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By 1919, Wilson Foundry & Machine Company, Detroit Weather Proof Body Company and Pontiac Drop Forge Company were some of the diverse property owners. [4] [5] General Motors ownership of the site began with its acquisition of Rapid Motor Vehicle Company and its plant at 25 Rapid Street in 1909. The Rapid Motor Vehicle facility became Plant 1.
Share certificate issued by the J. G. Brill Company, issued on April 11, 1921 A 1903 Brill-built streetcar on a heritage streetcar line in Sintra, Portugal in 2010. The J. G. Brill Company manufactured streetcars, [1] interurban coaches, motor buses, trolleybuses and railroad cars in the United States for nearly 90 years, hence the longest-lasting trolley and interurban manufacturer.
English: Plan of the layout of the 22 acre (8.9 hectare) Gorton Foundry workshops of Beyer, Peacock and Co. Ltd, Manchester, showing the locomotive manufacturing processes undertaken in the various buildings.
Layout of the Gorton Foundry workshops of Beyer, Peacock and Co. Ltd The Gorton Foundry in 1870. Beyer and Peacock started building their Gorton Foundry in 1854 two miles east from the centre of Manchester at Openshaw on a 12-acre site, on the opposite (south) side of the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway (MS&LR) line from Peacock's previous works.
In 1921, Fageol became the first company to build a bus from the ground up. [3] The new-style bus was initially called "Safety Bus", [4] and the goal was to build a bus that was resistant to overturning when cornering. It had a wide track, and was lower to the ground for ease of entry and exit.
Collins Industries is an American bus manufacturer headquartered in South Hutchinson, Kansas.Best known for production of yellow school buses, the company produces buses for multiple applications; all bodies designed by the company have been produced for cutaway van chassis.
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Designed by Manchester City Architects Department under G. Noel Hill, [3] and completed in 1942, [4] the garage was a pioneering example of its type of construction. It is located on Harling Road, off Sharston Road in the Sharston district of Wythenshawe.