Fahy Brothers started business in Dominick Street. They built sidecars, traps and horse-drawn coaches. As motor cars were introduced to the world and began to take over from horse-drawn vehicles, Fahys built the bodies for most of the motorised cars in Galway. The engines would arrive in crates by train and Fahys would build the bodies around them.
They wished to: ‘direct the attention of the public to the splendid stock of new vehicles of all sorts now on view in their showrooms including Ralli Cars, Outside Cars, Fancy Traps etc which for style, workmanship and finish defy description’.
They also built coaches and charabancs for people like O’Hallorans, Silkes and O’Flahertys. They advertised extensively and obviously imaginatively … anyone who could claim to have dust-proof showrooms had imagination.
Frank Ryan was a foreman with Fahys. They kept windscreen glass in stock, rubber tyres could be supplied at the shortest notice and herald painting (having your family crest painted on the car) was a speciality.
The business moved to Forster Street around 1921.
