The carriage trade : making horse-drawn vehicles in America / Thomas A. Kinney.

By: Material type: TextSeries: Studies in industry and societyPublication details: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, c2004.Description: xi, 381 p. : ill. ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 0801879469 (alk. paper)
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • HD 9709.5.U62 K56 2004
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Contents:
Rich men's vehicles at poor men's prices : the development of a trade and its products -- Knights of the draw knife : the craft origins of horse-drawn vehicle manufacture -- From shop to factory : the industrialization of a trade -- The coming of parts : specialty manufacturing in the wagon and carriage industry -- An empire of taste : the Brewster Carriage dynasty -- A wagon every six minutes : the Studebaker Brothers Manufacturing Company -- From craftsman to assembler? : industrialization and the wagon and carriage worker -- That damned horseless carriage : American carriage makers respond to the automobile.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 303-361) and index.

Rich men's vehicles at poor men's prices : the development of a trade and its products -- Knights of the draw knife : the craft origins of horse-drawn vehicle manufacture -- From shop to factory : the industrialization of a trade -- The coming of parts : specialty manufacturing in the wagon and carriage industry -- An empire of taste : the Brewster Carriage dynasty -- A wagon every six minutes : the Studebaker Brothers Manufacturing Company -- From craftsman to assembler? : industrialization and the wagon and carriage worker -- That damned horseless carriage : American carriage makers respond to the automobile.

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