Jerry O'Mahony Company
After operating his own dining car Jeremiah Mahoney ventured into the construction of dining cars with John Hanf in 1914 in Bayonne, New Jersey

The origins of the diner can be traced to Walter Scott, a part-time
    pressman and type compositor in Providence, Rhode Island. Around 1858
    when Scott was 17 years old he supplemented his income by selling
    sandwiches and coffee from a basket to newspaper night workers and
    patrons of men's club rooms. By 1872 business became so lucrative that
    Scott quit his printing work and began to sell food at night from a
    horse-drawn covered express wagon parked outside the Providence Journal
    newspaper office. In doing so, Walter Scott unknowingly inspired the
    birth of what would become one of America's most recognized icons -- the
    diner."

THE AMERICAN DINER HISTORY

THE DINER WAS BUILT IN THE EARLY 1950'S IN ELIZABETH NEW JERSEY

BY A COMPANY CALLED 'THE JERRY O'MAHONY DINING CAR COMPANY AND AFTER COMPLETION WAS MOVED TO CAMBRIDGE MASSACHUSETTS WHERE IT TRADED AS 'MURPHYS DINER' UNTIL IT CLOSED AND WAS BROUGHT TO ENGLAND

THE ABOVE PHOTOGRAGH WAS TAKEN WHEN THE DINER WAS IN STORAGE IN PEABODY ALSO IN MASSACHUSETTS BEFORE BEING SHIPPED TO ENGLAND

THANKS TO THE AMERICAN DINER MUSEUM

http://www.americandinermuseum.org/site/

THANKS ALSO TO RICHARD GUTMAN

 Jerry O'Mahony, Inc, Elizabeth, NJ, 1913-1956, built many different style diners and was a leader in diner production for several decades.  The oldest surviving O'Mahony's diner Max's Grill in Harrison New Jersey,US. features barrel roof, bright red porcelin exerior, and cream-colored lettering.   Mickey's Dining Car , c. 1937, in St. Paul, MinnesotaUS, is the only O'Mahony listed on the National Register of Historic Places and features a railroad-car-like monitor roof.  Following the trend of other diner builders, O'Mahony introduced stainless steel exteriors in the late 1940's which predominated until the company went out of business in 1956.  In the early 50's, several larger double-unit O'Mahony's were produced including the L-shaped Harris Diner  in East Orange, New Jersey,US.  One of the last diners built by this manufacturer was the exceptionally long  Mayfair Diner in Northeast Philadelphia,US

ABOVE INFORMATATION COURTESY OF THE AMERICAN DINER MUSEUM USA

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