. The Street railway journal . sting. Five or six yearsago St. IvOuis began to be a great street car building center, and theLaclede, Brownell, St. Louis, and American Companies cars wereshipped in large numbers to all parts of the country. Naturallyenough, the car companies were drawn into the manufacture oftrucks, and naturally also, they appealed to the Missouri Car &Foundry Company to make the wheels for these trucks. This wasdone at first more as a matter of accommodation than with the ex-pectation that the street railway branch of the companys businesswould assume large proportions, but
. The Street railway journal . sting. Five or six yearsago St. IvOuis began to be a great street car building center, and theLaclede, Brownell, St. Louis, and American Companies cars wereshipped in large numbers to all parts of the country. Naturallyenough, the car companies were drawn into the manufacture oftrucks, and naturally also, they appealed to the Missouri Car &Foundry Company to make the wheels for these trucks. This wasdone at first more as a matter of accommodation than with the ex-pectation that the street railway branch of the companys businesswould assume large proportions, but before long the company beganto receive orders for wheels from all parts of the country, not onlyfrom those Western, Central and Southwestern vStates which looknaturally to St. Louisas a base of supplies, but even from the Atlan-tic and Pacific coasts. These orders were received with consider-able surprise, the companys officers never having made any attemptto reach street railway companies, and hardly understanding how it. with care and thoroughness, though it was for a long time a matterof doubt as to whether the general indisposition of street railwaymanagers to discriminate between good and bad wheels would givethe company a chance to secure business in competition with othersin the field The compauj is fortunate in having at the head of its foundry aman who, through many years of experience with all kinds of irons,has come to understand the mixing of brands and the way to secureany desired results, to an extent surpassed by few iron founders in
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