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 Collection
Identifier: MC 1606

Millville Traction Company records

Dates

  • 1893 - 1955

Scope and Contents

Boxes 1 and 2 are comprised of legal and financial documents of a company (of which George Wood was President and D.C. Lewis Treasurer and General Manager) that ceased business in 1923, including records (c. 1893-1900) of the Millville Rapid Transit Company (organized 1892) that it absorbed in 1900. Also present are records (1893-1894) of the South Jersey Traction Company (organized 1893; George Wood, President; Walter H. Bacon, Secretary and Treasurer). A small number of documents pertaining to the Millville Manufacturing Company are intermixed with these records and there may be a few extraneous nineteenth century land papers included, as well.

Box 3 consists of an inspection report (December 9, 1911) concerning the observed behavior of the company's conductors as well as a letter (January 4, 1913) concerning the company's relationship with the Pittsburgh-based Westinghouse Traction Brake Company.

Box 4 is comprised of retained copies of annual reports submitted to the Board of Public Utility Commissioners of the State of New Jersey.

Extent

1.25 Cubic Feet (two manuscript boxes and one half-sized manuscript box)

Language of Materials

English

Author
Stephen Bacchetta
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