Gormully & Jeffery

Gormully & Jeffery was an American bicycle company, founded in Chicago in 1879 by Thomas B. Jeffery and R. Phillip Gormully. It marketed bicycles under the Rambler brand, and was the second bicycle manufacturer established in the United States, and the first in the western US. It developed branches in New York, Boston, and Washington, D.C. The company was sold to the American Bicycle Company in 1900 so that Jeffery could focus on manufacturing the Rambler automobile under the new Thomas B. Jeffery Company.[1]

An 1887 Gormully & Jeffery American Challenge bicycle at the Old Red Museum