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Day Manufacturing Co. Lake View, NY

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so any clue as to when Queen City Cycle actually was in business?

@Blue Streak
Queen City Cycle Company was in business from 1892-1896.

Queen City Cycle Company history begins when a jeweler named J. H. Isham (1831-1897) moved from Titusville PA to Buffalo NY in 1882. From 1882-1891 he operated both a jewelry, clock, watch store and a bicycle dealership. He closed the jewelry store in 1891 to focus only on bicycles.

February 1892 Isham and G. Frank Fries form Queen City Cycle Company selling Columbia, Cleveland, Rambler, Waverley, Gendron and other makes.
1893 begin manufacturing the Erie Bicycle.
August 1895 move business from Buffalo to Lake View NY.
January 1896 Queen City Cycle Company is incorporated by Fries and Isham and their wives.
July 1896 begin to have financial issues.
October 1896 voluntary dissolution of the company.
1897 J N Adam & Company Department Store of Buffalo buys 3000 Erie Bicycles to resell in their store at 75% and more off original price.

1898 G. Frank Fries starts Day Manufacturing Company as successor to Queen City Cycle Company.
1903 Day Manufacturing Company goes out of business.

Here are a few references. I will make a new post just on the history of these companies so that all the information found so far is in one place.

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The volume of research done and the generosity in sharing it is remarkable to me. Thanks so much. Absolutely fascinating!!
 
Very intetesting history, the factory in idleview.....which is now called Lakeview in Hamburg, NY was dismantled and the manufacturing equipment was sold to William Schack and William Heil who were employees at Day bicycles. This equipment was used by Schack and Heil to establish the first Emblem factory in Angola around 1906.
 
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