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Iver Johnson was a U.S. firearms, bicycle, and motorcycle manufacturer from 1871 to 1993. The company shared the same name as its founder, Norwegian-born Iver Johnson (1841–1895).

The name was resold and in 2006 Iver Johnson Arms opened, but does not have any parts or information relating to the pre-1993 company, and represents a continuation of it in name only.^[1]

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Iver Johnson[edit]

Iver Johnson was born in Nordfjord in the year 1841,^[2] in Nordfjord, Sogn og Fjordane county, Norway^[3] and later emigrated from Norway to the United States. He was educated as a gunsmith in Bergen in 1857 and had a gun store in Oslo. He married Mary Elizabeth Speirs (born January 1847 ^[4][5][6][7]) on April 9, 1868, in Worcester, with whom he had 3 sons (Frederick Iver, John Lovell, and Walter Olof) and 2 daughters (Mary Louise and Nellie).

Iver Johnson immigrated to Worcester, Massachusetts from Norway in 1863 at the height of the American Civil War. Johnson was a gunsmith by trade at the time, but also worked as an inventor in his spare time, which would come in handy later on as he sought new and creative uses for his partially idle manufacturing equipment, a thought process which would eventually lead him and his heirs to diversify the corporation's businesses. His early work involved not only gunsmithing locally in Fitchburg, MA, but it also included providing designs and work to other firearms companies, notably Allen & Wheelock for whom he made so-called 'pepperbox' pistols.^[8]

Johnson Bye & Company[edit]

In 1871, Johnson joined Martin Bye to form the Johnson Bye & Company, merging his own and Martin Bye's gunsmithing operations. During this period, Johnson and Bye filed for and received several new firearms features and firearms feature improvement patents. Their primary revenues came from the sale of their self designed and manufactured inexpensive models of revolvers. Not much is known about Martin Bye, as there is very little documented information about his life.^[9]

Bye and Johnson filed jointly for and were awarded multiple patents together, mostly related to firearms designs, beginning in 1876. The company's name changed to Iver Johnson & Company in 1883 upon Johnson's purchase of Bye's interest in the firm. Bye continued to work in the firearm industry for the remainder of his life.^[9]

Iver Johnson's Arms & Cycle Works[edit]

The company's name changed again to Iver Johnson's Arms & Cycle Works in 1891, when the company relocated to Fitchburg, Massachusetts, (sometimes incorrectly referred to as 'Fitzburg') in order to have better and larger manufacturing facilities. The company attracted a number of talented immigrant machinists and designers to its ranks, including O.F. Mossberg and Andrew Fyrberg, who would go on to invent the company's top-latching strap mechanism and the Hammer-the-Hammer transfer bar safety system used on the company's popular line of top-break safety revolvers.^[10][11]

Iver Johnson died of tuberculosis in 1895,^[2] and his sons took over the business. Frederick Iver, (born 10/2/1871),^{[5][6][7][12]} John Lovell (born 6/26/1876),^{[5][6][7][13][14]} and Walter Olof (born August 1878),^[5][6][7] each had vastly different levels of involvement in the company ranging from executive leadership to barely any involvement at all. They shepherded the company through a phase of expansion, as bicycle operations grew, then converted to motorcycle manufacturing and sales. They also saw the growth of the firearms business and the eventual restructuring of the company to focus on firearms and related business as they divested non-firearms concerns, such as the motorcycle business, in the face of growing firearms demand, World War I's armaments industry expansion, and other factors. As family ownership waned and outside investment via publicly traded stock and mergers/acquisitions/partnerships took hold, the company changed ownership and moved several times during its operation.^[15]

The company eventually dropped 'Cycle Works' from its moniker when that part of the business was shut down. The business successfully weathered the Great Depression (in part thanks to higher rates of armed robbery, which helped maintain demand for personal firearms) and was buoyed by the dramatic increase in the market for arms leading up to and during World War II.^[15]

After World War II, the company's introduction of new firearms slowed to a trickle. Increasingly, company fortunes depended upon sales of its increasingly outmoded revolvers and single-barrel shotguns. Without new research and development, most firearms changes were limited to cosmetic updates of existing designs.^[15]

As a result of changes in ownership, the company had the first of two major relocations in 1971 when it moved to New Jersey. It moved again to Jacksonville, Arkansas, and was jointly owned by Lynn Lloyd and Lou Imperato, who also owned the Henry brand name, before it finally ceased trading under its own name in 1993, at which time it was owned by American Military Arms Corporation (AMAC).^[16]

