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Everest and Jennings
Everest & Jennings was a manufacturer of mobility and adaptive equipment. Everest & Jennings were the first company to mass-produce wheelchairs.
==Origins==
Herbert A. Everest and Harry C. Jennings Sr. were friends, and both were engineers. Herbert Everest was also physically disabled after surviving a mining accident in 1918. Everest complained to Jennings about the bulk of chairs available in the early 1930s, and in 1933, the pair designed and built a lightweight, collapsible model in Jennings' garage.〔N. R. Kleinfield, ("Wheelchair Manufacturer Target of Complaints" ) ''The Index-Journal'' (April 22, 1981): 12. via Newspapers.com 〕 The design was patented in October 1937.〔Raymond V. Smith and John H. Leslie Jr. (''Rehabilitation Engineering'' ) (CRC Press 1990): 195-196. ISBN 9780849369513〕
The pair soon went into business to manufacture their improved design. In the 1940s, they supplied disabled veterans of World War II through government contracts that established the company as a recognized name in rehabilitation equipment.〔Richard I. Bourgeois-Doyle, (''George J. Klein: The Great Inventor'' ) (NRC Research Press 2004): 166-168. ISBN 9780660193229〕〔Geoffrey Reaume, (''Lyndhurst: Canada's First Rehabilitation Centre for People with Spinal Cord Injuries, 1945-1998'' ) (McGill-Queens Press 2007): 49. ISBN 9780773576476〕〔M. Tremblay, "Going Back to Civvy Street: A Historical Account of the Impact of the Everest and Jennings Wheelchair for Canadian World War II Veterans with Spinal Cord Injury" ''Disability & Society'' 11(1996): 149-170.〕
The Everest family sold its interest in the company in 1943,〔(Everest Jennings Inc. vs. E. J. Manufacturing Co. ) United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.·263 F.2d 254 (9th Cir. 1959).〕 but Gerald Jennings, son of Harry Sr., was chief executive from 1952 until he retired in 1985.〔("Gerald M. Jennings, Wheelchair Maker" ) ''New York Times'' (November 8, 1989).〕〔("Gerald Jennings; Ran Wheelchair Firm" ) ''Los Angeles Times'' (November 8, 1989).〕
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