The Carriage Trade: Making Horse-Drawn Vehicles in America

by Thomas A. Kinney

Co-Winner of the 2005 Hagley Business History Book Prize given by the Busines History Conference.

In 1926, the Carriage Builders' National Association met for the last time, signaling the automobile's final triumph over the horse-drawn carriage. Only a decade earlier, carriages and wagons were still a common sight on every Main Street in America. In the previous century, carriage-building had been one of the largest and most dynamic industries...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801879469
• ISBN13: 9780801879463
• Release Date: October 2004
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 381 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.5" x 9.6"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher