer . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dixie_Flyer&oldid=925216269 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
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