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Samuel Galloway

Samuel Galloway.

Samuel Galloway was a member of the notable Galloway family, descendants of the Pennsylvania Loyalist Joseph Galloway. Samuel Galloway was a pioneer in the locomobile industry, and it is likely that he was closely related to Theodore Galloway, a close friend and business partner of the inventor of the locomobile, Thomas Edison.

The company Galloway founded, Galloway Locomobile, Ltd., manufactured high-end steam locomobiles for the C.N.A.'s luxury market. Galloway's son Owen Galloway joined the company in 1905 after graduating from Oxford University, and soon became vice president in charge of development. In the face of opposition from the elder Galloway, Owen began pursuing plans to manufacture basic low-cost vehicles. Samuel Galloway eventually agreed, and in 1915 the first Dickinson models were produced for sale at a cost of N.A. £923. The Dickinson quickly became the most popular model of locomobile in North America, with sales of 397,354 vehicles in 1919. That same year, Samuel Galloway resigned as company president in favor of his son.

Samuel Galloway does not have an entry in Sobel's index


Sobel's sources for Samuel Galloway's business career are Maryann Milton's A History of the Galloway Family (New York, 1944); and John Collins and Edwin Foster's Galloway (New York, 1967).

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