0
Your cart

Your cart is empty

Books > Business & Economics > Industry & industrial studies > Transport industries > Railway transport industries

Buy Now

From Small Town to Downtown - A History of the Jewett Car Company, 1893-1919 (Hardcover) Loot Price: R1,159
Discovery Miles 11 590
From Small Town to Downtown - A History of the Jewett Car Company, 1893-1919 (Hardcover): Lawrence A. Brough, James H. Graebner

From Small Town to Downtown - A History of the Jewett Car Company, 1893-1919 (Hardcover)

Lawrence A. Brough, James H. Graebner

Series: Railroads Past and Present

 (sign in to rate)
Loot Price R1,159 Discovery Miles 11 590 | Repayment Terms: R109 pm x 12*

Bookmark and Share

Expected to ship within 10 - 15 working days

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.

General

Imprint: Indiana University Press
Country of origin: United States
Series: Railroads Past and Present
Release date: April 2004
First published: March 2004
Authors: Lawrence A. Brough • James H. Graebner
Dimensions: 254 x 178 x 22mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover - Paper over boards
Pages: 272
ISBN-13: 978-0-253-34369-7
Categories: Books > Business & Economics > Industry & industrial studies > Transport industries > Railway transport industries > General
LSN: 0-253-34369-0
Barcode: 9780253343697

Is the information for this product incomplete, wrong or inappropriate? Let us know about it.

Does this product have an incorrect or missing image? Send us a new image.

Is this product missing categories? Add more categories.

Review This Product

No reviews yet - be the first to create one!

Partners