Customers ranged from a major metropolitan air-quality board to a major consumer detergent, food and sundries company, along with the expected heavy industry companies, research laboratories and universities.
So-called "sartorial" dressing -- fashionese for suit and their sundries -- is now about lustrous fabrics, restrained pattern (if any), and blue-chip back stories.
By 1885, the club had established a small repair-shop in its wheel-room, with a small assortment of parts and sundries of prominent makes, for the convenience of members.
The company would also manufacture everything used in equipping an automobile with the exception of tires and sundries which are sold by specialty companies.