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Conshohocken Car Works (1880–) Conshohocken, Pennsylvania [9] Cummings Car Works (1851–1876) Jersey City, New Jersey [9] Darby Corporation (1965–1989 ) Kansas City, Kansas [9] Dauphin Car Works (1880s) Dauphin, Pennsylvania [9] Davenport and Bridges (1834 – c. 1856) Cambridgeport, Massachusetts [9]
Railway carriage and wagon works is the previously used British English term for a manufacturer of railway rolling stock. It could refer to one of the following: Birmingham Railway Carriage and Wagon Company; Cravens Railway Carriage and Wagon Company; Gloucester Railway Carriage and Wagon Company; Lancaster Railway Carriage and Wagon Company
Coach of a noble family, c. 1870 The word carriage (abbreviated carr or cge) is from Old Northern French cariage, to carry in a vehicle. [3] The word car, then meaning a kind of two-wheeled cart for goods, also came from Old Northern French about the beginning of the 14th century [3] (probably derived from the Late Latin carro, a car [4]); it is also used for railway carriages and in the US ...
The Overland Trail was famously used by the Overland Stage Company owned by Ben Holladay to run mail and passengers to Salt Lake City, Utah, via stagecoaches in the early 1860s. Starting from Atchison, Kansas, the trail descended into Colorado before looping back up to southern Wyoming and rejoining the Oregon Trail at Fort Bridger.
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Narrow covered wagon used by west-bound Canadian settlers c. 1885 Painting showing a wagon train of covered wagons. A covered wagon, also called a prairie wagon, whitetop, [1] or prairie schooner, [2] is a horse-drawn or ox-drawn wagon used for passengers or freight hauling.
The modern Oil City Iron Works plant grew from a small machine shop and foundry started in Corsicana, Texas in 1866 by John Winship (1826–86) to make parts for his cotton gin. He sold the operation in 1886 to businessmen Joseph Huey (1827–1904), James Garitty (1842–1925), and J. E. Whiteselle (1851–1915), who named it the Corsicana ...
Phoenix Carriage Works – rival carriage builder established in the 1840s next to Maple Villa by English immigrant Henry R. Wales (1822–1905) who learned the trade in the United States; located next to 159 Main Street North, the company stopped making carriages after 1915 and the business closed in 1923 after death of son-in-law Levi Webber [8]