Iver Johnson firearm models[edit]

Iver Johnson nomenclature refers to its top-break revolvers as Safety Automatics. These are revolvers, not semi-automatic pistols, which they largely pre-date. The term 'Safety Automatic' refers to Iver Johnson's Hammer-the-Hammer transfer bar safety system ('safety') and the automatic ejection of cartridges upon breaking open the revolvers ('automatic').^[9]

Safety automatic[edit]

Standard models with external hammer:

• First Model (1894–1895), single post latch system
• Second Model (1896–1908), double post latch system
• Third Model (1909–1941), double post latch system, adapted for smokeless powder

Safety automatic hammerless[edit]

• First Model (1895–1896), single post latch
• Second Model (1897–1908), safety lever added to face of trigger
• Third Model a.k.a. New Model (1909–1941), no safety lever on trigger, adapted for smokeless powder

Assassinations[edit]

William McKinley assassination[edit]

Presidential assassin Leon Czolgosz shot and fatally wounded U.S. PresidentWilliam McKinley in Buffalo, New York on September 6, 1901 with an Iver Johnson .32 caliber Safety Automatic revolver (serial number 463344).^[17][18] (McKinley succumbed to these wounds nearly eight days later, at 2:15 am on the 14th of September). The revolver is currently on display at the Buffalo History Museum in Buffalo.^[19]

Franklin D. Roosevelt attempted assassination[edit]

In 1933, Giuseppe Zangara shot and killed Chicago mayor Anton Cermak at a political event in Miami, in an apparent attempt to assassinate president-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt. Zangara was using a .32 revolver by the United States Revolver Company, a subsidiary of Iver Johnson.^[20]

Robert Kennedy assassination[edit]

Sirhan Sirhan shot and killed Presidential candidate United States SenatorRobert F. Kennedy in Los Angeles, California on 5 June 1968 with an eight-shot Iver Johnson .22 caliber Cadet 55-A revolver (serial number H-53725, Trial-People's Exhibit #6, misidentified in trial testimony as S/N H-18602).^[21] The revolver as well as the official police files, reports, interviews, ballistics reports, bullet fragments and other important evidence, related to Kennedy's assassination, is today housed in the California State Archives in Sacramento.^[22]

Bicycles[edit]

Iver Johnson bicycles are classic examples of early American bicycles, and during the bicycle boom of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the company had a very productive bicycle manufacturing and sales line of business. Today, Iver Johnsons are considered to be 'classics' by vintage bicycle collectors, and are considered to be especially pleasing from an aesthetic point of view. O.F. Mossberg worked in the bicycle plant and then started his own firearms factory.^[11]

Even when they were new, I-J's were marketed and had a reputation for being very graceful looking, well built, and engineered for performance. Iver Johnson sponsored the career of bicycle racing champion Major Taylor beginning in 1900.^[23] The most noted I-J model was the truss-bridge frame which featured a curved tube under the top tube to strengthen the frame for use on the rough roads of the early twentieth century.^[24] Bicycle production ceased in 1940 with the buildup of arms production prior to World War II.^[15]

Today, Iver Johnson bicycles are highly collectible, well sought after, and relatively rare compared to most other major manufacturer's products from that time. An Iver Johnson bicycle is on display at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History in the America on the Move exhibit.^[25]

Motorcycles[edit]

Launched in Fitchburg, MA in 1907, The Iver Johnson Company motorcycle division was born from the conversion of a line of business that had been manufacturing bicycles for some 23 years prior to that point. Ultimately, the arms division of the business was growing so rapidly to meet demand that management decided to focus on that market and as a result motorcycle operations closed in 1916 (varying sources claim the last year as being 1915, with 1916 seeing only the sales of remaining 1915 produced inventory), bringing to an end 33 years of total cycle operations (23 for bicycles, and another 10 for motorcycle and run-off bicycle business).^[26]

According to Jeffry L'H. Tank'sHistory of the Motorcycle, Iver Johnson advertised their machines as 'Mechanical Perfection,' a boast that was not entirely unbelievable given the number of advanced design features in especially their later models, such as dual crankshafts, nickel-alloy machined parts, chain drive, and a hand-operated three-speed gearbox. In fact, among collectors and researchers who have the benefit of hindsight, Iver-Johnsons, such as the 1915 Model 15-7 along with Scotts, are the finest examples of motorcycle engineering of that era.^[27]

