Wagon-Making in the United States
During the Late 19th Through
Mid-20th Centuries
A Study of the Gruber Wagon Works at Mt. Pleasant, Pennsylvania

Paul A. Kube with Contributions by Clayton E. Ray
and Cathy L. Wegener

This is perhaps one of the best available descriptions of the tools, materials, technology, and process of wagon-making in the US during the late pre-automotive period. The featured centerpiece of this book is a masters thesis completed in 1968 by Kube. This thesis describes the content, structure, and functioning of the Gruber Wagon Works as that business existed in the middle part of the 20th century – a rare late-surviving representative of an industry that had, at one time, been essential to the transportation needs of the agrarian and early industrial national economy. Contributions by Ray and Wegener provide an introduction to the significance of the Kube thesis, a brief history of wagon-making in the United States, a review of the relocation and management of the Gruber Wagon Works as an interpretive center during and after the mid-1970s, a compilation of surviving production records of the Gruber Works, and a biographical sketch of Paul Kube.

264 pages. 6 x 9. Over 100 photos. Soft cover. © 2005. ISBN: 9780939923977.
Order Number: VAP270. Price: $22.95

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