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Pullman (other)
Pullman may refer to: Places in the United States * Pullman, Chicago, Illinois *Pullman, Michigan * Pullman, Texas *Pullman, Washington *Pullman, West Virginia *Pullman Lake, a lake in Minnesota * Pullman neighborhood, in the city of Richmond, California Surname * Alberte Pullman (1920–2011), theoretical and quantum chemist, wife of Bernard * Alfred Pullman (1916–1954), a British soldier and airman * Bernard Pullman (1919–1996), theoretical and quantum chemist, husband of Alberte * Bill Pullman (born 1953), American actor * George Pullman (1831–1897), founder of the Pullman Company * Joe Pullman (1876–1955), Wales international rugby union player * Lewis Pullman (born 1993), American actor * Philip Pullman (born 1946), English writer * Simon Pullman (1890–1942), violinist and founder of the Warsaw Ghetto Symphony Orchestra Transport Road * Humber Pullman, a large automobile manufactured in central England between 1930 and 1954 * Mercedes-Maybach S600 Pullman ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pullman, Chicago
Pullman, one of Chicago's 77 defined community areas, is a neighborhood located on the city's South Side. Twelve miles from the Chicago Loop, Pullman is situated adjacent to Lake Calumet. The area known as Pullman encompasses a much wider area than its two historic areas (the older historic area is often referred to as " Pullman" and is a Chicago Landmark district and a National Monument. The northern annex historic area is usually referred to as "North Pullman"). The development built by the Pullman Company is bounded by 103rd Street on the North, 115th Street on the South, the railroad tracks on the East and Cottage Grove on the West. Since the late 20th century, the Pullman neighborhood has been gentrifying. Many residents are involved in the restoration of their own homes, and projects throughout the district as a whole. Walking tours of Pullman are available. Pullman has many historic and architecturally significant buildings; among these are the Hotel Florence; the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mercedes-Maybach
Maybach (, ) is a German luxury car brand that exists today as a part of Mercedes-Benz. The original company was founded in 1909 by Wilhelm Maybach and his son Karl Maybach, originally as a subsidiary of ''Luftschiffbau Zeppelin GmbH'', and it was known as ''Luftfahrzeug-Motorenbau GmbH'' until 1999. In 1960, Maybach was acquired by Daimler-Benz. The name returned as a standalone ultra-luxury car brand in 2002, sharing significant components with Mercedes-Benz cars. After slow sales, Maybach ceased to be a standalone brand by 2013, and it became (in 2015) a sub-brand of Mercedes-Benz, which is owned by the Mercedes-Benz Group. , Daimler produces an ultra-luxury edition of the Mercedes-Benz S-Class and Mercedes-Benz GLS-Class under the Mercedes-Maybach name. 1909–1940: Early history Wilhelm Maybach was technical director of the ''Daimler-Motoren-Gesellschaft'' (DMG) until he left in 1907. On 23 March 1909, he founded the new company, ''Luftfahrzeug-Motorenbau GmbH'' (lite ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pullman Hotels And Resorts
Pullman Hotels and Resorts is a French multinational upscale hotel brand owned by Accor. Pullman has 110 hotels and resorts in 33 countries in Europe, Africa, the Middle-East, Asia Pacific, Australia and Latin America. History Railroad origins The name Pullman was indirectly inspired by George Pullman, founder of the Pullman Company, a prosperous 19th-century, Chicago-based railroad manufacturer. The Pullman Company was famous for launching the first sleeping trains in the United States and developing upscale services for railroad travelers. Belgian Georges Nagelmackers traveled to the United States in 1867-1868 and came back with the plan to build the equivalent of the Pullman Company in Europe, the Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits (CIWL). The fast-growing railroad networks led the rail industry to invest in the construction and management of hotels alongside railroad tracks. In 1894, the CIWL created the Compagnie Internationale des Grands Hotels to manage its growi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pullman F
Pullman may refer to: Places in the United States *Pullman, Chicago, Illinois *Pullman, Michigan *Pullman, Texas *Pullman, Washington * Pullman, West Virginia * Pullman Lake, a lake in Minnesota * Pullman neighborhood, in the city of Richmond, California Surname * Alberte Pullman (1920–2011), theoretical and quantum chemist, wife of Bernard *Alfred Pullman (1916–1954), a British soldier and airman * Bernard Pullman (1919–1996), theoretical and quantum chemist, husband of Alberte * Bill Pullman (born 1953), American actor * George Pullman (1831–1897), founder of the Pullman Company * Joe Pullman (1876–1955), Wales international rugby union player * Lewis Pullman (born 1993), American actor * Philip Pullman (born 1946), English writer * Simon Pullman (1890–1942), violinist and founder of the Warsaw Ghetto Symphony Orchestra Transport Road * Humber Pullman, a large automobile manufactured in central England between 1930 and 1954 * Mercedes-Maybach S600 Pullman Guard, Ge ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pullman (band)
Pullman is an American, studio-only, folk and predominantly acoustic rock supergroup, formed in Chicago by Ken Brown, Curtis Harvey, Chris Brokaw, and Doug McCombs in the late 1990s. History Beginning as a collaboration between members of several notable 1990s rock bands, Pullman was formed in mid- to late 1997. The project stemmed from conversations between Ken Brown and Curtis Harvey during the recording sessions for Loftus' homonymous debut album and Rex's 1996 sophomore album ''C''. Ken Brown, ex-member of Tortoise and Gastr Del Sol, and Curtis Harvey, from Rex and The Curtis Harvey Band, were joined by Codeine drummer and Come guitarist Chris Brokaw and Eleventh Dream Day bassist Doug McCombs. The project is an amalgam between band and collective, a vessel - as its name indicates- for its members to release acoustic music that did not fit their other musical ventures, as evidenced by the fact that individual members had compositions suitable for Pullman dating back to 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pullman (architecture)
