Pullman Incorporated
1867 George Mortimer Pullman formed Pullman's Palace Car Co.
1870 Acquired the Detroit Car & Manufacturing Co.
1872 George Mortimer Pullman purchased two-thirds of the capital stock of The Erie & Atlantic Sleeping Coach Co., giving him control of the sleeping-car service between Chicago and New York.
1873 Pullman entered an operating contract with the Midland Railway. Six cars were built at the Detroit shops and shipped disassembled in 1874. This venture was unsuccessful as the demand for the cars was not great. The assets were sold to Pullman Company, Ltd. (the "English Pullman") about 1906
1880 Albert Benton Pullman was a partner in the Palace Car Co.[1]
1900 Corporate name changed to The Pullman Company.
1927 Pullman Inc. was incorporated in Delaware.
1944 Pullman Inc acquired the M. W. Kellogg Co of New Jersey, a leading engineering and construction firm specializing in oil refining and chemical processing.
1945 Pullman-Standard Manufacturing Co. was the successor to Pullman's Palace Car Co, The Pullman Co, Pullman Car and Manufacturing Corp. (Illinois) and Pullman Car & Manufacturing Corp. (Delaware).
1947 By federal court order, The Pullman Co., the sleeping car company, was acquired by a group of railroads.
1947 Pullman Finance and Properties Co. was incorporated in Delaware as a wholly-owned subsidiary of Pullman Inc.
1947 Pullman Inc. purchased the Power Ballaster Co.
1977 Incorporation of Pullman Kellogg Construction Ltd
1981 Pullman Swindell was teamed with The Rust Engineering Company, the sixth largest engineering firm in the USA.
1981 Pullman Kellogg Construction Ltd was renamed Kellogg Construction Ltd
1985 Pullman acquired Peabody International Corp.
1996 Tenneco of Greenwich, CT., completed the buyout of Pullman Co. to gain a larger stake in the auto parts industry.
See Also
Sources of Information
- ↑ 1880 census
- [1] Pullman museum