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Tecumseh products Cofounded by Charles Floyd SAGE and Ray HERRICK
The TECUMSEH PRODUCTS, founded in Tecumseh, Michigan in 1934, was cofounded by two mechanical engineers, Charles Floyd Sage and Ray Herrick. Both men worked as mechanics in garages in Hillsdale, Michigan in the late 1920s and early 1930s: Charles Floyd Sage’s shop was called the General Machine Shop and Garage.

The Hillsdale Machine and Tool Shop was cofounded by both men in 1931, and the Tecumseh Products was formed in 1934 with Charles Floyd Sage acting as President at that time. Within a few years the Presidency changed hands and Ray Herrick was later President.

His Battle Creek, Michigan obituary of 29 December, 1961 reads: “Charles F. Sage, a one-time Battle Creek resident who became a millionaire after cofounding the Tecumseh Products Co.in Tecumseh, Michigan, died Wednsday in an Ann Arbor Hospital. Mr. Sage was a co-inventor of the compressor, having perfected the unit in his private garage while living in Hillsdale. The company is known as the world’s largest manufacturer of refrigeration compressors. He was born in Hastings and in 1906 came to Battle Creek with his parents, Frank W. and Dora (Bristol) Sage.

Mr Sage made his start here with the Adolph Johnson Co. and later the Gavin Ritchie Co...”

Battle Creek Enquirer, 29 Dec 1961 Detroit Free Press, 29 Dec 1961 Lansing State Journal, 29 Dec 1961 Tecumseh Herald, 8 June 1966 Tecumseh Herald, 28 Apr 1988

71.212.22.126 (talk) 22:37, 19 April 2020 (UTC)Mary Therese MUDGETT