Manufacturer Order Lists

For quite a while, I've had a page on this blog site with links to manufacturer order lists. If you view the website on desktop, or use "website view" on mobile, it's at the bottom of the right column with a few other interesting links. Anyway, most of the manufacturer order lists have always been lists that were posted back around 2004 by the late Dr. Harold E. Cox, a well-known traction historian. He had posted lists of quite a few builders, and from what I could tell, he was going alphabetically but stopped partway through the alphabet.

Anyway, Dr. Cox passed away in 2021 at the age of 90 after a period of declining health. I had figured that his order list site might go away at some point, so I copied and saved all the information locally. At least, I thought I did. Within the past few weeks, his old website finally went dark. It was then that I discovered I had missed a few builders! I copied the lists for ACF, American, Brill, CCF, Cincinnati, Kuhlman, LaClede, and Perley Thomas, and I've now put that information back online, linked from the page above.

But I'm missing several others, most notably Danville, Jackson & Sharp, and Laconia (the Laconia list was in PDF format; the others were HTML tables). There were also lists for Barber and Federal that I didn't save, though Barber was a very small builder and Federal went out of business very early.

UPDATE: I'd like to extend a huge THANK YOU to Mark Sims, who saved the Barber, Danville, Jackson & Sharp, and Laconia order lists, and sent them to me to add to the web page linked above. These are now available for use as well. Thanks, Mark!