Kenworth Coinage Traditional Cache
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Pacific Car & Foundry
Railway Steel & Supply Company
Seattle Car Manufacturing Company
Seattle Car & Foundry Company
Pacific Car & Foundry had its beginnings at Seattle about 1901, when William Pigott set up the Railway Steel & Supply Company. (Whether it was Railway Steel & Supply or Railway & Steel Supply is not clear. The PACCAR corporate biography itself uses both names interchangeably.)
As capacity improved, business improved, and soon capitalization of the company was increased to $250,000 (the equivalent of roughly $5 million in today’s buying power). A 120-acre site was purchased near Renton, and construction began on a new, more modern factory in the summer of 1907.
In August of 1917, the company merged with its biggest west coast competitor, the contracting firm of Twohy Brothers Company of Portland, and emerged as the Pacific Car & Foundry Company. The merger was an uneasy one, for the Twohy brothers and William Pigott did not see eye-to-eye on company finances. Nevertheless, it now gave Pacific Car & Foundry plants in both Renton and Portland.
The company was acquired 31 March 1924 by the American Car & Foundry Company as part of its national expansion. William Pigott approved the deal, which was done at least partly to solve financial problems of the Twohy brothers. Pacific Car & Foundry would be a wholly-owned subsidiary of AC&F, but continue to do business under its own name. While continuing rail car production, it expanded its product line to include steel bridges and buses. But its profits steadily declined.
During the 2nd World War, Pacific Car had a number of defense contracts, and cast huge panels of steel and armor for more than 900 Sherman tanks. In 1945, the company moved into the truck business when it acquired the Kenworth Motor Truck Corporation.
In 1972, the company’s name was changed to PACCAR. The Renton plant, which still made rail cars, became a division and was known as Pacific Car & Foundry, specializing in refrigerator cars. But in the 1970s the rail car business slowed as the trailer-truck business made up most of PACCAR’s business, and by 1984 the company was out of the rail car business.
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