St. Louis Car Company Records
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Descriptive Summary
Repository: University Archives, Department of Special Collections, Washington University Libraries,One Brookings Drive, Campus Box 1061, St. Louis, MO 63130, Telephone: (314) 935-5444 or (314) 935-9730, Fax (314) 935-8320,
e-mail: spec@wumail.wustl.edu, website: http://library.wustl.edu/units/spec/archives
Creator: St. Louis Car Company.
Title: St. Louis Car Company Records.
Dates: 1887-1977.
Quantity: 54 linear feet, 161 oversized tubes, and 15 oversized drawers.
Historical Note
The St. Louis Car Company was formed in April of 1887, to manufacture and sell streetcars and other kinds of rolling stock of street and steam railways. In succeeding years the company built automobiles, including the American Mors, the Skelton, and the Standard Six. A division of the company produced aircraft such as the Cardinal. During the two world wars, the company manufactured gliders, trainer, Alligators, flying boats, and dirigible gondolas. Among their most sucessful products were the Birney Safety Cars and the PCC Cars. The Car Company disbanded in 1973. For more information on the history of the company, see Andrew D. Young and Eugene Provenzo, The History of the St. Louis Car Company (Howell North Books 1978).
Arrangement
The collection is in six series, based on the type of material.
Scope and Contents Note
Finding aids describing the collection contents are available in .PDF format. ( Tips on opening PDF files when using FireFox.) Links to each are listed below.
- Series 1: Publicity materials, arranged alphabetically by subject.
- Series 2: Specifications, arranged by type of vehicle
- Series 3: Job books and cost data, arranged chronologically.
- Series 4: General office files, including material on PCC cars and wholly owned subsidiaries such as the St. Louis Aircraft Company. This is by no means a complete office file of the Car Company. In addition, users should be aware that our collection contains no personnel files from the company.
- Series 5: Photographs and negatives of cars, trucks, and other products produced by the company, arranged chronologically (by job order number).
- Series 6: Drawings of cars produced by the company, arranged in rough chronological order
Restrictions on access
No restrictions on access
Restrictions on use
Users of the collection must read and abide by the Rules for the Use of University Archives Materials. Users of the collection who wish to use items from this collection, in
whole or in part, in any form of publication (as defined in the form)
must sign and submit to the Washington University Archives a hard copy of the Notification of Intent to Quote from or Publish University Archives Materials form.
All publication not covered by fair use restricted to those who have permission of the copyright holder.
Preferred form of citation
St. Louis Car Company Records, University Archives, Department of Special Collections, Washington Univeristy Libraries. (St. Louis, Missouri, USA)
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