![]() He stayed on at the company another 20 years to run Top End until 2013. The company had sales of about $70,000 its first year and $900,000 seven years later when Peterson sold Top End to Invacare, a global maker of home and long-term care medical products. "We just made racing wheelchairs at first," Peterson said. In 1986, Peterson and Murray founded a company, Top End, that grew to become a dominant maker of the various sport wheelchairs used at adaptive sports competitions like the Warrior Games, where some preliminary competition began Friday. ![]() He didn't want me to be designing." The owner once went on vacation and left Peterson alone, so he made his own chair, which didn't conform to the company's style but did end up in a newspaper article. "I was real creative," he said, "and I guess there was a little friction between me and the other guy. ![]() ![]() In 1985, Peterson moved to Pinellas County to make racing and basketball chairs for that company, though not for long. After Peterson started going to races, he met wheelchair racing champion George Murray, who introduced him to a guy in the Tampa Bay area who made racing wheelchairs. ![]()
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