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.

Anchor Buggy Co. letterhead (1897)
Portrait photograph of Alfred F. Klausmeyer
"Largest Buggy in the World" built by the Anchor Buggy Co., for themselves and the Kingman & Co. houses as an advertisement, 1903
1910 Anchor