In 1900 the Lozier Motor Company left its bicycle manufacturing business in Cleveland, Ohio and relocated to Plattsburgh, New York. The company built marine engines and passenger boats in a factory on the corner of Margaret Street and Cumberland Avenue. Realizing that boat manufacturing was a seasonal business, the construction and sale of boats was negatively impacted by the long North Country winters.
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The Lozier Motor Company switched to the booming industry of automobile production in 1905.