The New York Coach Maker S Magazine

Co-Winner of the 2005 Hagley Business History Book Prize given by the Busines History Conference. In 1926, the Carriage Builders' National Association met for the last time, signaling the automobile's final triumph over the horse-drawn carriage. Only a decade earlier, carriages and wagons were still a common sight on every Main Street in America. In the previous century, carriage-building had been one of the largest and most dynamic industries in the country. In this sweeping study of a forgotten trade, Thomas A. Kinney extends our understanding of nineteenth-century American industrialization far beyond the steel mill and railroad. The legendary Studebaker Brothers Manufacturing Company in 1880 produced a hundred wagons a day—one every six minutes. Across the country, smaller factories fashioned vast quantities of buggies, farm wagons, and luxury carriages. Today, if we think of carriage and wagon at all, we assume it merely foreshadowed the automobile industry. Yet., the carriage industry epitomized a batch-work approach to production that flourished for decades. Contradicting the model of industrial development in which hand tools, small firms, and individual craftsmanship simply gave way to mechanized factories, the carriage industry successfully employed small-scale business and manufacturing practices throughout its history. The Carriage Trade traces the rise and fall of this heterogeneous industry, from the pre-industrial shop system to the coming of the automobile, using as case studies Studebaker, the New York–based luxury carriage-maker Brewsters, and dozens of smallerfirms from around the country. Kinney also explores the experiences of the carriage and wagon worker over the life of the industry. Deeply researched and strikingly original, this study contributes a vivid chapter to the story of America's industrial revolution.

View From The Box .. Technical Education in the Carriaqe . Industry . Questions and Answers The Granger Homestead Letters to the Editor Henry Hooker & Co., Connecticut ' Sleigh-Rides in New Hampshire The Volante The Imperial A Step into the Past: Egypt's New Carriage Museum Museum . The Story of the "Hiawatha" The Diary of Dr. Ripley's Shay The Sidney Lapham Memorial Trophy . The Remington Carriage Collection . A Short-Turn Wagon Book Reviews

Mr. Lincoln's Carriages (a look at several vehicles connected to U.S. President Abraham Lincoln} by KEN WHEELING Conserving the Lincoln Carriage by BRIAN HOWARAD & DAVID Coaching in the Highlands reprinted from HARPER'S WEEKLY (1875) Cobb+Co Museum's Military Wagon /[how not to completely restore a WWI wagon} by ANDREW MCDonalD & JEFF POWELL

Features The Curricle 3 Winter Transportation 7 Lord Brougham's Good Idea 15 The Craft of the Wainwright: The Spring Maker 21 Leicester to London in Three Days 23 A Potpourri of Driving Hints 26 Departments The View from the Box 2 Memories Mostly Horsy 10 Tack Room Talk 13 Letters to the Editor 17 The Road Behind: The Sleigh 19 Book Reviews 27 The Carriage Trade 29