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J. G. Brill And Company
The J. G. Brill Company manufactured streetcars,Young, Andrew D. (1997). ''Veteran & Vintage Transit'', p. 101. St. Louis: Archway Publishing. interurban coaches, motor buses, trolleybuses and railroad cars in the United States for nearly 90 years, hence the longest-lasting trolley and interurban manufacturer. At its height, Brill was the largest manufacturer of streetcars and interurban cars in the US and produced more streetcars, interurbans and gas-electric cars than any other manufacturer, building more than 45,000 streetcars alone. The company was founded by John George Brill in 1868 in Philadelphia, as a horsecar manufacturing firm. Its large factory complex was located in southwest Philadelphia at 62nd St and Woodland Avenue, adjacent to the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad tracks. At its peak of operation, it was one of Philadelphias's largest employers. Over the years, it absorbed numerous other manufacturers of trolleys and interurbans, such as Kuhlman in Clevelan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John George Brill
John George Brill (German language, German: ''Johann Georg Brill'') (Kassel, Germany, May 31, 1817 – September 22, 1888) was a co-founder of J. G. Brill and Company, which, at its height, was the largest manufacturer of streetcars and interurban cars in the United States. In 1847, at the age of 30, he emigrated with his wife and two children from Germany to Philadelphia. For twenty years, he worked for Murphy and Allison. In 1868, with his son George Martin Brill, he founded the firm J. G. Brill & Son, which, in 1887, became J. G. Brill and Company. Death and interment Brill died from heart failure at the age of 71 in Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania on September 22, 1888, and was buried on September 25 at the West Laurel Hill Cemetery in Bala Cynwyd, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania."Return of a Death in the City of Philadelphia: Physicians Certificate and Undertaker's Certificate in Relation to the Deceased." Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Historical Society of Pennsylvania. Re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wason Manufacturing Company
The Wason Manufacturing Company was a maker of railway passenger coaches and streetcars during the 19th and early 20th century. The company was founded in 1845 in Springfield, Massachusetts by Charles Wason (1816-1888) and Thomas Wason (1811-1870).Mid-Continent Railway Museum. North Freedom, WI"Wason Manufacturing Company."''Builders of Wooden Railway Cars.'' Accessed 2011-01-18. Although the concept would later be popularized by the Pullman Company, Wason was the first to manufacture sleeping cars in America. Wason's earliest clients included the Michigan Southern Railroad (1846–1855), Alton Railroad, Central Railroad of New Jersey, and Boston and Maine Railroad, as well as foreign operators such as the State Railway of Chile, and Egyptian National Railways, providing the latter with 161 cars as well as an ornate state carriage for Sa'id of Egypt, the viceroy at that time. By 1867 the company had about 300 employees. The company made the first passenger coaches used on the Tr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philadelphia ACF-Brill Trolleybus 215 On Route 79 In 1978, Cropped
Philadelphia ( ), colloquially referred to as Philly, is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania and the sixth-most populous city in the United States, with a population of 1,603,797 in the 2020 census. The city is the urban core of the Philadelphia metropolitan area (sometimes called the Delaware Valley), the nation's seventh-largest metropolitan area and ninth-largest combined statistical area with 6.245 million residents and 7.379 million residents, respectively. Philadelphia was founded in 1682 by William Penn, an English Quaker and advocate of religious freedom, and served as the capital of the colonial era Province of Pennsylvania. It then played a historic and vital role during the American Revolution and Revolutionary War. It served as the central meeting place for the nation's Founding Fathers, hosted the First Continental Congress (1774) and the Second Continental Congress, during which the Founders formed the Continental Army, elected George ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Strafford Cars 165+168 Passing Bullet 204 At Bryn Mawr Station In 1968
Strafford may refer to: Places In the United States: * Strafford, Missouri, a city * Strafford, New Hampshire, a town * Strafford, Pennsylvania * Strafford, Vermont, a town * Strafford County, New Hampshire Other *Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford (1593–1641), politician impeached and executed in 1641 *Earl of Strafford, a title that has been created several times in British history *Stephen Strafford, British air marshal *Strafford (play), ''Strafford'' (play), written in 1837 by Robert Browning *Strafford Moss, musical theatre tenor See also *Stafford (other) *Stratford (other) {{disambig, geo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brill Model 75 Railcar (Pichi Richi Railway No
Brill may refer to: Places * Brielle (sometimes "Den Briel"), a town in the western Netherlands * Brill, Buckinghamshire, a village in England * Brill, Cornwall, a small village to the west of Constantine, Cornwall, UK * Brill, Wisconsin, an unincorporated community, US * Brill, Wuppertal, a quarter and town district, Germany Fiction * Brill brothers (Mervall and Descant), fictional characters from the Artemis Fowl book series * Brill (''Elfquest''), a fictional character in the comic Elfquest Scientific concepts * Brill tagger, an algorithm in artificial intelligence to detect grammatical structures * Brill–Noether theory, a theory of algebraic geometry * Brill–Zinsser disease, a type of epidemic typhus which recurs in someone after a long period of dormancy Companies * Brill Publishers, a Dutch international academic publisher * Brill Tramway, a former branch line of the Metropolitan Railway from Quainton Road to Brill * J. G. Brill Company, a defunct manufacturer of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
South Australian Railways
South Australian Railways (SAR) was the organisation through which the Government of South Australia built and operated railways in South Australia from 1854 until March 1978, when its non-urban railways were incorporated into Australian National Railways Commission, Australian National, and its Railways in Adelaide, Adelaide urban lines were transferred to the State Transport Authority (South Australia), State Transport Authority. The SAR's tracks were built to three rail gauges: broad gauge; narrow gauge; and from the 1980s, when gauge standardisation at last commenced, standard gauge. History Colonial period The first railway in South Australia was laid in 1854 between Goolwa, South Australia, Goolwa and Port Elliot, South Australia, Port Elliot to allow for goods to be transferred between paddle steamers on the Murray River and seagoing vessels. The Goolwa railway station, Goolwa station was built on the Wharf precinct, alongside the River Murray. The next railway ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Witt
