James Cunningham, Son and Company

Company logo on the Cunningham automobile.

James Cunningham, Son and Company was an American business based in Rochester, New York, initially manufacturing horse-drawn coaches, it eventually went on to develop and produce motorized automobiles from 1908 onward. The Cunningham company was a pioneer in automobile production credited with being one the world's first developers and manufacturers of automobiles and one of the first car-makers to produce an American V8 engine automobile, in 1916.[1] The company also developed the M1 Armored Car (T24), tested by the Ordnance Department in 1931.[2][3] For instrumentation use, James Cunningham, Son and Company made high-speed, very-long-life crossbar switches with physically small mechanical parts which permitted faster operation than telephone-type crossbar switches.

The firm dates back to 1838, when James Cunningham joined the carriage firm Kerr, Cunningham, And Company.<[4]

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  1. ↑ Janet Wolff (2003). AngloModern: Painting and Modernity in Britain and the United States. Cornell University Press. pp. 58–. ISBN 978-0-8014-8742-2. Retrieved 11 September 2012.
  2. ↑ George F. Hofmann (3 July 2006). Through Mobility We Conquer: The Mechanization of U.S. Cavalry. University Press of Kentucky. pp. 294–. ISBN 978-0-8131-3757-5. Retrieved 11 September 2012.
  3. ↑ Herbert C. Banks (20 January 2003). 1st Cavalry Division: A Spur Ride Through the 20th Century from Horses to the Digital Battlefield. Turner Publishing Company. pp. 9–. ISBN 978-1-56311-785-5. Retrieved 11 September 2012.
  4. ↑ William Farley Peck (1908). History of Rochester and Monroe county, New York: from the earliest historic times to the beginning of 1907. The Pioneer publishing company. pp. 803–. Retrieved 11 September 2012.

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