what is a coal dealer in the year 1866?

Answer 1

Someone who sold bags of coal to the public - originally delivered via horse and cart and later on flatbed lorries - people would pay off the amount owed weekly. Also called coal merchants.

Answer 2

Coal dealers for retail sales of coal, coke, cement and salt were a common sight in towns and cities across North America until after WW2. Over the next decade or so most slowly went out of business. Some dealers survived by switching to the sale of heating & fuel oils & lubricants. They added appropriate storage tanks & sheds, bought new trucks & kept up with the changing times. Coal sheds were often part of grist mill, grain elevator or lumber and building supplies businesses since they could make use of the same railway siding. The prototype photos below show the final years of one such shed in Harriston, Ontario which stood until the late 1990s serving as a general storage building

Answer 3

Mark Twain - Mark Twain, a Biography Part 2 1866-1875. ... there were stopping at this time Jervis Langdon, a wealty coal-dealer and mine-owner of Elmira, ...


http://mark-twain.classic-literature.co.uk/mark-twain-a-biography-part-2-1866-1875/ebook-page-27.asp


There are still coal dealers in the uk, coal merchants, in fact only over decade or so ago my uncle was a coal dealer in Greenock in Scotland and delivered bags of coal to households, the coal was stored in a coal bunker and my grandmother used it for her coal fire, something which is now almost extinct( door to door coal merchants).

Answer 4

Just Google it!

"coal dealer 1866"

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