Pressed Steel Car Company
Industry | Railcar manufacturing |
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Founded | 1899 |
Defunct | 1956 |
Headquarters | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States |
Key people | Charles T. Schoen, President |
The Pressed Steel Car Company was a builder of railroad cars and equipment based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, that was founded in 1899, and had facilities in Pittsburgh and Chicago. It operated until 1956.[1]
Before World War II
The Pressed Steel Car Company of Pittsburgh came into existence 17 February 1899 and was an amalgamation of the Schoen Pressed Steel Company, Pittsburgh, and the British company, the Fox Solid Pressed Steel Company, set up in 1889 in Joliet, 30 miles southwest of Chicago.[2][3]
In April 1899, it had three plants: The Schoen plant at Woods Run in Allegheny, Pennsylvania; the Fox steel plant on McCandless Avenue in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and the Fox steel plant in Joliet, Illinois. Approximately one month after forming, a deal was announced that the Pressed Steel Car Company would purchase all of its steel from the Carnegie Steel Company, and Carnegie would stop making cars.[4] At first the company only produced freight cars, but in 1903 it delivered 35 steel underframe passenger cars to the North Western Elevated Railway of Chicago, and then set up a shop just for passenger car manufacturing in less than two years.[4]
In 1909, the
Contribution to the U.S. war effort
Pressed Steel Car Company ranked 41st among United States corporations in the value of
After World War II
The company resumed railroad-car production after World War II, eventually diversifying into non-railway products and changing its name to U.S. Industries in 1954. In 1956, U.S. Steel purchased all remaining assets of the company.[13]
Officers
President | Charles T. Schoen |
1st Vice President | E.N. Dickerson |
2nd Vice President | Henry W. Oliver Jr. |
3rd Vice President | W.H. Schoen |
Secretary | W.O. Jacquette |
Treasurer | W.C. DeArmond |
General Manager | F.A. Schoen |
Sales Agent | J.B. Brady |
Notes
- ^ "Pressed Steel Car Company".
- ^ http://www.ironhorse129.com/RollingStock/builders/pressedsteel1.htm Pressed Steel Car Co
- ^ a b https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GOVPUB-RR-d2bc5238782c0b162e8bad2cd736d502/pdf/GOVPUB-RR-d2bc5238782c0b162e8bad2cd736d502.pdf
- ^ a b c "Pressed Steel Car Company". www.midcontinent.org.
- ^ http://www.library.pitt.edu/labor_legacy/PressedSteelStrike.htm Pressed Steel Strike
- ^ "16 F. Supp. 329 (W.D. Pa. 1936)".
- ^ Peck, Merton J. & Scherer, Frederic M. The Weapons Acquisition Process: An Economic Analysis (1962) Harvard Business School p.619
- ^ "M40 Gun Motor Carriage". Military Factory. Retrieved 29 March 2016.
- ^ Nielsen 2012, p. 4.
- ^ Nielsen 2012, p. 33.
- ^ Nielsen 2012, p. 3.
- ^ "Pressed Steel Car Company in World War Two". usautoindustryworldwartwo.com.
- ^ "Pressed Steel Car Company".
References
- Nielsen, Kenneth (2012). Pressed Steel: An American Company's Contribution to Victory in World War II. Bloomington, IN: AuthorHouse. ISBN 9781468550092.