Pullman (car or coach)

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 () ran in Kyiv from 1907 and in Odessa from 1912.

• In the 1920s, tramcars nicknamed Pullmanwagen in German ran in Leipzig, Cologne, Frankfurt and Zürich.

• In some Western European countries in the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s, some especially luxurious motor coaches were sometimes referred to as Auto-Pullmans.
• 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.

Gallery

|File:Pullman car exterior.jpg|The first Pullman sleeping car |File:5-Lettering "Pullman" Californian Train Conventional Tourist Cars.tif| Lettering blueprint for Pullman sleeping car |File:Pullman 284 'Vera' at London Victoria.JPG|Former Brighton Belle Pullman carriage at London Victoria, now part of the Venice-Simplon Orient Express fleet |File:Вагон "Пульман".jpg|"Pullman" tramcar in Kyiv, 1930 |File:Royal Air Force in the Middle East, 1944-1945. CM5691.jpg|A Pullman bus of the Nairn Transport Company for the Damascus–Baghdad service

Citations

General and cited references

References

1. Stefan Mashkevich. [http://www.mashke.org/kievtram/pictures/gallery1.php?g=tram/pullman&l=en Pullman, the first four-axle car in Kyiv]
2. Ю.Ю. Струк (ред.). Киевский трамвай за сорок лет (1892–1932). Киевский коммунальный трамвайный трест, 1933, p. [http://www.mashke.org/kievtram/publications/book-1933/book1933-063.html 63] (in Russian)
3. [http://blogs.privet.ru/community/tram/38049098 История Одесского трамвая] (in Russian)
4. Hans Bodmer. ''Das Tram in Zürich, 1928 bis 1962''. p. 11 (in German)