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Parry Manufacturing Co.
Indianapolis, IN, U.S.A.
Manufacturer Class: Wood Working Machinery

History

Last Modified: Jan 30 2015 6:49PM by Jeff_Joslin
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This company, active from 1882 until a 1919 merger, made wagons and other vehicles. They allegedly made wheelwright's machinery but so far as we have been able to determine, if they ever did so they were only for their own use.

Information Sources

Carriage and Wagon Makers Machinery and Tools by Kenneth L. Cope, 2004 page 146, lists this company as a maker of wheelwrights' machinery.
A web page says that this company was established in 1882.

The Wikipedia entry for Parry Auto Co. provides some background information on the founders of Parry Mfg. Co.
A coach builder website has a page on this company that provides the following:
The Martin-Parry Corp. was the result of a 1919 merger between the Martin Truck & Body Corp. of York, Pennsylvania and the Parry Mfg Co. of Indianapolis, Indiana. The firm was purchased by GM in March of 1930, renaming it the Chevrolet Body Division, General Motors Corp.
The 1897 book, Hyman's Handbook of Indianapolis, has a writeup on this company.