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Philip I. Brown, carriage and buggy builder was born in 1838 in Rahway, New Jersey. Brown started out in the shops of Lawrence, Bradley & Co., and spent six more years at J.B. Brewster before opening his first shop back in his home town of Rah­way, NJ, in 1866. When the shop burned down in 1872, Brown moved to Staten Island and two years later, he opened a shop on Richmond Terrace, West New Brighton.

The P.I. Brown Carriage Company, circa 1866-1920, manufactured carriages, wagons, carts, contractor dumping wagons and other commercial vehicles. They also ran a successful carriage rental business and livery stable. The livery business eventually became the Rich­mond Storage Warehouse and Van Company, and the carriage works branched off into automobile sales and commercial bodies.

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For more information please read:

Marian Suman-Hreblay - Dictionary of World Coachbuilders and Car Stylists ISBN 8096897403

Daniel D. Hutchins - Wheels Across America: Carriage Art & Craftsmanship

Beverly Rae Kimes, Henry Austin Clark Jr. - Standard Catalog of American Cars 1805-1942

G.N. Georgano & G. Marshall Naul - The Complete Encyclopedia of Commercial Vehicles

Albert Mroz - Illustrated Encyclopedia of American Trucks & Commercial Vehicles

Dennis Miller - The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Trucks and Buses

Ed Strauss, Karen Strauss - Bus World Encyclopedia of Buses