the quality of the carriages and chaises he produced led to orders from the royal in dresden. the business also extended to upholstering, painting and finishing carriages supplied as basic shells by other makers. in 1898 who had hitherto been one of the manufacturers supplying unfinished carriages, became a co-owner of the gläser business. heuer at this time was running his own forge and carriage workshop at radeberg, some east of the city, but his working relationship with gläser was already well established: he had indeed married gläser's daughter back in 1885. when gläser, by now more than 70, died in 1902 heuer was left as the sole owner of the flourishing business that bore his father-in-law's name.