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.
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