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Fitzgibbon & Crisp Carriage & Wagon Co. - 1850-1913 - Fitzgibbon & Crisp Inc. - 1913-1940 - Trenton, New Jersey |
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| Makers of horse-drawn carriages since the 1890s, Fitzgibbon & Crisp made
a number of car bodies, primarily on Mercer and Crane Simplex chassis. built bodies 1908-1934. Fitzgibbon & Crisp built funeral vehicles as well as commercial can bodies. In 1919 they built a funeral omnibus on a Pierce-Arrow truck chassis. Designed to eliminate the funeral procession from urban traffic, it could carry a driver, casket and 19 mourners and pallbearers. xxxxxx Another landmark in Trenton business, which now has a reputation that extends all over the United States and even to foreign lands, is the Fitzgibbon & Crisp Company, makers of automobile bodies. This business was started more than eighty years ago in a modest shop equipped for the building of wagons and carriages. As time went on two of the younger workmen took over the enterprise and it became Fitzgibbon & Crisp Company which for many years afterward turned out some of the finest equipages in the country, having a trade that catered especially to the users of private carriages in fashionable New York. Later the concern was incorporated under the leadership of the late L. L. Woodward who developed the making of automobile bodies and brought the trade up to a point where it received recognition in Europe as well as all parts of America. xxxxxx Early small scale industries concentrated south of Five Points including a pottery to the rear of Lamb’s Tavern, a tannery above Bank Street and a stone mill in “Honey Hollow” (east of North Willow Street by the Belvidere Division railroad). This mill was known as the “Coffee House” and was utilized for grinding spice and roasting coffee. A millpond on Petit’s Run supplied a conduit which turned a paddle wheel which, in turn, powered the mill. Later, however, horse power was utilized with a “sweep,” which proved an irresistible temptation to neighborhood boys for taking a ride. 6 However, as late as 1850, the Five Points area was surrounded to the north and to the west by open farm country and meandering livestock. Among the later industries was The Fitzgibbons and Crisp Union Carriage Works (#77) established on Bank Street in 1868. The firm, housed in three and four story brick structures, was for many years a large producer of carriages, horse drawn trolley cars, and finally truck and automobiles bodies. The company, which exhibited at the Centennial Exhibition, was described as “one of the most complete” manufacturers of its kind in the country, ranking with the “great wagon manufacturers of the Northwest.” xxxxx Fitzgibbon & Crisp Company – Trenton, NJ Another landmark in Trenton business, which now has a reputation that extends all over the United States and even to foreign lands, is the Fitzgibbon & Crisp Company, makers of automobile bodies. This business was started more than eighty years ago in a modest shop equipped for the building of wagons and carriages. As time went on two of the younger workmen took over the enterprise and it became Fitzgibbon & Crisp Company which for many years afterward turned out some of the finest equipages in the country, having a trade that catered especially to the users of private carriages in fashionable New York. Later the concern was incorporated under the leadership of the late L. L. Woodward who developed the making of automobile bodies and brought the trade up to a point where it received recognition in Europe as well as all parts of America. Later on Fitzgibbon turned to building bodies for commercial vehicles. 1920 Trenton city directory listing follows: FITZGIBBON & CRISP INC, automobile body mfrs and repair dept, Calhoun and Dunham, L L Woodward pres, L H Rockhill treas, S Simon sec. Fitz Gibbon & Crisp Co. (All Weather Conditioning Co., Trenton, NJ). Another landmark in Trenton business, which now has a reputation that extends all over the United States and even to foreign lands, is the Fitzgibbon & Crisp Company, makers of automobile bodies. This business was started more than eighty years ago in a modest shop equipped for the building of wagons and carriages. As time went on two of the younger workmen took over the enterprise and it became Fitzgibbon & Crisp Company which for many years afterward turned out some of the finest equipages in the country, having a trade that catered especially to the users of private carriages in fashionable New York. Later the concern was incorporated under the leadership of the late L. L. Woodward who developed the making of automobile bodies and brought the trade up to a point where it received recognition in Europe as well as all parts of America. FITZGIBBON - Fitzgibbon & Crisp was a $100,000 venture for the manufacture of automobiles emanating from Trenton, New Jersey, early in 1913. The identity of Fitzgibbon and Crisp was not revealed; L.L. Woodward was the indicated incorporator of this idea to build automobiles, which seems to have gone nowhere.. The firm did go places, however, as the builders of automotive bodies for Mercer & Crane-Simplex - and as a truck body builder. Mid-1930's trade publications featured photographs of Fitzgibbon & Crisp streamlined integrated semi-trailer designs. xxxxxx Fitzgibbon & Crisp was a $100,000 venture for the manufacture of automobiles eminating from Trenton, New Jersey, early in 1913. The firm did go places as a truck body builder and in the mid 1930s they built some beautiful streamlined integrated semi-trailer designs. Built fire engines 1917 Built a Hand test car in 1934 for the Speery Rail Service, a small self propelled vehicle used for inspection and
verification of track defects 1920 phone directory FITZGIBBON & CRISP INC, automobile body mfrs and repair dept, Calhoun and Dunham, L L Woodward pres, L H Rockhill treas, S Simon sec 1900 phone directory FITZGIBBON & CRISP CARRIAGE AND WAGON CO; THE, (Patrick J Fitzgibbon), 36 Bank Fitzgibbon Harry J, wagon builder, h 141 Philemon FITZGIBBON PATRICK J, (Fitzgibbon & Crisp Co), h 344 Bellevue av Another landmark in Trenton business, which now has a reputation that extends all over the United States and even to foreign lands, is the Fitzgibbon & Crisp Company, makers of automobile bodies. This business was started more than eighty years ago in a modest shop equipped for the building of wagons and carriages. As time went on two of the younger workmen took over the enterprise and it became Fitzgibbon & Crisp Company which for many years afterward turned out some of the finest equipages in the country, having a trade that catered especially to the users of private carriages in fashionable New York. Later the concern was incorporated under the leadership of the late L. L. Woodward who developed the making of automobile bodies and brought the trade up to a point where it received recognition in Europe as well as all parts of America.
