Pullman Company

Variant names
Dates:
Active 1903
Active 1999

Biographical notes:

York County, Pa., plant, which produced automobiles, also known as Pullman Motor Car Company.

From the description of Records, 1903-1999. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70974944

Manufacturer of railroad sleeping and passenger cars founded by George M. Pullman; incorporated in 1867 as Pullman's Palace Car Company; name changed to Pullman Company in 1899; Pullman Incorporated formed 1927 with Pullman Company and Pullman Car & Manufacturing Corp., becoming its principal subsidiaries; Pullman Company sold to a group of railroads in 1947.

From the description of Historic Pullman Foundation archives, 1831-[ongoing]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70951884

From the incorporation of the Pullman's Palace Car Company in 1867 to the acquisition of Wagner Palace Car Company in 1899, Pullman systematically acquired most of the significant sleeping car operations in the United States.

It also established a subsidiary firm in Great Britain, and it moved into the manufacture of cars and rail and car equipment. In 1924, the vast corporation, having consolidated its sleeping car operations into a virtual monopoly, expanded its freight car construction capacities with the acquisition of the Haskell and Barker Car Company.

From the description of Subsidiary and acquired company records, 1865-1940 (bulk 1865-1921). (Newberry Library). WorldCat record id: 32461529

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Subjects:

  • Advertising
  • Advertising
  • Advertising
  • Advertising
  • Audio-visual materials
  • Automobile industry and trade
  • Automobiles
  • Chairs
  • Chief executive officers
  • Company towns
  • Consolidation and merger of corporations
  • Directors of corporations
  • Employees
  • Film strips
  • Financial statements
  • Furniture, Victorian
  • Hospital trains
  • Labor unions
  • Mediation and conciliation, Industrial
  • Motion pictures
  • Porters
  • Pullman cars
  • Pullman cars
  • Pullman cars
  • Pullman cars
  • Railroad accidents
  • Railroad conductors
  • Railroad passenger cars
  • Railroads
  • Railroads
  • Railroads
  • Railroads
  • Railroads
  • Railroads
  • Railroads
  • Railroads
  • Railroads in motion pictures
  • Seating (Furniture)
  • Sleeping cars (Railroads)
  • Sleeping cars (Railroads)
  • Sound recordings
  • Subsidiary corporations
  • Tables
  • Upholstered furniture
  • World War, 1914-1918
  • Wicker furniture
  • World War, 1939-1945

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Places:

  • United States (as recorded)
  • Pullman (Ill.) (as recorded)
  • Illinois--Chicago (as recorded)
  • Great Britain (as recorded)
  • United States (as recorded)
  • United States (as recorded)
  • Pullman (Chicago, Ill.) (as recorded)
  • Missouri--Saint Louis (as recorded)
  • United States (as recorded)
  • United States (as recorded)
  • Illinois--Pullman (as recorded)
  • United States (as recorded)
  • Industries--Missouri--Saint Louis (as recorded)
  • Illinois--Chicago (as recorded)
  • Illinois--Chicago (as recorded)
  • Pennsylvania--York County (as recorded)
  • United States (as recorded)
  • Chicago (Ill.) (as recorded)

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