Goold Autos – The In Crowd Knows Where They Are

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Carl Johnson

When The Goold Company advertised in The Blue Book in 1917, presumably their clientele knew where they were located, for this ad doesn’t give a clue. In fact, Goold didn’t leave a lot of clues to their existence lying around. It’s likely, given that many automobile companies started this way, that they were part of the family that made carriages and sleighs. By this time they were building and repairing automobile bodies, “putting on the best RUBBER TIRES at very low prices,” and storing furniture and vehicles at low rates.  Somewhere in Albany.

Tomorrow, we may have a clue to their locations. It involves the Albany sleigh.

And you can skip ahead to this entry if you want to know how it all ended.

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2 responses to “Goold Autos – The In Crowd Knows Where They Are”

  1. frankie8166

    From a PDF at the Carriage Museum Library. Tried to make it a hyperlink with no luck. http://carriagemuseumlibrary.org/download/1128/docs/cm_JamesGoold.pdf
    James Goold ~ Coach-Maker’s International Journal January 1868 page 81-82
    Mr. EDITOR.–Being very much interested in the article describing “Carriage Manufactories,” And having worked for Mr. James Goold & Co., for ten years, I take the liberty of sending you a description of these establishments, and hope you will give it a place in the JOURNAL.
    Jas. Goold & Co.’s Carriage Manufactory, Albany.
    The building forms a parallelogram, extending on Union street 185 feet, from Division to Hamilton streets, and running back 90 feet, three stories high. This divided into four equal and distinct buildings by large carriage-ways opening into the three streets on which it abuts. On entering from Union street, we find on the left hand, in the centre of the whole, the office. Leaving this and crossing the paved way to the southwestern building and descending a few steps, we enter an apartment, 87 by 30 feet, in which are contained a very powerful engine, boiler and its furnace, a large and small grindstone, drilling machines, engine lathes for turning axle-arms, &c., and one for rimming our cast-iron boxes. To the rear and north of the boiler is a vault, 20 feet square, for coal; and in front of the vault is another into which all the shavings made in the apartments above are conducted through a tube.

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  2. Carl

    Thanks! There’ll be a little more on Goold and the Albany sleigh in the next entry; I’d come across the same article and have a link to it.

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