. Baltimore and Ohio employees magazine . rof his class who ever lived, and also one ofthe greatest salesmen. A proof of this isthat today more than 200 of his patents arestill alive. From the very start Brills poHcy was togive any town or any country whatever kindof car it wanted, provided it was a good carand would do its work. That sagaciousprinciple of meeting the demands of localor national prejudices has enabled the BrillCompany to market its cars literally fromGreenlands Icy Mountains to IndiasCoral Strand. It has built for Cape Town some giganticelectric cars. To far Northern Helsingfo
. Baltimore and Ohio employees magazine . rof his class who ever lived, and also one ofthe greatest salesmen. A proof of this isthat today more than 200 of his patents arestill alive. From the very start Brills poHcy was togive any town or any country whatever kindof car it wanted, provided it was a good carand would do its work. That sagaciousprinciple of meeting the demands of localor national prejudices has enabled the BrillCompany to market its cars literally fromGreenlands Icy Mountains to IndiasCoral Strand. It has built for Cape Town some giganticelectric cars. To far Northern Helsingfors inFinland it is dispatching a wholly difl^erenttype of smaller car, but a model of its kind. To Barcelona in Spain is going a huge cartotally unlike either of the other two. Atthe present moment the Company is con- ■structing cars for 20 different nations. And for 140 American cities the BrillCompany has been recently making awholly new kind of car called the safety car,which may change the entire character ofstreet railway The Safety Car—the most popular car being built today. Baltimore and Ohio Magazine, November, ig22 27 The main plant of The J. G. Brill Com-pany is at Sixty-second Street and Wood-land Avenue. But this $10,000,000 corporation—thatseems big compared with John GeorgeBrills $1,300 in 1868—has important sub-sidiary companies in Cleveland, Ohio,Springfield, Mass., and St. Louis, Mo. This Philadelphia plant covers about 30acres of ground. Here they can produce anew street car every working hour of the day. During its career of 52 years, the Brillshave turned out about 50,000 cars, which isa record unapproached by any other streetcar builders on earth. And they really make the cars at Brills,every part of them except the wheels andelectric motors. The biggest cars weighabout 30 tons, but the most popular carbeing turned out today is known as thesafety car, which weighs les« than a third ofthat. This is called a safety car because it isfool-pro
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