Brill

E1029653

defunct company rolling stock manufacturer streetcar manufacturer

Brill is the commonly used name for the J.G. Brill Company, a historic American manufacturer best known for producing streetcars, interurban cars, and other railway vehicles in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

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Label	Occurrences
Brill canonical	1

Statements (46)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	defunct company ⓘ rolling stock manufacturer ⓘ streetcar manufacturer ⓘ
alsoKnownAs	Brill NERFINISHED ⓘ Brill Company NERFINISHED ⓘ
areaServed	Asia NERFINISHED ⓘ Europe ⓘ North America ⓘ South America NERFINISHED ⓘ
city	Philadelphia ⓘ
country	United States of America ⓘ surface form: United States
era	electric streetcar era ⓘ
foundedBy	George Martin Brill NERFINISHED ⓘ John George Brill NERFINISHED ⓘ
hasType	private company ⓘ
headquartersLocation	Philadelphia, Pennsylvania NERFINISHED ⓘ
inception	1868 ⓘ
industry	railway vehicle manufacturing ⓘ
locatedIn	Philadelphia ⓘ surface form: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
mergedInto	American Car and Foundry Company NERFINISHED ⓘ
namedAfter	John George Brill NERFINISHED ⓘ
notableFor	export of electric railway vehicles worldwide ⓘ production of interurban railway cars ⓘ production of streetcars ⓘ
operatedIn	early 20th century ⓘ late 19th century ⓘ
originalName	J.G. Brill & Son NERFINISHED ⓘ
product	buses ⓘ electric railway cars ⓘ interurban cars ⓘ railway coaches ⓘ streetcars ⓘ trolley buses ⓘ trolley cars ⓘ
significantPeriod	1890s ⓘ 1900s ⓘ 1910s ⓘ 1920s ⓘ
specialization	electric traction rolling stock ⓘ street railway equipment ⓘ
state	Pennsylvania ⓘ
status	defunct ⓘ
transportMode	bus ⓘ interurban rail ⓘ trolleybus ⓘ urban rail transit ⓘ

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Brill (under license in some forms) → alsoKnownAs → Brill ⓘ

subject surface form: J.G. Brill Company