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By 1911, Galion began production of light-duty horse-drawn road graders. The company's success and product diversification brought about its reorganization in 1923, and a name change to Galion Iron Works and Manufacturing Company. The "Light Premier" was an early grader produced in 1915.
His first action as the figurehead was to invest two million dollars into the purchase of Galion Iron Works, a manufacturer of road rollers and graders for sale to local and state governments. Jeffrey Manufacturing survived the Great Depression and company prosperity continued into the immediate post war years.
A grader, also commonly referred to as a road grader, motor grader, or simply blade, is a form of heavy equipment with a long blade used to create a flat surface during grading. Although the earliest models were towed behind horses, and later tractors , most modern graders are self-propelled and thus technically "motor graders".
Galion and neighboring communities are served by a semi-weekly newspaper, the Galion Inquirer. [47] The city's first newspaper, The District Democrat, was founded in 1855 and later sold and renamed The Galion Train. [9] Galion radio station 102.3 The Fox is a classic rock station based in Galion, Ohio. It broadcasts a wide range of rock music ...
On 28 December that year, [15] they also acquired the Galion Iron Works, which built road rollers and graders. Between 1951 and 1962, 80% of the Jeffrey Manufacturing Company's income came from these two subsidiaries. [10] [16]
The highway was first signed in 1923 on a section of the current alignment. The route has been extended a few times; the first in 1926 extending the route to SR 3. The first section of road was paved in 1938. Another extension happened in 1939 with the route heading west to Galion. The final section paved was completed in the mid-1950s.
Galion Godwin Truck Body Co. was named after its founding city of Galion, Ohio and was founded as early as the 1870s. Originally known as Galion Buggy Company, the business was born from demand for horse-drawn transportation. A short time after its founding, Galion Buggy Company found a market for retrofitting hauling boxes onto existing ...
State Route 61 (SR 61) is a north–south state highway in the northern portion of the U.S. state of Ohio.Its southern terminus is at the U.S. Route 36/State Route 3 concurrency in Sunbury, and its northern terminus is at U.S. Route 6 east of Huron, at the southernmost point of Lake Erie (which is subsequently the southernmost northern border of the United States).