4-511: 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 , United States. The company was a short-lived electric streetcar builder. It was located at 4500 North Second Street. It was bought out by St. Louis Car Company in 1903. This United States rail–related article
8-400: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . American Car Company The American Car Company was a streetcar manufacturing company based in St. Louis , Missouri , United States. It was one of the country's leading streetcar builders during the heyday of streetcar operation. The company was founded in 1891 by William Sutton and Emil Alexander, who had previously founded
12-654: 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 . The American Car Company was a builder of electric powered streetcars. ACC was bought out by the J. G. Brill Company of Philadelphia in 1902. However, Brill continued to operate the American Car Co. under its own name until 1931, when it
16-576: Was reorganized as J. G. Brill of Missouri. In 1915, American Car built the very first Birney -type trolley, the prototype of a new design then known as the "Safety Car", and went on to build more Birney cars than any other manufacturer. The Fort Collins Municipal Railway , in Colorado, and the Fort Smith Trolley Museum , in Arkansas, are examples of operations where preserved Birney cars built by
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