The Carriage Trade.The Carriage Trade carriage trade n. Wealthy patrons or customers, as of a store. Noun 1. carriage trade - trade from upper-class customers Thomas A. Kinney The Johns Hopkins University Johns Hopkins University, mainly at Baltimore, Md. Johns Hopkins in 1867 had a group of his associates incorporated as the trustees of a university and a hospital, endowing each with $3.5 million. Daniel C. Press 2715 North Charles Street Charles Street is the name of a north-south street in the city center of Boston, Massachusetts. It begins in the north at Leverett Circle, where it intersects Cambridge Street and Storrow Drive, and gives its name to the Charles/MGH station of the MBTA. , Baltimore, MD 21218-4363 080187946-9 $49.95 1-800-537-5487 www.press.jhu.edu Meticulously researched and impressively written, The Carriage Trade: Making Horse-Drawn Vehicles In America by Thomas A. Kinney (Assistant Professor of History, Bluefield College Bluefield College is a small Christian college in Bluefield, Virginia, in Tazewell County, Virginia. It has about 850 students. The school was founded by the Baptist General Association of Virginia in 1922. , Virginia), is part of the outstanding Johns Hopkins University Press "Studies in Industry and Society" series. Professor Kinney offers a comprehensive and superbly organized history of the transportation manufacturing industry that preceded the coming of the automobile from its beginnings in American shops down to the final conference in 1926 of the Carriage Builders National Association which marked the triumph of the horseless Horse´less a. 1. Being without a horse; specif., not requiring a horse; - said of certain vehicles in which horse power has been replaced by electricity, steam, etc.; as, a horseless carriage or truck s>. carriage over that of its horse-drawn predecessor. Informed and informative, The Carriage Trade is an impressive and seminal work of original scholarship enhanced with extensive notations, and is especially recommended for inclusion into an academic library's American History Studies reference collection and the supplemental reading list for students of America's involvement in an evolving transporation industry. |
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