Kinney, Thomas A.

The Carriage Trade; Making Horse-Drawn Vehicles in America

Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004. First edition. Hardcover. 381p, several ills. and charts. Light shelfwear and soil to jacket. Very good / good. Item #32947

Excellent, very informative history of America's "forgotten industry"--the development of the carriage making trade, its early industrialization, manufacture of specialty parts, influence of fashion and taste, and finally its response to the automobile. With much reference to Brewster and Studebaker. In the publisher's series Studies in Industry and Society. (In print at $60.95).

Price: $40.00