Preston Workers Inside The Preston Car and Coach. The Preston Car Company was a Canadian manufacturer of streetcars and other railway equipment, founded in 1908. The company was located in the town of Preston. Preston sold streetcars and parlour cars to local transport operators including the Grand River Railway, the Toronto Railway Company and Toronto Civic Railways and the Hamilton Street Railway. The company also sold a number of its distinctive ‘Prairie-style’ cars in 1911 and 35 "Big" Preston's in 1913. The fine workmanship and artistic craftsmen woodwork made the Preston Cars very desirable. The division was purchased by Pullman and later sold to Philadelphia-based J. G. Brill Company in 1921, and the Preston plant closed in 1923. It burned down. Only a few Preston-built cars now remain, most of them in the collection of the Halton County Radial Railway museum and some parlour style cars are still being used on excursion steam train adventures.
Preston Workers Inside The Preston Car and Coach.
The Preston Car Company was a Canadian manufacturer of streetcars and other railway equipment, founded in 1908. The company was located in the town of Preston. Preston sold streetcars and parlour cars to local transport operators including the Grand River Railway, the Toronto Railway Company and Toronto Civic Railways and the Hamilton Street Railway. The company also sold a number of its distinctive ‘Prairie-style’ cars in 1911 and 35 "Big" Preston's in 1913. The fine workmanship and artistic craftsmen woodwork made the Preston Cars very desirable. The division was purchased by Pullman and later sold to Philadelphia-based J. G. Brill Company in 1921, and the Preston plant closed in 1923. It burned down. Only a few Preston-built cars now remain, most of them in the collection of the Halton County Radial Railway museum and some parlour style cars are still being used on excursion steam train adventures.