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However, after about 12 cars were shipped the importing company failed. The price in 1974, now with a 1500cc Triumph engine had risen to £2487. By 1977 110 cars had been built. [2] As of 1992, the open-top Albany featuring a 1500 cc SC engine was being built for export only. The company closed in 1997.
The Albany was a British car made in London from 1903 to 1905. Albany Manufacturing Co. Ltd made both petrol and steam cars, the steamers designed by Frederick Lamplough, who had originally built a shaft-driven steamer in 1896. Better known as the Lamplough-Albany, it sported two engines coupled by cranks at right angles and a super-heated coil ...
Unlike a direct sale of raw milk for consideration, a shareholder pays a one-time fee in exchange for her undivided interest in the herd. This is the purchase agreement or the bill of sale . In addition to the bill of sale, the shareholder pays a monthly boarding fee (or "agistment fee") that covers the farmer's cost for labor and maintenance ...
Rail transport of milk peaked in 1931 when the Official Railway Equipment Register listed 2174 railway-owned milk cars and 480 cars owned by shippers. Most railway-owned milk cars were made of wood; but the Erie Railroad built over two hundred steel cars in the 1930s, and fifty steel cars delivered to B&M in 1958 were the last milk cars built ...
Albany, New York, United States: Products: Automobiles: The ABC was a light car which planned, in 1922, to sell for $300, but which never went into production. [1 ...
Farms became larger operations that shipped their products to cities in their regions on railroad. With the advent of refrigeration and strict food safety laws, fresh unadulterated milk could easily be purchased by all classes. [2] [3] Today, dairy farming is concentrated in Upstate New York.
The United States dairy herd produced 84.2 billion kilograms (185.7 billion pounds) of milk in 2007, [6] up from 52.9 billion kilograms (116.6 billion pounds) in 1950, [7] yet there were only about 9 million cows on U.S. dairy farms—about 13 million fewer than there were in 1950. [7]
A rotary milking parlor at a modern dairy facility in Germany Dairy farm near Bangor, Wisconsin. Dairy farming is a class of agriculture for the long-term production of milk, which is processed (either on the farm or at a dairy plant, either of which may be called a dairy) for the eventual sale of a dairy product.