From small town to downtown : a history of the Jewett Car Company, 1893-1919

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    • Brough, Lawrence A
    • Graebner, James H.

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From small town to downtown : a history of the Jewett Car Company, 1893-1919

Lawrence A. Brough and James H. Graebner

(Railroads past and present)

Indiana University Press, c2004

  • : cloth

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 231-247) and index

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内容説明

The Jewett Car Company was born in Akron, Ohio, in the heyday of the electric railway boom in the 1890s. The company gained an excellent reputation for its elegant, well-built wooden cars for street railway companies, interurban lines, and rapid transit service. Cities large and small used Jewett cars. Many interurban lines employed the graceful, arch-windowed, wood interurban that Jewett was famous for. Competition from automobiles and from larger car builders such as J. G. Brill and the St. Louis Car Company signaled the beginning of the end for Jewett. The company was offered the opportunity to produce munitions for World War I, but refused when a German nationalist banker who was a major source of financing for Jewett refused to allow the company to do anything that would harm Germany. As a result, the Jewett Car Company died, but the reputation of their product survives to this day.

目次

Table of Contents: Preface Acknowledgements 1. The Jewett Connection 2. The Move to Newark 3. The Boom Begins 4. The Boom Continues 5. Wright Leadership 6. Car Building 7. Suicides, Fires, and Attempted Murder 8. The Beginning of the End 9. The Survivors 10. Photo Album Epilogue Appendix: Jewett Production Information References Index

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