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Steel Car Company -- Robbins Cylindrical Steel Car Company: (from www Steel Car Company)
The ill-fated Steel Car Company was founded at Boston, Massachusetts, about 1884/85, but never got good traction.
The assets of the Robbins Cylindrical Steel Car Company were acquired by Byron A. Atkinson,
a well-to-do Boston furniture dealer, who had some background as a machinist, and as a furniture repairman,
which no doubt gave him expertise in furnishing the car's elegant interior.
The cylindrical car, as it was generally called, was
shown at the 1893 Columbian Exposition in Chicago.
Although almost $40,000 had been spent on it (close to $1 million in today’s buying power),
when the exposition closed, it was abandoned on the fairgrounds and sold by the firm that dismantled the Exposition.
Previously, Perky had organized an exposition, to be called the National Railway, Electric and Industrial Exposition,
more popularly known as the “New Era Exposition.”
The “New Era Exposition” was set up on the grounds of the Steel Car Company, with the western portion of its building,
which was two stories tall, as the main hall of the exposition.
But in 1889 a fire of undetermined origin swept through the main building of the exposition,
which was also the Steel Car Company’s shops building.
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