Jewett Car Company

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The Jewett Car Company was an early 20th century American industrial company that manufactured street cars.

The company was founded in 1893 in Jewett, Ohio, where its first factory was located. In 1904, the company relocated from Jewett to a 10 acre site along South Williams Street in Newark, Ohio, but maintained the original name. The facility soon expanded to become one of Newark's largest employers. Among its customers was the city of San Francisco, California, which purchased several street cars from Jewett. The company produced more than 2,000 wood-and-steel street cars, shipping them to 26 states and Canada. The Jewett Car Company went out of business in 1919 when the automobile began replacing mass transit. [ [http://books.google.com/books?id=CCfSk4WMDeoC&dq=jewett+car+company&printsec=frontcover&source=web&ots=siV3sWKR8F&sig=ciCvtkczAd9LNKaOpk1SJStAAuc From Small Town to Downtown: The history of the Jewett Car Company] ]

The most notable cars that are still running today are San Francisco Municipal Railway's Car 130 and Car 162, which were built in 1914. A Jewett interurban car, Tidewater Southern Car 200, is located at the Western Railway Museum in Rio Vista, Solano County, California, in unrestored condition. At Rio Vista is an operating all wood interurban, a beautifully restored Southern Car Company coach.

Products

*Type "B" Iron Monster for San Francisco
*Milan and Norwalk Electric Railway cars
*Wooden rapid transit cars for the South Side Elevated Railroad, Metropolitan West Side Elevated Railroad, Northwestern Elevated Railroad - Chicago, IL
*Wooden interurban cars for the Aurora Elgin and Chicago Railroad (later the Chicago Aurora and Elgin Railroad)

References

External links

* [http://www.streetcar.org/mim/streetcars/fleet/antique/130/index.html Car 130]
* [http://www.streetcar.org/mim/streetcars/fleet/historic/162/index.html Car 162]