from "History of Trenton" published 1929 formerly UNION CARRIAGE FACTORY? Fitzgibbon & Crisp: 1917 Jeffrey Motorized Chemical Engine The one-and-a-half ton Jeffrey chassis was provided by the C.P. Weedon Motor Co. of Trenton, and the body was built by the Fitzgibbon and Crisp Co. of Trenton. Painted white and bearing the name "Lawrence Volunteer Fire Ass¹n" on its side, it cost approximately $2,800, and was delivered to the fire company on May 26, 1917. The apparatus carried two 40-gallon chemical tanks, ladders, hooks, axes, hand extinguishers, lanterns and other equipment and had the capability of transporting up to 18 men. xxxxx Makers of horse-drawn carriages since the 1890s, Fitzgibbon & Crisp made a number of car bodies, primarily on Mercer and Crane Simplex chassis. built bodies 1908-1934. Fitzgibbon & Crisp built funeral vehicles as well as commercial can bodies. In 1919 they built a funeral omnibus on a Pierce-Arrow truck chassis. Designed to eliminate the funeral procession from urban traffic, it could carry a driver, casket and 19 mourners and pallbearers. xxxxxx Fitzgibbon & Crisp Carriage and Auto Body Co made horse-drawn vehicles starting in the 1890s?. They made a number of car bodies, working particularly on Crane-Simplex and Mercer chassis. xxxxx During the first meeting of 1917, held on Monday, January 8, Edward Whitehead, chairman of the Apparatus committee, reported “American LaFrance Co. of Elmira, N.Y., had promised shipment of the tanks and other equipment and Fitzgibbon and Crisp were progressing with their part of the work, June 10, 1917
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| For more information please read: The Professional Car (Quarterly Journal of the Professional car Society) Gregg D. Merksamer - Professional Cars: Ambulances, Funeral Cars and Flower Cars Thomas A. McPherson - American Funeral Cars & Ambulances Since 1900 Carriage Museum of America - Horse-Drawn Funeral Vehicles: 19th Century Funerals Carriage Museum of America - Horse Drawn - Military, Civilian, Veterinary - Ambulances Gunter-Michael Koch - Bestattungswagen im Wandel der Zeit Walt McCall & Tom McPherson - Classic American Ambulances 1900-1979: Photo Archive Walt McCall & Tom McPherson - Classic American Funeral Vehicles 1900-1980 Photo Archive Walter M. P. McCall - The American Ambulance 1900-2002 Walter M.P. McCall - American Funeral Vehicles 1883-2003 Michael L. Bromley & Tom Mazza - Stretching It: The Story of the Limousine Richard J. Conjalka - Classic American Limousines: 1955 Through 2000 Photo Archive Richard J. Conjalka - Stretch Limousines 1928-2001 Photo Archive Thomas A. McPherson - Eureka: The Eureka Company: a complete history Thomas A. McPherson - Superior: The complete history Thomas A. McPherson - Flxible: The Complete History Thomas A. McPherson - Miller-Meteor: The Complete History Robert R. Ebert - Flxible: A History of the Bus and the Company Hearses - Automobile Quarterly Vol 36 No 3 Beverly Rae Kimes - The Classic Car Beverly Rae Kimes - The Classic Era Beverly Rae Kimes - Packard: A History of the Motorcar and Company Beverly Rae Kimes & Henry Austin Clark Jr. - Standard Catalog of American Cars 1805-1942 Richard Burns Carson - The Olympian Cars Raymond A. Katzell - The Splendid Stutz Brooks T. Brierley - There Is No Mistaking a Pierce Arrow Brooks T. Brierley - Magic Motors 1930 Nick Georgano - The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile: Coachbuilding John Gunnell - Standard Catalog of American Cars, 1946-1975 James M. Flammang & Ron Kowalke - Standard Catalog of American Cars, 1976-1999 Daniel D. Hutchins - Wheels Across America: Carriage Art & Craftsmanship Marian Suman-Hreblay - Dictionary of World Coachbuilders and Car Stylists Michael Lamm and Dave Holls - A Century of Automotive Style: 100 Years of American Car Design Thomas E. Bonsall - The Lincoln Motorcar: Sixty Years of Excellence Fred Roe - Duesenberg: The Pursuit of Perfection Arthur W. Soutter - The American Rolls-Royce John Webb De Campi - Rolls-Royce in America Hugo Pfau - The Custom Body Era Hugo Pfau - The Coachbult Packard Griffith Borgeson - Cord: His Empire His Motor Cars Don Butler - Auburn Cord Duesenberg George H. Dammann - 90 Years of Ford George H. Dammann & James K. Wagner - The Cars of Lincoln-Mercury Thomas A. MacPherson - The Dodge Story F. Donald Butler - Plymouth-Desoto Story Fred Crismon - International Trucks George H. Dammann - Seventy Years of Chrysler Walter M.P. McCall - 80 Years of Cadillac LaSalle Maurice D. Hendry - Cadillac, Standard of the World: The complete seventy-year history George H. Dammann & James A. Wren - Packard Dennis Casteele - The Cars of Oldsmobile Terry B. Dunham & Lawrence R. Gustin - Buick: A Complete History George H. Dammann - Seventy Years of Buick |
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