The Peter Witt streetcar was introduced by Cleveland Railway commissioner Peter Witt (1869–1948) who led the transit agency from 1911 to 1915 and designed a model of streetcar known by his name that was used in many North American cities, most notably in Toronto, Buffalo, and Cleveland. Features This design was distinguished from other streetcars of the era by its use of the center door as an exit only, with a conductor stationed inside just in front of the door. Passengers could board through the front doors without waiting or paying; they could pay the conductor immediately and sit in the rear of the car (in the nicer seats), or wait in front and pay just before they exited. This had the effect of reducing the car's dwell time at stops, improving schedule times and increasing capacity. Many vehicles were later converted to pay-as-you-enter operation in order to reduce the number of staff needed, but they continued to be known as Peter Witt cars. History Witt completed the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Corporation
Convair, previously Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Corporation, was an American aircraft-manufacturing company that later expanded into rockets and spacecraft. The company was formed in 1943 by the merger of Consolidated Aircraft and Vultee Aircraft. In 1953, it was purchased by General Dynamics, and operated as their Convair Division for most of its corporate history. Convair is best known for its military aircraft; it produced aircraft such as the Convair B-36 Peacemaker and Convair B-58 Hustler strategic bombers, and the Convair F-102 Delta Dagger and Convair F-106 Delta Dart interceptors. It also manufactured the first Atlas rockets, including the rockets that were used for the crewed orbital flights of Project Mercury. The company's subsequent Atlas-Centaur design continued this success and derivatives of the design remain in use as of 2025. The company also entered the jet airliner business with its Convair 880 and Convair 990 designs. These were smaller than contempo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Montreal
Montreal is the List of towns in Quebec, largest city in the Provinces and territories of Canada, province of Quebec, the List of the largest municipalities in Canada by population, second-largest in Canada, and the List of North American cities by population, ninth-largest in North America. It was founded in 1642 as ''Fort Ville-Marie, Ville-Marie'', or "City of Mary", and is now named after Mount Royal, the triple-peaked mountain around which the early settlement was built. The city is centred on the Island of Montreal and a few, much smaller, peripheral islands, the largest of which is Île Bizard. The city is east of the national capital, Ottawa, and southwest of the provincial capital, Quebec City. the city had a population of 1,762,949, and a Census geographic units of Canada#Census metropolitan areas, metropolitan population of 4,291,732, making it the List of census metropolitan areas and agglomerations in Canada, second-largest metropolitan area in Canada. French l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Canadian Car And Foundry
The Canadian Car & Foundry Company, Limited, and from 1957 onwards the Canadian Car Company Limited, was a manufacturer of buses, railway rolling stock, forestry equipment, and later aircraft for the Canadian market. CC&F history goes back to 1897, but the main company was established in 1909 from an amalgamation of several companies and later became part of Hawker Siddeley Canada through the purchase by Avro Canada, A.V. Roe Canada in 1957. Today the remaining factories are part of Alstom after its acquisition of Bombardier Transportation completed in 2021. Press release from Alstom on the acquisition of Bombardier Transportation History Canadian Car & Foundry (CC&F) was established in 1909 in Montreal as the result of an amalgamation of three companies: * Rhodes Curry Company of Amherst, Nova Scotia, Amherst, NS - founded 1891 * Canada Car Company of Turcot, Quebec, Turcot, QC - founded 1905 * Dominion Car and Foundry of Montreal, Montreal, QC In 1911 the CC&F Board of directo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Interurban Press
Interurban Press was a small, privately owned American publishing company, specializing in books about streetcars, other forms of rail transit and railroads in North America, from 1943MacDougall, Kent (May 19, 1983). "Books Ring Bell With Devotees: Publisher Specializes in History of Trolleys". ''Los Angeles Times'', p. 1. until 1993.Ryll, Thomas (November 29, 1994). "Felida man tracks light rail" (profile of retired Interurban Press owner Mac Sebree). '' The Columbian'', p. A3. It was based in the Los Angeles area, and specifically in Glendale, California after 1976. Although its primary focus was on books, it also published three magazines starting in the 1980s, along with videos and calendars. At its peak, the company employed 10 people and generated about $2 million in business annually. Origins Originally named Interurbans, the company developed out of a mimeographed newsletter first distributed by its founder, Ira L. Swett, in 1943. The ''Interurbans News Letter'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mac Sebree
George McClelland Sebree III (August 26, 1932 – March 7, 2010), better known as Mac Sebree, was an American journalist, writer and publisher whose area of expertise was urban mass transit, particularly urban rail transit. He was also a businessman, being owner and president of the publishing company, Interurban Press, from 1975 until 1993.Ryll, Thomas (November 29, 1994). "Felida man tracks light rail" (profile of Mac Sebree, Felida being a neighborhood of Vancouver, Washington). '' The Columbian'', p. A3. In addition to writing and publishing historical material, he also followed – and regularly reported on – contemporary developments concerning rail transit, and by the 1990s he had become an expert on light rail in North America. Early life and education G. M. Sebree adopted the nickname "Mac" at an early age and went by the name Mac Sebree, both personally and professionally, for most of his life, only modifying this slightly in 1995, to G. Mac Sebree. G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
