American Car Company
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American Car Company was a streetcar manufacturing
company based in St. Louis, USA. It was founded in 1891 by William Sutton and Emil Alexander, who had previously founded the Laclede Car Company
in 1883 also in St. Louis, and had both got their start working in the streetcar business at St. Louis' horsecar
manufacturer the Brownell Car Company
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The American Car Company was a builder of electric powered streetcars. ACC was bought out by the J. G. Brill and Company of Philadelphia in 1902. However, Brill continued to operate the American Car Co. under its own name until 1931. More Birney
-type trolleys were built by American Car Co. than any other manufacturer.
The Fort Collins Municipal Railway
in Colorado and the Fort Smith Trolley Museum
in Arkansas are examples of operations still running these cars today.
Manufacturing
Manufacturing is the use of machines, tools and labor to produce goods for use or sale. The term may refer to a range of human activity, from handicraft to high tech, but is most commonly applied to industrial production, in which raw materials are transformed into finished goods on a large scale...
company based in St. Louis, USA. It was founded in 1891 by William Sutton and Emil Alexander, who had previously founded the Laclede Car Company
Laclede Car Company
Laclede Car Company was founded in 1883 by William Sutton and Emil Alexander, who later founded the American Car Company and worked at Brownell Car Company in St. Louis, Missouri, USA....
in 1883 also in St. Louis, and had both got their start working in the streetcar business at St. Louis' horsecar
Horsecar
A horsecar or horse-drawn tram is an animal-powered streetcar or tram.These early forms of public transport developed out of industrial haulage routes that had long been in existence, and from the omnibus routes that first ran on public streets in the 1820s, using the newly improved iron or steel...
manufacturer the Brownell Car Company
Brownell Car Company
Brownell Car Company was a horsecar and streetcar builder in St. Louis, Missouri.Originally founded as Brownell and Wight Car Company by Frederick Brownell and Andrew Wight in 1875 as a horsecar builder, the company was renamed in 1879....
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The American Car Company was a builder of electric powered streetcars. ACC was bought out by the J. G. Brill and Company of Philadelphia in 1902. However, Brill continued to operate the American Car Co. under its own name until 1931. More Birney
Birney
A Birney or Birney Safety Car is a type of streetcar that was manufactured in the United States in the 1910s and 1920s. The design was small and light and was intended to be an economical means of providing frequent service at a lower infrastructure and labor cost than conventional streetcars...
-type trolleys were built by American Car Co. than any other manufacturer.
The Fort Collins Municipal Railway
Fort Collins Municipal Railway
The Fort Collins Municipal Railway operated streetcars in Fort Collins, Colorado, from 1919 until 1951. Since 1984, a section of one of the former routes has been in operation as a seasonal heritage streetcar service, under the same name, running mainly on spring and summer weekends...
in Colorado and the Fort Smith Trolley Museum
Fort Smith Trolley Museum
The Fort Smith Trolley Museum is a railroad museum in Fort Smith, Arkansas.Located at 100 South 4th Street, the museum collection includes four streetcars which operated in municipal service in Fort Smith, an open streetcar, as well as a Frisco steam locomotive.The museum also operates a heritage...
in Arkansas are examples of operations still running these cars today.