Pullman Company
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La Pullman Palace Car Company, est une société américaine, fondée en 1862 par George Pullman à Chicago, qui construisit des wagons de chemin de fer jusque dans les dernières décennies du XXe siècle. Pullman inventa le concept des wagon-lits qui portèrent son nom jusque dans les années 1980. La société fut plusieurs fois réorganisée et rebaptisée, en 1900, elle devient la The Pullman Co., en 1924, la Pullman Car & Manufacturing Co. et enfin, en 1934, la Pullman-Standard Car Manufacturing Company, jusqu'en 1982.
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- Joe Welsh et Bill Howes, Travel by Pullman : a century of service, St. Paul, MN : MBI Pub., 2004. (ISBN 9780760318577)
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