Sunday, October 27, 2019

Car builders' order lists

One of the many valuable resources I've turned to over the years has been the website created some time back by the late Dr. Harold E. Cox, noted traction historian, at streetcars.telcen.com. The site includes a scanned copy of The Birney Car, some other shorter historical publications, and - quite usefully for me - lists of orders placed with several electric car builders. Unfortunately, a year or so ago the portion of the site devoted to builder order lists went down. But there's good news! I recently stumbled upon the fact that the lists themselves are still online - it's just the directory page on the website that's down. So in case you're looking for them, here are the links:

American Car & Foundry

American Car Company

Brill 1887-1899

Brill 1900-1909

Brill 1910-1941

Canadian Car & Foundry

Cincinnati

Danville

Jackson & Sharp (thanks to Charlie Lowe for tracking this one down)

Kuhlman

Laconia (PDF)

Perley Thomas (PDF)

The Pullman electric car order list has been digitized and is available here:

Pullman (Google Sheets)

There is still a monumental Pullman order list on the Eric's Railroad Car History site here:

Pullman (PDF)

There's also this enormous listing on the Barriger Library site of AC&F orders that is not limited to electric cars, though electrics are included:

AC&F (PDF)

There's a list of St Louis Car Company orders included in Alan Lind's excellent book on that company, From Horsecars to Streamliners. There's also a "mostly complete" order list of Jewett Car Company orders in the book From Small Town to Downtown by Lawrence Brough and James Graebner.

That still leaves several major builders for which I have never seen an order list including McGuire-Cummings, Niles, Ottawa, and Stephenson, plus a number of smaller builders.

1 comment:

  1. Jewett order list is a part of this book: https://books.google.com.ua/books?id=CCfSk4WMDeoC

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