Preston Car Company

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Preston Car Company was a builder of streetcars and other railway equipment, founded in 1908. The company was located in Preston, Ontario (now part of the City of Cambridge). Preston sold streetcars to transport operators including the local Grand River Railway, the Toronto Railway Company and Toronto Civic Railways (the predecessors of today's Toronto Transit Commission), and a number of its distinctive 'Prairie-style' cars to operators in Alberta.

The company was sold to Philadelphia-based J.G. Brill and Company in 1921, and Preston plant closed in 1923. Only a few Preston-built cars now remain, most of them in the collection of the Halton County Radial Railway museum.

Contents 1 Product 2 See also 3 Clients 4 Reference

[edit] Product

• Birney Car
• radial car for Toronto Suburban Railway
• DE-DT M - later TTC Class F cars
• Peter Witts

[edit] See also

• J.G. Brill and Company
• Canada Car and Foundry
• Ottawa Car Company

[edit] Clients

• Toronto Transportation Commission
• Hamilton Street Railway

[edit] Reference

• Preston Car and Coach Company