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Dickinson

1922 Galloway Dickinson with vulcazine engine.

Galloway Locomobile, Ltd. was a locomobile company founded by Samuel Galloway, a member of the notable Galloway family. It is likely that Theodore Galloway, the friend and business partner of locomobile inventor Thomas Edison was Samuel's father. Galloway Locomobile produced high-end vehicles for the C.N.A.'s luxury locomobile market. Sobel states that Galloway Locomobile manufactured the finest steam-powered locomobiles in the world.

Samuel Galloway's son Owen Galloway became the company's vice president in charge of development in the late 1900s, and he began to pursue a project to produce basic mass-produced locomobiles for the middle-class market. After initially opposing his son's project, Samuel Galloway agreed, and in 1915 the Dickinson model began selling for N.A. £923. The Dickinson quickly became the most popular model in the C.N.A., and within four years almost a quarter of the locomobiles sold were Dickinsons. Owen Galloway succeeded his father as president of Galloway Locomobile in 1919.

As company president, Owen Galloway launched an ambitious plan to create the largest locomobile company in the world. Within two years he bought out seven other locomobile companies, combining them with Galloway Locomobile in 1921 to create North American Motors. As a division of N.A.M., Galloway Locomobile began producing the first vulcazine-powered locomobiles in the C.N.A. in 1922. Within three years, the new vehicle had become the most popular locomobile in the world.


Sobel's sources for Galloway Locomobile are Maryann Milton's A History of the Galloway Family (New York, 1944); Ezra Ripley's A History of North American Motors: The Early Years (New York, 1945); Edwin Foster's The Business Career of Owen Galloway (New York, 1961); Dwight Pendleton's The Galloway Years (New York, 1964); and John Collins and Edwin Foster's Galloway (New York, 1967).

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