The carriage trade : making horse-drawn vehicles in America /

Kinney, Thomas A., 1968-

The carriage trade : making horse-drawn vehicles in America / Thomas A. Kinney. - Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, c2004. - xi, 381 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. - Studies in industry and society .

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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Carriage industry--History.--United States

HD 9709.5.U62 / K56 2004