Pullman (car or coach)
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Pullman is the term for railroad dining cars, lounge cars, and especially sleeping cars that were built and operated by the Pullman Company (founded by George Pullman) from 1867 to December 31, 1968.
Railway dining cars in the U.S. and Europe were operated by the Pullman Company; lounge cars were operated by the Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits in France, and the British Pullman Car Company in Great Britain.
Other uses
- The nickname Pullman coach was used in some European cities for the first long (four-axle) electric tramcars whose appearance resembled the Pullman railway cars and that were usually more comfortable than their predecessors. Such coaches (Template:Langx) ran in Kyiv from 1907[1][2] and in Odessa from 1912.[3]
- In the 1920s, tramcars nicknamed Pullmanwagen in German ran in Leipzig, Cologne, Frankfurt and Zürich.[4]
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- In 1963, the luxurious Mercedes-Benz 600 was introduced, with a range including a long wheelbase limousine version called Pullman. Later, stretched versions of regular Mercedes-Benz S-Class cars were also called Pullman.
- In Greek and Italian, the word "pullman" is used to refer to a coach bus. In Greek, it would be spelled "πούλμαν".
- In Arabic, the word "pullman" is used to refer to a coach bus in Syria. In Arabic, it would be spelled "بولمان".
- In Latin America, pullman may refer to a luxury bus as well as to a railroad sleeping car.
- A Pullman loaf is a type of long, square bread originally developed to be baked in the small kitchens of Pullman rail cars.
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See also
- Starlight Express, a train musical in which two characters are modeled on a Pullman.
- Template:Slink, Railway Coach roof design following the Pullman American influence.
Citations
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- ↑ Stefan Mashkevich. Pullman, the first four-axle car in Kyiv
- ↑ Ю.Ю. Струк (ред.). Киевский трамвай за сорок лет (1892–1932). Киевский коммунальный трамвайный трест, 1933, p. 63 (in Russian)
- ↑ История Одесского трамвая (in Russian)
- ↑ Hans Bodmer. Das Tram in Zürich, 1928 bis 1962. p. 11 (in German)
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General and cited references
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- Template:Welsh-Pullman
External links
- The Pullman Project
- Canadian National Railways Sleeping Car No. 1683 St. Hyacinthe—photographs and short history of a Sleeping Car built in 1929.
- Chicago Historical Society's Pullman website
- Pullman Prototypes—Pantagraph (Bloomington, IL newspaper)