James A. Trimble

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James A. Trimble's Tram Car Factory

James A. Trimble (* 1847 in New York City , † after 1869) was an American inventor and businessman who founded the tram factory named after him in 1869. His six-story factory building was at 218 East 28th St. in New York. Trimble made carts for horse trams , cable trams , electric trams, and tram mail cars . Trimble has received several patents as an inventor.

The Brooklyn & NY Railway Supply Co. in Elizabeth (New Jersey) (1895-1897) was created through the merger of the JW Fowler Car Company and the James A. Trimble Company. Trimble was president of the new company and relocated its machinery from New York to Elizabethtown, New Jersey . It was planned to produce 1,500 tram cars per year.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c Transit Journal, Volume 10. McGraw-Hill Publishing Company, Incorporated, 1894, pp. 62, 328.
  2. ^ A b Ian Arnold: Locomotive, Trolley, and Rail Car Builders: An All-time Directory. Trans-Anglo Books, 1965, pp. 15, 60.
  3. ^ The Street Railway Journal, Volume 10, No. 6 (June 1894), p. 107.
  4. ↑ 100 years of capital traction: The story of streetcars in the Nation's Capital by LeRoy O. King, Taylor Pub. Co., 1972.
  5. ^ Railway Car Builders of North America.
  6. ^ "A New Transit Company," Street Transit Journal, Vol. 12, No. 1 (Jan 1896), p. 71.
personal data
SURNAME Trimble, James A.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American inventor and businessman
DATE OF BIRTH 1847
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City
DATE OF DEATH after 1869