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The United Electric Car Company was a tramcar manufacturer from 1905 to 1917 in Preston, Lancashire. ==History== The Electric Railway and Tramway Carriage Works was formed in 1897 registered on 25 April 1898 to acquire works at Preston, Lancashire. It was founded by two Scots, W. B. Dick and John Kerr. They formed a new company, English Electrical Manufacturing based in a new West Works on Strand Road, Preston in 1900, to build the electric motors for their trams.〔Made in Lancashire: a history of regional industrialisation, Geoffrey Timmins. 1998. P.198〕 In 1905 the Electric Railway and Tramway Carriage Works took over two other works, including G.F. Milnes & Co. in Hadley, Shropshire, the name being then changed to United Electric Car Co.〔 The Stock Exchange Year Book 1908〕 By 1914, the company employed around 2,000 people. They produced electrical equipment for tramways and railways and built over 8,000 tramcars, for service in the UK and abroad, including to the Buenos Aires tramways operated by the Anglo-Argentine Tramways Company.〔(Exhibieron la dupla histórica Preston para festejar el Bicentenario ) (Spanish) - EnElSubte, 26 May 2010.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「United Electric Car Company」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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