Barney and Smith Car Company
- Barney and Smith Car Company
Barney and Smith Car Company was railcar manufacturer in Dayton, Ohio.
Founded un 1849 by Eliam Eliakim Barney and Ebenezer Thresher as Thresher, Packard & Company, it changed names as partners came and went:
* 1850 E. Thresher & Company
* 1854 Barney, Parker & Company - after Caleb Parker joined the firm
* 1867 The Barney & Smith Manufacturing Company - joined by E. E. Barney, Preserved Smith, J. D. Platt, E. J. Barney and A. E. E. Stevens
* 1892 The Barney & Smith Car Company
It faced challenges from bigger railcar makers in the late 1890s and early 1900s and went into receivership in 1913 and finally disappeared in 1921.
Products
* railway passenger cars
* electric street railways
* interurban railcars
* wooden cars for Metropolitan West Side Elevated Railroad in Chicago
External links
* [http://www.daytonhistorybooks.citymax.com/page/page/1478213.htm A History of the Barney & Smith Car Company]
* [http://www.ohiohistorycentral.org/entry.php?rec=850 Barney and Smith Company]
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