Anchor Buggy Company

[1][3] Herman H. Uckotter was an inventor for the company, who invented a steering device called "the fifth wheel".

[5][6] Anchor was one of the largest carriage building companies in the region,[7] and at its peak in 1897, manufactured 125 buggies, surreys and phaetons a day.

[9] An 1890 advertisement for the Anchor Buggy Company featured the "My Wife and My Mother-in-Law" optical illusion; when viewed one way the image looked like a young woman, when viewed another way the image looked like an old woman.

[12][13][14] But in 1911, after the death of Anchor's co-founder and president Anthony G. Brunsman, the series production of the automobile was shelved.

[15] In 1917, as buggy sales declined, Anchor began selling tops with windshields for Ford cars, and later for Dodge, Olds, Buick, and Oakland.