The Flxible sidecar was the motorcycle sidecar on which the Flxible Company was founded. Hugo H. Young, who ran a motorcycle sales agency in Mansfield, Ohio, designed a sidecar joined to the motorcycle by a flexible connection, so that the third wheel could tilt with the motorcycle and rise over obstructions without upsetting its balance. In 1913 he founded the Flxible Side Car Company to build it, and its sidecars became favourites with sidecar racers. During the First World War Flxible built sidecars for the Allied armies, attached to Excelsior motorcycles and carrying a mounted machine gun. In the early 1920s the sidecar market dried up once a Ford Roadster cost less than a motorcycle and sidecar, and the company turned to funeral cars, ambulances and buses.
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was an American manufacturer of motorcycle sidecars, funeral cars, ambulances, intercity coaches and transit buses, based in Loudonville, Ohio.
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was an American manufacturer of motorcycle sidecars, funeral cars, ambulances, intercity coaches and transit buses, based in Loudonville, Ohio.
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In 1913, Young founded the Flxible Side Car Company in Loudonville, Ohio to manufacture his patented vehicle.
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Young built a prototype sidecar for his own use.
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In 1913, Young founded the Flxible Side Car Company in Loudonville, Ohio to manufacture his patented vehicle.
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In 1913, Young founded the Flxible Side Car Company in Loudonville, Ohio to manufacture his patented vehicle.
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the market for motorcycle sidecars dropped off and Flxible turned to other markets.
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was an American manufacturer of motorcycle sidecars, funeral cars, ambulances, intercity coaches and transit buses, based in Loudonville, Ohio.
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was an American manufacturer of motorcycle sidecars, funeral cars, ambulances, intercity coaches and transit buses, based in Loudonville, Ohio.
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