Wagon-Making in the United States During the Late-19th Through Mid-20th Centuries: A Study of the Gruber Wagon Works at Mt. Pleasant, Pennsylvania

by Kube, Paul A.
ISBN: 9780939923977
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This is perhaps the best available description of the tools, materials, technology, and process of wagon-making in the US during the latepre-automotive period. The featured centerpiece of this book is amasters thesis completed in 1968 at Millersville College (nowUniversity), Millersville, Pennsylvania, by Paul A Kube. Titled A Studyof the Gruber Wagon Works at Mt Pleasant, Pennsylvania, this thesisdescribes the content, structure, and functioning of the Gruber WagonWorks as that business existed in the middle part of the 20th century -a rare late-surviving representative of an industry that had, at one time, been essential to the transportation needs of the agrarian and earlyindustrial national econom
  • Format: Trade Paperback
  • Author: Kube, Paul A.
  • ISBN: 9780939923977
  • Condition: Used
  • Dimensions: 8.98 x 0.57
  • Number Of Pages: 264
  • Publication Year: 2005
Language: English