Word: buggymen
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There are only 14 buggy-makers left in the U. S. and only three besides Huntingburg are important. J. G. Smith & Sons of Barnesville, Ga. who claim to be the only buggymen below the Mason & Dixon line, do much business in Tennessee, Georgia and Louisiana. Their business is up 50% this year. Houghton Sulky Co. of Marion, Ohio, specializes in horse-show buggies and racing sulkies, do not make ordinary "top" buggies. Unwilling to reveal figures, Houghton last week confirmed the current boom. Biggest exclusive buggy-maker is Standard Vehicle Co. of Lawrenceburg, Ind. Almost ruined by the recent Ohio...
...good rubber-tired buggy with fancy paint costs $125. Buggymen sell to foreign government officials, who usually like them gaudy; to places like Bermuda and Mackinac where automobiles are prohibited; and to parts of the U. S. where roads are bad and people poor. Standard's president E. J. Knapp likes to tell of a sale in the South where a three-year-old Ford brought $12, a 30-year-old buggy...
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