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Madison Square Garden in New York in February, and they planned to move their shop from Marion into better facilities in Newark on March 1st. Joseph apparently took over control of Frank's death to go on with the venture, and not long after that Frank's share in the business was offered for sale. In April the company announced their latest machine, a 36-foot span, pusher biplane, of the type taken to South America. At this time Joseph also advertised an air speed registering device on which the brothers had been working for some time. While Joseph had done some flying, he was still more interested in the development and manufacturing part of the business, so at this time their former students Horace Kimmerle and Charles Hoeflich were flying for the company.
That summer Joseph began work on a flying boat, and in November pioneer aviator Leonard Bonney did some test flying of this new machine, then in December the renowned Charles K. Hamilton also did some flying for Joseph, first on land planes then in early January, 1914 he conducted further flight tests of the flying boat on Newark Bay.
Apparently at this time company reorganization proceedings were in process, for in March it was announced that the newly formed Aeromarine Plane and Motor Company of Avondale, New Jersey had taken over the exclusive manufacturing rights of Boland planes and engines under Boland patents. Heading the new firm was Inglis M. Uppercue of New York while Joseph and James Boland were evidently retained in the new organization. A more desirable factory was acquired at Nutley, New Jersey, and at about this time another new Boland flying boat was announced, using a new 8-cylinder, 70 H.P. engine. This was a good looking pusher biplane, amphibian type machine, with a mechanically operated retractable landing gear for beaching and alighting on land. This was undoubtedly one of the first retractable landing gear applications on airocraft. This plane was designed by Joseph, and reportedly he did his last flying during its tests. The new firm also announced that engines of 60,70 and 100 H.P. were available.
In August Aeromarine reported that the well known engine manufacturer, Charles B. Kirkham, of Savona, New York was a member of the Aeromarine staff and that the company was preparing to manufacture the former line of Kirkham aviation engines.