John Stephenson Company

[1] John Stephenson invented the first streetcar to run on rails, building this in 1832, for the New York and Harlem Railroad.

In the latter part of the 19th century, the company was a major builder of streetcars, constructing some 25,000 cars in the period 1876–1891 alone,[1] including ones for export.

Among the foreign ones were the Toronto Street Railways, Montreal Street Railway Company, the Halifax Street Railway, Mexico City's Empresa de los Ferrocarriles del Distrito Federal,[2] Lisbon’s CCFL (Carris),[3] and Caracas' Tranvía Caracas and Tranvía Bolívar.

In that year, it completed the construction of a "large factory" on a 117-acre (47 ha) plot of land, The New York Times reported.

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