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The Cincinnati Car Company or Cincinnati Car Corporation was a subsidiary of the Ohio Traction Company. It designed and constructed interurban cars, streetcars (trams) and (in smaller scale) buses. It was founded in 1902 in Cincinnati, Ohio. In 1928, it bought the Versare Car Company. The company was among the first to make lightweight cars.
Cities with hilly terrain such as Cincinnati and San Francisco began adopting cable cars, because they were faster and more reliable than horses. The first cable car routes in Cincinnati were on Gilbert Avenue, Mount Auburn and Vine Street. [4] Cable cars require that the car be pulled by a constantly running cable hidden under the street. [3]
Tootsietoy is a manufacturer of die cast toy cars and other toy vehicles which was originally based in Chicago, Illinois. Though the Tootsietoy name has been used since the 1920s, the company's origins date from about 1890. An enduring marque, toys with the Tootsietoy name were consistently popular from the 1930s through the 1990s.
The company owned the 61.62-mile (99.17 km) line from Cincinnati to Dayton (including the Germantown branch), plus 5.6 miles (9.0 km) of street railways in Hamilton. Financial difficulties led that syndicate to sell the company to a rival syndicate, controlled by Randal Morgan , W. Kesley Schoepf , and Hugh J. McGowan .
The Red Devil was a high-speed interurban streetcar built by the Cincinnati Car Company for the Cincinnati and Lake Erie Railroad (C&LE) in 1929–1930. They saw service throughout Ohio in the 1930s. After the failure of the C&LE in 1939 they saw service with the Cedar Rapids and Iowa City Railway (CRANDIC) and the Lehigh Valley Transit Company ...
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The Anchor Buggy Company was an American buggy manufacturer in Cincinnati, Ohio from 1886 to 1917. After 1917, it operated as the Anchor Top and Body Company till 1927. [1] The Anchor Carriage Company also had a short-lived automotive branch called the Anchor Motor Car Company (1910—1911). [2]
Cincinnati Street Railway (CSR) was the public transit operator in Cincinnati, Ohio, from 1859 to 1952. The company ceased streetcar operations and was renamed Cincinnati Transit Company. [1] The company was founded in 1859 and was one of several operators. The Cincinnati Consolidated Railway merged with CSR in 1880: Passenger Railroad of ...