End of Iver Johnson and revival of name[edit]

Though all vestiges of Iver Johnson as a going concern are now gone as of 1993, there is still a great deal of interest in the company and the collection of their products, although that interest is focused on their firearms business and not their motorcycle business. Where their motorcycles are collected, they are collected as examples of early motorcycles (as is the case with the products of many of the companies from the early days of the industry) and in an effort to catalog all of the early manufacturers, not so much out of inherent interest in Iver Johnson motorcycles themselves.

In 2006 the name was reused as Iver Johnson Arms Incorporated in Florida as manufacturer and importer of firearms (from Philippines, Turkey and Belgium), including 1911-style semi-automatic pistols, but not related to the old Iver Johnson lines.^[28] The new firm was renamed from Squires Bingham International, founded in 1973.^[29]

References[edit]

1. ^Iver Johnson Arms accessed 1 April 2013
2. ^ ^abMassachusetts deaths, 1841-1915, Familysearch, https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/NW7D-6LF
3. ^National Archives and Records Administration, 1872 October 30.Index to New England Naturalization Petitions, 1791-1906, serial M1299, roll 79.
4. ^National Archives and Records Administration, 1870, August 18. 1870 U.S. census, population schedules: Worcester Ward 4, Worcester, Massachusetts, roll M593_658: p. 223B: image 483: lines 13-20.
5. ^ ^abcdNational Archives and Records Administration, 1880, June 8. 1880 U.S. census, population schedules: Worcester, Worcester, Massachusetts, roll 567: p. 122D: enumeration district 884: image 0542: lines 22-27.
6. ^ ^abcdNational Archives and Records Administration, 1900, June 6. 1900 U.S. census, population schedules: Fitchburg Ward 2, Worcester, Massachusetts, roll T623_691: p. 9A: enumeration district: 1609: lines 13-14 & 20-23.
7. ^ ^abcdNational Archives and Records Administration, 1910, April 25. 1910 U.S. census, population schedules: Fitchburg Ward 2, Worcester, Massachusetts, roll T624_628: p. 10A: enumeration district 1728: image: 158: lines 70-76.
8. ^The Story of Allen & Wheelock Firearms (H. H. Thomas, author. Pioneer Press, Incorporated. 1991)
9. ^ ^abcHogg, Ian; Walter, John (29 August 2004). Pistols of the World. David & Charles. pp. 183–185. ISBN0-87349-460-1.
10. ^I. Johnson & O. Mossberg, U.S. Patent No. 511,620, Dec. 26, 1893
11. ^ ^ab'The Mossberg Story'. Gun Digest (17 ed.). Chicago: The Gun Digest Co. 1963. pp. 120–124.
12. ^National Archives and Records Administration, 1902, May 27. Passport Applications, 1795–1905: Suffolk County, Massachusetts, roll M1372, application #57156.
13. ^National Archives and Records Administration, 1904, January 18. Passport Applications, 1795–1905: Suffolk County, Massachusetts, roll M1372, application #81238.
14. ^National Archives and Records Administration, 1918, September 12. United States, Selective Service System, World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918: Fitchburg, Worcester, Massachusetts, roll 1685193.
15. ^ ^abcdFjestad, S. P. (1 April 2008). Blue Book of Gun Values. Hal Leonard Corporation. p. 323. ISBN978-1-886768-75-8.
16. ^Iver Johnson's Arms & Cycle Works Inc. (Direct Investments, Ltd.)
17. ^Taylerson, A. W. F. (1971), The Revolver, 1889-1914, Crown Publishers, p. 60
18. ^Johns, A. Wesley (1970), The man who shot McKinley, A. S. Barnes, p. 97
19. ^'Collections Highlights'. Buffalo History Museum.
20. ^Robert Sherrill (February 1975). The Saturday night special: and other guns with which Americans won the West, protected bootleg franchises, slew wildlife, robbed countless banks, shot husbands purposely and by mistake, and killed presidents--together with the debate over continuing same. Penguin Books. p. 167.
21. ^Moldea, Dan E. (1995). The Killing of Robert F. Kennedy: An Investigation of Motive, Means, and Opportunity. W.W. Norton. p. 69. ISBN978-0-393-03791-3.
22. ^LLC, Filiquarian Publishing,; Investigation, Federal Bureau of (2007). Robert F. Kennedy Assassination: The FBI Files. Filiquarian Publishing, LLC. p. 1. ISBN978-1-59986-254-5.
23. ^Brill, Marlene Targ (1 September 2007). Marshall 'Major' Taylor: World Champion Bicyclist, 1899-191. Twenty-First Century Books. p. 70. ISBN978-0-8225-6610-6.
24. ^Popular Science. Bonnier Corporation. December 1924. p. 135. ISSN0161-7370.
25. ^School Media Quarterly. 3. American Association of School Librarians. 1974. p. 166.
26. ^Hatfield, Jerry (8 February 2006). Standard Catalog of American Motorcycles 1898-1981: The Only Book to Fully Chronicle Every Bike Ever Built. Iola, Wisconsin: Krause Publications. pp. 362–363. ISBN0-87349-949-2.
27. ^Tank, J (2004). History of the Motorcycle: From the First Motorized Bicycles to the Powerful and Sophisticated Superbikes of Today. Parragon. ISBN978-1-4054-3952-7.
28. ^http://iverjohnsonarms.com/
29. ^http://www.m1carbinesinc.com/carbine_ijd.html

