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Magor Car Corporation The by Edward Kaminski W/ dust jacket
Magor Car Corporation The by Edward Kaminski
Hard cover with dust jacket
Copyright 2000
200 pages
Contents:
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Preface and Acknowledgements
Dedication
Introduction (by Richard H. Hendrickson)
The History of Magor Car Corporation
Export Railcars
Domestic Railcars
Dump Cars
Associated Railcar Parts
Complete Production List, 1925 to 1968
Selected Drawings
Index
The Magor Car Corporation by Edward S. Kaminski
A significant railcar builder throughout much of the twentieth century, the Magor Car Corporation was located in northern New Jersey at Clifton. It had its origins in a partnership founded in 1899 by Basil Magor and Robert Wonham, which led in 1902 to a manufacturing operation called the Wonham-Magor Engineering Works.
In the first part of the century, the company concentrated on export railcars, aided by its proximity to the port of New York. Basil's brother, Robert Magor, also became associated with the company. In 1910 it became the Magor Car Company, and in 1917 the Magor Car Corporation; among its major stockholders was J.P. Morgan.
In 1914, Magor's first freight cars for revenue use on an American railroad were built, and such sales grew steadily thereafter, though export cars continued as the company's mainstay for some years. In 1918, Magor was among the many firms called upon by the United States Railroad Administration to build its orders for 100,000 standard freight cars.
During World Wars I and II and during the Korean conflict, Magor was called on to build thousands of export cars for military needs, and was also a principal builder of cars for Europe under the Marshall Plan. In 1959, Magor built its first aluminum-bodied covered hopper cars, which were the first to be placed in U.S. revenue service, and went on to build more than 5000 aluminum cars.
Magor's sale in 1964 to Fruehauf Corporation marked many changes in its activities, and declining sales during the 1960s led to its closure in 1973.
Magor was an important builder of American freight cars, though not one of the larger builders. Its history is a significant part of United States railroad history.
The Magor Car Corporation built many types of railcars in addition to its best-known product, the widely-used air dump cars. But there was much more to Magor than that. Numerous orders from domestic U.S. railroads for conventional cars were built from the 1920s through the 1960s, supplementing Magor's substantial business in export railcars, particularly its expertise in sugar cane cars. What is not as well known is Magor's pioneering contribution to aluminum freight cars, particularly covered hoppers, during the 1960s. Though not among the largest American builders of railcars, Magor was nevertheless a significant contributor to the national freight car fleet.
Car builder historian Ed Kaminski has assembled a broad and intriguing perspective on this New Jersey company's history, spanning its lifetime,1899-1973. In addition to several hundred photographs, nearly all of them never before published, advertising materials and catalog information make this a fascinating presentation.
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