Barney and Smith
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Barney and Smith Car Company was railcar manufacturer in Dayton, Ohio.
Founded un 1849 by Eliam Eliakim Barney and Ebenezer Thresher as Thresher, Packard & Company, it changed names as partners came and went:
- 1850 E. Thresher & Company
- 1854 Barney, Parker & Company - after Caleb Parker joined the firm
- 1867 The Barney & Smith Manufacturing Company - joined by E. E. Barney, Preserved Smith, J. D. Platt, E. J. Barney and A. E. E. Stevens
- 1892 The Barney & Smith Car Company
It faced challenges from bigger railcar makers in the late 1890s and early 1900s and went into receivership in 1913 and finally disappeared in 1921.
[edit] Products
- railway passenger cars
- electric street railways
- interurban railcars
- wooden cars for Metropolitan West Side Elevated Railroad in Chicago
