. The Street railway journal . s, 7 ins.; height, bottom of sill to top of trolley plank, 8 ft. ins.;height from step to platform, 13 ins. Aprii,, 1896.] STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. 255 The Works of a Large Car Company. The Wason Manufacturing Company is one of the oldest estab-lishments in the United Stales engaged in the manufacture of began with the building of freight cars by T. W. Wason in1845. Car building of all kinds was then in its infancy and passengerwork was only another form of coach or omnibus building. It is and extends on both sides of the Connecticut Valley Railroad.
. The Street railway journal . s, 7 ins.; height, bottom of sill to top of trolley plank, 8 ft. ins.;height from step to platform, 13 ins. Aprii,, 1896.] STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. 255 The Works of a Large Car Company. The Wason Manufacturing Company is one of the oldest estab-lishments in the United Stales engaged in the manufacture of began with the building of freight cars by T. W. Wason in1845. Car building of all kinds was then in its infancy and passengerwork was only another form of coach or omnibus building. It is and extends on both sides of the Connecticut Valley Railroad. It isabout seventy acres in extent and the company occupies about seven-teen acres. When the shops were built this land was supposed to beample for all possible contingencies, but even this generous provisionhas not been altogether suflicient. The works were laid out by Mr. Fisk, v/ho with the generalmanager, W. H. Iaige, made a study of most of the shops then inexistence. Through the center of the plot of land runs a transfer. WORKS OF THE WASON MFG. CO. said that independence of his employers political ideas was theturning point in determining Mr. Wasons career. He lost a goodposition, settled in Springfield, and taking a contract for a car on oneof the local roads, now the Connecticut River road, had his busi-ness career settled. From 1846 when the firm was T. & C. Wason to1853 when the firm of T. W. Wason & Company was establishedthere were great improvements in the works. At that time, GeorgeC. Fisk became interested in the establishment, and for manv rears
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