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Dearborn No Pay Car at Atlantic City trade show

  • Circa 1910

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Postcard with view of two unidentified individuals seated in the Dearborn "No Pay Car," an electrically-lighted wheel chair used to market the products and services of the Dearborn Drug and Chemical Works during the annual Master Car Builders' and Master Mechanics' Conventions in Atlantic City, New Jersey. Founded in 1887, the Dearborn Drug and Chemical Works (later Dearborn Chemical Company) was a corporate ancestor of BetzDearborn, Incorporated best known for manufacturing water treatment chemicals for use in boilers, cooling towers, and steam locomotives.

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  • 5.5 in. H x 3.5 in. W
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  • (On verso) "Even the natives of Atlantic City who are used to seeing strange sights, stood on the edge of the Boardwalk Wednesday night and gazed with amazement on the peregrinations of an electrically lighted wheel chair which made irregular journeys to the Apollo Theatre, the hotels and the cafes. The chair was elaborately decorated with foliage and flowers and festooned with myriads of small incandescent lamps. During the early part of the evening it served as a carry-all for the ladies only, but later the police report that it was engaged in the less gallant but more utilitarian work of helping night owls to their rooms. The superintendent of transportation in charge of the Dearborn No Pay Car was McConnaughy, of the Dearborn Drug and Chemical Works - From Electric Railway Journal Oct. 14, 1910."
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  • Box 15, Folder 38

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Dearborn Chemical Company. “Dearborn No Pay Car at Atlantic City Trade Show,” circa 1910. BetzDearborn, Incorporated Records, Box 15, Folder 38. Science History Institute. Philadelphia. https://digital.sciencehistory.org/works/736665530.

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