Silk City Diners was a division of the Paterson Wagon Company, later known at Paterson Vehicle Company, established by Everett Abbott Cooper and based in Paterson, New Jersey, which produced about 1,500 diners from 1926 until 1966. Each was tagged with the year and order in which it was built; for example, 5607 would be the seventh diner manufactured in 1956. Several have been listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP).
NRHP and other extant diners
1941 Silk City, Gilmore Car Museum, Hickory Corners, MI
The Diner, Horseheads, New York
Fezz's Diner, Coudersport, Pennsylvania
Miss Albany Diner
Roadside Diner, Wall, New Jersey
Village Diner, Red Hook, New York
Kims Classic Diner Sabina, Ohio
Deligan's Diner (formerly the Blue Tone Diner), Silk City #4824. Formerly in Peekskill , NY; now in private hands in Massachusetts. Silk City Diner, Lounge, and Garden, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Tic Tock Diner, Clifton, New Jersey Delta Diner, Delta, Wisconsin Biscuits and Barbecue, Mineola, NY Park Dinor, Lawrence Park, Pennsylvania Baby's Burgers & Shakes, State College, Pennsylvania, Silk City #3071 Country Girl Diner, Chester, Vermont Doyle's, Selbyville, Delaware Route 30 Diner, Ronks, Pennsylvania