Other sources[edit]

• Goforth, W.E. Iver Johnson Arms & Cycle Works Firearms 1871-1993 (Gun Show Books Publishing. 2006) ISBN978-0-9787086-0-3
• Thomas, H. H. The Story of Allen & Wheelock Firearms (Pioneer Press, Incorporated. 1991) ISBN978-0-913150-73-3

External links[edit]

• Iver Johnson firearms - armscollectors.com

There were 3 models of the IJ revolver, and in each differentmodel, the s/n was repeated, so that without seeing the gun andidentifying its variation, we cannot know if it is 1st Model, 2ndModel, or 3rd Model. Additionally, the later IJs wer prefixed witha letter, so yours must be an early one. A publication entitledIver-Johnson Arms & Cycle Works Firearms 1871-1993 has a listof most serial #'s with dates of production, published by Gun ShowBooks Publishing. There were three main models of Iver Johnson'Safety' topbreak revolvers. 1st & 2nd Model revolvers werebuilt for black powder cartridges only. Continued use of higherpressure smokeless in these revolvers will result in them shootingloose, getting out of time, and parts breakage. The 3rd Model wasespecially beefed-up, redesigned, and 'fortified' for use withsmokeless powder and is fine for modern factory ammo. Alas, only1st (all) & 2nd (some) Model revolvers fall into the legalAntique category. 1st Model (1894-1896): SINGLE-POST top latch;leaf springs; cylinder 'free-wheeling' when at rest 2nd Model(1897-1908): DOUBLE-POST top latch; leaf springs; cylinder'free-wheeling' when at rest 3rd Model (1909-1941): DOUBLE-POST toplatch; COIL springs; cylinder locked when at rest If you'vedetermined, from the above characteristics, that you have a 2ndModel IJ revolver, here's how to determine whether it was madebefore 1899 (and thus a legal antique) or not. Fortunately, IverJohnson built revolvers by the 'batch' system, and only changed& upgraded their guns once a year, so it is quite easy todetermine whether an IJ is antique or not, just by cursoryexamination. In only * one* case (.32 small frame *hammer* model)does the serial number need to be checked. In other cases, you can'tell at a glance' once you know what to look for. Pre-1899 2ndModel guns will exhibit the following characteristics: Large frame(.38) HAMMERLESS: Separate hammer shroud on frame (shroud notintegral with frame) Small Frame (.32) HAMMERLESS: Separate hammershroud on frame (shroud not integral with frame) Note: Integralframe w/shroud introduced start of 1899 production Large frame(.38) hammer: Patent dates on top rib of BARREL Small Frame (.32)hammer: Patent dates on top rib of BARREL, *AND* must check serialnumber prefix (left side of grip strap underneath grip - yes, youmust remove the grips for this one): A = 1897; E = 1898; F = 1899.The easy way to remember: If it has an 'F' it FLUNKS the AntiqueTest. Note 1: Patent dates moved from top rib of barrel at start of1899 production. Note 2: All .22 rimfire IJ topbreak revolvers arepost-1898 (The .22 chambering began in 1901).

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