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Category : Automobiles
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
The Automotive Manufacturer
Author: Suelflohn & Seefeld's Illustrated Catalogue and Price List of Carriage and Wagon Hardware, Woodwork, Iron and Steel, Carriage Makers' and Blacksmiths' Tools, Paints, Varnishes, Etc
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Category : Carriage and wagon making
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
The Carriage Trade
Author: Thomas A. KinneyPublisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 9780801879463
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 462
Book Description
Co-Winner of the 2005 Hagley Business History Book Prize given by the Busines History Conference. In 1926, the Carriage Builders' National Association met for the last time, signaling the automobile's final triumph over the horse-drawn carriage. Only a decade earlier, carriages and wagons were still a common sight on every Main Street in America. In the previous century, carriage-building had been one of the largest and most dynamic industries in the country. In this sweeping study of a forgotten trade, Thomas A. Kinney extends our understanding of nineteenth-century American industrialization far beyond the steel mill and railroad. The legendary Studebaker Brothers Manufacturing Company in 1880 produced a hundred wagons a day—one every six minutes. Across the country, smaller factories fashioned vast quantities of buggies, farm wagons, and luxury carriages. Today, if we think of carriage and wagon at all, we assume it merely foreshadowed the automobile industry. Yet., the carriage industry epitomized a batch-work approach to production that flourished for decades. Contradicting the model of industrial development in which hand tools, small firms, and individual craftsmanship simply gave way to mechanized factories, the carriage industry successfully employed small-scale business and manufacturing practices throughout its history. The Carriage Trade traces the rise and fall of this heterogeneous industry, from the pre-industrial shop system to the coming of the automobile, using as case studies Studebaker, the New York–based luxury carriage-maker Brewsters, and dozens of smallerfirms from around the country. Kinney also explores the experiences of the carriage and wagon worker over the life of the industry. Deeply researched and strikingly original, this study contributes a vivid chapter to the story of America's industrial revolution.
Wages and Hours of Labour ...
Author: Great Britain. Board of TradePublisher:
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Category : Hours of labor
Languages : en
Pages : 890
Book Description
Bradshaw's monthly railway and steam navigation guide
Author: George BradshawOfficial Guide to the Yellowstone National Park
Author: William C. RileyPublisher:
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Category : Yellowstone National Park
Languages : en
Pages : 170
Book Description
"Being a description of the Mammoth Hot Springs, the Geyser Basins, the cataracts, the cañons [that is, canyons], and other natural features of the new wonderland, with nineteen illustrations, a plan of the Upper Geyser Basin and route maps; also an Appendix, containing railroad rates, as well as other miscellaneous information."--Title page.
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Author: George Measom
Author: George S. Measom