{"id":38405,"date":"2024-12-10T13:58:15","date_gmt":"2024-12-10T16:58:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/memoriaferroviaria.assis.unesp.br\/colecoes\/?post_type=tnc_col_9388_item&#038;p=38405"},"modified":"2025-02-02T18:22:07","modified_gmt":"2025-02-02T21:22:07","slug":"a-atuacao-do-holding-brazil-railway-company-no-brasil-1904-1920","status":"publish","type":"tnc_col_9388_item","link":"https:\/\/memoriaferroviaria.assis.unesp.br\/colecoes\/colecao-producao-mf\/a-atuacao-do-holding-brazil-railway-company-no-brasil-1904-1920\/","title":{"rendered":"A atua\u00e7\u00e3o do holding Brazil Railway Company no Brasil (1904-1920)."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Em 1904, chegou ao Brasil um grupo de empres\u00e1rios a fim de investirem e explorarem o transporte ferrovi\u00e1rio. Tiveram como principal representante Percival Farquhar, que desempenhou atividades que foram desde os servi\u00e7os p\u00fablicos, como distribui\u00e7\u00e3o de energia, at\u00e9 o transporte. Em 1906, o grupo cria a Brazil Railway Company, um holding, e assume a grande maioria das concess\u00f5es das ferrovias brasileiras. Suas atividades estavam concentradas principalmente no Sul e Sudeste do pa\u00eds. A administra\u00e7\u00e3o de Farquhar chegou at\u00e9 os anos de 1920, quando mudam a gest\u00e3o devido a uma crise econ\u00f4mica. A Brazil Railway Company tem caracter\u00edsticas peculiares: desenvolveu, al\u00e9m do transporte ferrovi\u00e1rio, a coloniza\u00e7\u00e3o e atividades extrativistas, como a explora\u00e7\u00e3o da madeira no Sul e carne bovina congelada. Nossa pesquisa tem por intuito estudar as atividades ferrovi\u00e1rias desse holding no Sul e Sudeste do pa\u00eds, entre os anos 1904 at\u00e9 1920. Utilizamos como fonte os documentos oficiais da pr\u00f3pria empresa, peri\u00f3dicos e Relat\u00f3rios Ministeriais, al\u00e9m de documenta\u00e7\u00f5es pessoais, como cartas e Of\u00edcios de Farquhar e outros membros do grupo. In 1904, a group of businessmen arrived in Brazil to invest and explore rail transport. Their main representative was Percival Farquhar, who performed activities ranging from utilities such as power distribution to transportation. In 1906, the group creates Brazil Railway Company, a holding company, and takes over the vast majority of Brazilian railroad concessions. Its activities were concentrated mainly in the South and Southeast of the country. Farquhar&#8217;s administration arrived until the 1920s, when management changed due to an economic crisis. The Brazil Railway Company has peculiar characteristics: it has developed, in addition to rail transportation, colonization and extractive activities, such as the exploitation of timber in the South and frozen beef. Our research aims to study the railway activities of this holding in the South and Southeast of the country, from 1904 to 1920. We use as source the official documents of the company itself, periodicals and Ministerial Reports, as well as personal documentation, such as letters and Crafts of Farquhar and other members of the group<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":40858,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","class_list":["post-38405","tnc_col_9388_item","type-tnc_col_9388_item","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tnc_tax_37089-portugues","tnc_tax_26723-assis","tnc_tax_23229-correa-lucas-mariani","tnc_tax_23229-oliveira-eduardo-romero-de","tnc_tax_23208-programa-de-pos-graduacao-em-historia","tnc_tax_22577-brazil-railway-company","tnc_tax_22577-empresa","tnc_tax_22577-estado","tnc_tax_22577-historia-ferrovia","tnc_tax_22577-politica","tnc_tax_3241-remanescencias-da-arquitetura-ferroviaria-em-minas-gerais"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/memoriaferroviaria.assis.unesp.br\/colecoes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tnc_col_9388_item\/38405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/memoriaferroviaria.assis.unesp.br\/colecoes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tnc_col_9388_item"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/memoriaferroviaria.assis.unesp.br\/colecoes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tnc_col_9388_item"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/memoriaferroviaria.assis.unesp.br\/colecoes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38405"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/memoriaferroviaria.assis.unesp.br\/colecoes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tnc_col_9388_item\/38405\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40856,"href":"https:\/\/memoriaferroviaria.assis.unesp.br\/colecoes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tnc_col_9388_item\/38405\/revisions\/40856"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/memoriaferroviaria.assis.unesp.br\/colecoes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/memoriaferroviaria.assis.unesp.br\/colecoes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}