Jewett Car Company

A sketch of a car supplied by the Jewett Car Company and fitted with a trolley pole to connect with the overhead lines.

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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 (40,000 m²) 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.

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, built in 1913, 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.
• A Jewett interurban car, London and Port Stanley Railway Car 8 built in 1915, is located and operational at the Halton County Radial Railway in Milton, Ontario.

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)

External links

• Car 130
• Car 162
• L&PSR Car 8