Welcome to the Woodward Governor Company unofficial History Site

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In the beginning of the 1890's Amos had to sell and fix bicycles to keep the cash flow coming in.

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A newspaper advertisement for the A.W. Woodward bicycle repair business. The ad is dated from 1894, when the country was in the midst of a depression, and Amos Woodward had to turn to bicycle sales and repairs to keep the company afloat.