 After David Olyphant's son Robert Morrison Olyphant reorganized the firm in 1858, in the 1870s, partner Augustus Allen Hayes helped revive proposals for the Woosung Road Railway between Woosung (now known as Wusong) and Shanghai's Zhabei District in conjunction with Jardine Matheson and Augustine Heard and Company.Olyphant and Co. owned and operated the following clippers for the transport of tea and silk from China to the US