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Garfield Arthur " Gar " Wood (December 4, 1880 – June 19, 1971) was an American inventor, entrepreneur, and championship motorboat builder and racer who held the world water speed record on several occasions. He was the first man to travel over 100 miles per hour (160 km/h) on water.
- Early Background
- Invents Hydraulic Lift
- Purchases Chris Smith Boat Co.
- “Baby Gar” Era
- World’S Finest Boat Factory
- Speedster Era
- Post War Designs
Garfield Wood never intended to go into the boat building business. His goal was to personally set every speed record on water and be recognized as the world’s speedboat king. However, as he set forth to achieve these goals, he was influenced by colleagues and friends and as a result built one of the world’s finest line of production recreational s...
By the turn of the century Gar and his wife Murlen lived in St. Paul where he was involved in a number of enterprises including a traveling repair shop to service machines and early automobiles. Despite the rapid industrial growth surrounding him, Gar was still on the outer edge and had not begun to prosper from it. In 1911 at age 31 Gar focused hi...
At the noonday meeting of the Detroit Exchange Club in 1916, Lee Barrett, secretary of the Miss Detroit Powerboat Association made a plea for some local Detroiter to help out the syndicate and purchase Miss Detroit I. The man that stood up and volunteered was Gar Wood. After he agreed to purchase Miss DetroitI he left for Algonac to see her. While ...
During the winter of 1921-22 the rules governing the Gold Cup Races were changed dramatically by the American Power Boat Association. The changes limited engine size, length and configuration of hulls. The rules committee said that they wished to encourage “Gentlemen’s Runabouts” that could be used for family recreation as well as racing. However, ...
Gar Wood’s experience with hydraulic hoist production demonstrated the value of efficiency of facilities design. His new boat plant would be designed to be the finest boat building factory in the world. In 1930 Gar opened a new factory that could produce 1200 custom quality boats a year in Marysville, Michigan. The same excellent standards of quali...
The next change came in 1934 with the introduction of the 16′ split cockpit runabout. In the middle of the year Gar Wood received a personal request from his good friend Edward Noble, owner of the Lifesaver Candy Company. Since 1926 Noble had been speeding on the St. Lawrence River in his famous 33′ Baby Gar, SNAIL. He told Gar Wood that he and his...
In early 1945 as World War II wound down to its final campaigns, a series of advertisements from the “new” Gar Wood boat division began to appear. The new management of Gar Wood Industries decides to restyle their boat line and Norman Bel Geddes, noted industrial designer, is retained to give Gar Wood boats a complete new look. This was a decision ...
Garfield Arthur Wood - the immortal "Grey Fox of Grayhaven (Michigan)" - was Unlimited hydroplane racing's first superstar. In the years prior to World War II, "King Gar" personified power boat competition in the eyes of the world.
Garfield Arthur Wood - the immortal "Grey Fox of Grayhaven (Michigan)" - was Unlimited hydroplane racing's first superstar. In the years prior to World War II, "King Gar" personified power boat competition in the eyes of the world.
6 de jul. de 2015 · Few people remember that Gar Wood, the man who put motor trucks to work 100 years ago when he patented and produced the hydraulic hoist for dump bodies, was als.
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9 de set. de 2016 · Mr. Garfield (Gar) Wood was a self trained engineer, inventor and savvy businessman. He invented the first hydraulic hoist for dump trucks, pyramiding its success into a multi-millionaire fortune by age 40.
Learn about Garfield Arthur "Gar" Wood, a Detroit area inventor who created the hydraulic lift, the Gar Wood Load Packer, and the Gar Wood motorboats. He also broke five world speed records and helped design the PT boats for World War II.
