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. Thomas Car Works of High Point, North Carolina in 1923 and 1924.

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. The reverser key on top of the controller cabinet works microswitches in the underfloor cabinet and the brake handle is a puny little device with a mechanical linkage to the PCC controller.

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. Thomas Car Works in High Point, North Carolina.

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. In 1916 Perley Thomas, chief engineer of streetcars at Southern Car Works in High Point, lost his job when economic hardships after World War I caused the company’s closing.

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. Governments thus invested mostly into bus networks.

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. Thomas Car Works and evolved over the years from a custom street car maker to a leading producer of a full-range of school and commercial bus bodies and transit-style bus chassis.

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. While Ellis was forced to quit as a result of a fire in April 1894, the Newburyport Car Manufacturing Company and Briggs flourished until shortly after the turn of the century when they started to encounter really stiff competition from such major New England builders as the Laconia (N.H.) Car Company Works, the Wason Manufacturing Company of Springfield, Mass.

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. An advertising poster dated January 1, 1880 showing 24 models proclaimed the BRIGGS CARRIAGE COMPANY was “the largest works in New England.” In 1880 its gross was $200, 000.00 (about $3 million in 1996 dollars); manufactured 1800 carriages and had 125 employees.