Lindsey Wagon Company

[From] The Laurel Chronicle

Magazine Edition [date unknown]

Loranger Old Farmer's Day 2004

8 Wheel Log Wagon Index

Chronicle Story about the Lindsey Wagon

Belize Mahogany Loggers

Eyles Letter of 1936

Eyles Order of 1936

Request for Quote by Grimes

Financial Information

Instructions for Hub Caps on Wagons

Wagon Company Payroll - 1910

W.H. Burton Hours and Tasks -- May 1913

Payroll 1914

Wagon Company Payroll - 1932

Wagon Company Salaries

Wagons Shipped April 1922

Wagons Shipped October 1922

Wagons Shipped 1929

Rise and Fall

Lindsey Wagon History

Graysonia Memories

Wagon Pictures

Busy Body and Shays

Lindsey Wagon Co. 1940 Brochure

Wagon/Skidder Testimonials Index

Lindsey Wagon - 1964

Loading a Log Wagon

Loading a Skidder

Wagon Patent Info

Lindsey Lumber Company

San Augustine Lbr. Co. & Lindsey Wagon

Logging Index

The inventive genius of American is proverbial.  To them the world owes much, for by their efforts manufacture is stimulated and life itself made more worth living.  Under our patent laws the inventor is justly protected in the enjoyment of the revenues derived from the product of his brain, and the owners of a patent have action at law for money damages in all cases of infringement.

It was not, however, with any expectancy of ultimately engaging in its manufacture that John Lindsey invented the now justly-celebrated Lindsey log wagon.  From childhood he had possessed a "knack" of making things.  As a boy of five his jack-knife was ever called into requisition to form broad-axes and plow-shares for his games of play.  This trait became of use as he grew older, and when in the saw mill business, 1987, on discovering that his log wagons were not what he wanted, he immediately set to work to make one that would answer his purpose.
 

A crude affair compared with the wagons now turned out by the Lindsey Wagon Co., this first effort possessed the basic principles and satisfactorily did the work needed.  It was not until January 3, 1899, that he secured a patent, and even then no one had an adequate idea of its value.

S.W. Lindsey, however, decided to begin their manufacture, and commenced in Sandersville shortly after the patent was granted.  He had little equipment and turned out about one wagon a month.  In April, 1899, the demand seeming to justify the move, Mr. Lindsey invested $2,500 in the business, securing a much better equipment, so that the shop's capacity was twenty-five wagons a month.  Its output was gradually reaching that number, the demand meanwhile growing with even greater rapidity, when in July, 1899, J. E. Parker became interested in the business.  The firm of S. W. Lindsey & Co. was then formed with a capital of $10,000 and from that date till February, 1901, the output was about twenty-five wagons a month.  Meanwhile the manufacture of Lindsey skidders, another invention of John Lindsey, had been essayed and about fifteen a month were being turned out.  The patent on these skidder was secured September 18, 1900.

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