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  • Open Daily: 10am - 10pm
    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
From Small Town to Downtown: A History of the Jewett Car Company, 1893-1919

From Small Town to Downtown: A History of the Jewett Car Company, 1893-1919

Graebner, James H.
Brough, Lawrence A.

Hardcover

Series: Railroads Past and Present

Business GeneralAutomobilesTrains

ISBN10: 0253343690
ISBN13: 9780253343697
Publisher: Indiana Univ Pr
Published: Apr 6 2004
Pages: 272
Weight: 1.69
Height: 0.85 Width: 7.24 Depth: 10.26
Language: English

The Jewett Car Company was born in Akron, Ohio, in the heyday of the electric railway boom in the 1890s. The company gained an excellent reputation for its elegant, well-built wooden cars for street railway companies, interurban lines, and rapid transit service. Cities large and small used Jewett cars. Many interurban lines employed the graceful, arch-windowed, wood interurban that Jewett was famous for. Competition from automobiles and from larger car builders such as J. G. Brill and the St. Louis Car Company signaled the beginning of the end for Jewett. The company was offered the opportunity to produce munitions for World War I, but refused when a German nationalist banker who was a major source of financing for Jewett refused to allow the company to do anything that would harm Germany. As a result, the Jewett Car Company died, but the reputation of their product survives to this day.

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