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Safety Car Heating and Lighting Company
| Name | Safety Car Heating and Lighting Company |
| Ortssitz | Jersey City (N.J.) |
| Straße | Erie Street |
| Art des Unternehmens | Gasbeleuchtungsbau |
| Anmerkungen | Stellt Gasbeleuchtung, System Pintsch, her. Hauptverwaltung: Rector Street, New York City. Fabrik ab 1889: 167 First Street in 1889, dann Grove und Tenth Streets; ab 1898: Erie und Eleventh Streets |
| Quellenangaben | [Jersey City of to-day (1907) 106] |
| Zeit |
Ereignis |
| 05.05.1887 |
Gründung |
| 1889 |
Bezug der ersten Fabrik in der 167 First Street |
| 1898 |
Bezug einer neuen Fabrik (drei dreistöckige Gebäude) in der Erie and Eleventh Streets |
| Produkt |
ab |
Bem. |
bis |
Bem. |
Kommentar |
| Eisenbahn-Gasbeleuchtung |
1889 |
Beginn |
1909 |
bekannt |
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| ZEIT | um 1907 |
| THEMA | Beschreibung |
| TEXT | The Safety Car Heating and Lighting Company, which has its large storehouse at Erie and 1 1th and 12th Streets,
was organized May 5, 1887. The general offices are at 2 Rector Street, New York City, and the officials are: Robert M. Dixon, president ; Randolph Parmly, vice-president; D. W. Pye, vice-president; C. H. Wardell, treasurer and assistant secretary; I. P. Lawton, secretary and assistant treasurer. The phenomenal success of this company is best shown by the extensive use of its car heating equipments, and the almost universal adoption of Pintsch Gas as a car lighting medium throughout the United States and Canada. Realizing the advantageous shipping facilities offered by
Jersey City, the company located a small storage accommodation at No. 167 First Street in 1889. The need for more space made necessary the removal of the plant to Grove and Tenth Streets, where half a block was occupied, and in 1898 the enormous increase in business necessitated the occupation of the present plant at Erie and Eleventh Streets, where three three-story buildings were erected, taking in two-thirds of this block. The interiors of these
buildings have been fitted up to meet the requirements of a modern storehouse in which is stored much of the material required for the equipping of cars and the maintenance of the company's eighty-one Pintsch Gas supply plants in America. The history of this immense business is a repetition of the story of the small beginning. When the company first organized to introduce the Pintsch system started its work, the railway cars of the country were lighted, almost without exception, by the use of oil lamps which, while economical as far as the cost of oil was concerned, necessitated a large expense for maintenance and rep'acing of ruined carpets and upholstery. It meant vim and vigor in all departments of a good organization to so present its new light to the railroad interests as to secure for it even the small recognition which was at first accorded. So the early days in this company were not unlike those experienced by many another, but Pintsch light had winning qualities and the company an efficient staff of officials, so that each year brought a broader adoption of the system until it became, as it did about ten years ago, the almost universal standard for car lighting in the United States and more recently in Canada. The company has sold over 36,500 equipments in the United States, Canada and Mexico, and the system has been installed on over 165,000 cars throughout the world. But the Pintsch system of to-day is not the Pintsch system of twenty years ago. From a flat-flame lamp giving 33 candles - which represented a very great improvement over all oil lighting - there has been perfected a mantle lamp to give an illumination of 99.5 candle power. From the old flat-flame lamp, consuming 3.2 cubic feet per hour, there has been developed this mantle lamp consuming only 2.125 cubic feet per hour, and, withal, giving a three-fold greater illumination. From the severely plain fixture of twenty years ago there has been evolved, and made possible by new methods, fixtures of real artistic worth, in perfect keeping with modern interior car finishes. This company's axle-driven dynamo system of electric lighting, a product of sixteen years' experience, is now operating successfully on leading roads. In the heating department the company also has the same record for good work, 160 railroads having applied to 20,500 cars the following systems: Controllable direct steam and hot water, or where pressure is not desired, the Thermo-Jet system. |
| QUELLE | [Jersey City of to-day (1907) 106] |
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