Pullman is an architectural term for a long, narrow space within a structure. It is most often used to refer to a small, two-wall kitchen ("a pullman kitchen") or, sometimes, a narrow hall. The word is derived from the narrow kitchens in the dining cars operated on passenger trains by the Pullman Company during the 19th and 20th centuries. Pullman kitchens are most common in apartment An apartment (American English), or flat (British English, Indian English, South African English), is a self-contained housing unit (a type of residential real estate) that occupies part of a building, generally on a single story. There are ma ...s, where space is limited, to minimize the kitchen's impact on living spaces. Architectural elements {{Architecturalelement-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pullman (car Or Coach)
In the United States, Pullman was used to refer to railroad sleeping cars that were built and operated on most U.S. railroads by the Pullman Company (founded by George Pullman) from 1867 to December 31, 1968. Other uses Pullman also refers to railway dining cars in Europe that were operated by the Pullman Company, or lounge cars operated by the Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits. Specifically, in Great Britain, ''Pullman'' refers to the lounge cars operated by the British Pullman Car Company. 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 ( rus, пульмановский вагон, pul'manovsky vagon) 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.Hans Bodmer. ''Das Tram in Z ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pullman Train (UK)
Pullman may refer to: Places in the United States *Pullman, Chicago, Illinois *Pullman, Michigan *Pullman, Texas *Pullman, Washington * Pullman, West Virginia * Pullman Lake, a lake in Minnesota * Pullman neighborhood, in the city of Richmond, California Surname * Alberte Pullman (1920–2011), theoretical and quantum chemist, wife of Bernard *Alfred Pullman (1916–1954), a British soldier and airman * Bernard Pullman (1919–1996), theoretical and quantum chemist, husband of Alberte * Bill Pullman (born 1953), American actor * George Pullman (1831–1897), founder of the Pullman Company * Joe Pullman (1876–1955), Wales international rugby union player * Lewis Pullman (born 1993), American actor * Philip Pullman (born 1946), English writer * Simon Pullman (1890–1942), violinist and founder of the Warsaw Ghetto Symphony Orchestra Transport Road * Humber Pullman, a large automobile manufactured in central England between 1930 and 1954 * Mercedes-Maybach S600 Pullman Guard, Ge ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pullman Strike
The Pullman Strike was two interrelated strikes in 1894 that shaped national labor policy in the United States during a period of deep economic depression. First came a strike by the American Railway Union (ARU) against the Pullman factory in Chicago in spring 1894. When it failed, the ARU launched a national boycott against all trains that carried Pullman passenger cars. The nationwide railroad boycott that lasted from May 11 to July 20, 1894, was a turning point for US labor law. It pitted the American Railway Union (ARU) against the Pullman Company, the main railroads, the main labor unions, and the federal government of the United States under President Grover Cleveland. The strike and boycott shut down much of the nation's freight and passenger traffic west of Detroit, Michigan. The conflict began in Chicago, on May 11 when nearly 4,000 factory employees of the Pullman Company began a wildcat strike in response to recent reductions in wages. Most of the factory workers who ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pullman Porter
Pullman porters were men hired to work for the railroads as porters on sleeping cars. Starting shortly after the American Civil War, George Pullman sought out former slaves to work on his sleeper cars. Their job was to carry passengers’ baggage, shine shoes, set up and maintain the sleeping berths, and serve passengers. Pullman porters served American railroads from the late 1860s until the Pullman Company ceased operations on December 31, 1968, though some sleeping-car porters continued working on cars operated by the railroads themselves and, beginning in 1971, Amtrak. The term "porter" has been superseded in modern American usage by "sleeping car attendant", with the former term being considered "somewhat derogatory". Until the 1960s, Pullman porters were exclusively black, and have been widely credited with contributing to the development of the black middle class in America. Under the leadership of A. Philip Randolph, Pullman porters formed the first all-black union, th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pullman Company
The Pullman Company, founded by George Pullman, was a manufacturer of railroad cars in the mid-to-late 19th century through the first half of the 20th century, during the boom of railroads in the United States. Through rapid late-19th century development of mass production and takeover of rivals, the company developed a virtual monopoly on production and ownership of sleeper cars. During a severe economic downturn, the 1894 Pullman Strike by company workers proved a transforming moment in American labor history. At the company's peak in the early 20th century, its cars accommodated 26 million people a year, and it in effect operated "the largest hotel in the world". Its production workers initially lived in a planned worker community (or "company town") named Pullman, Chicago. Pullman developed the sleeping car, which carried his name into the 1980s. Pullman did not just manufacture the cars, it also operated them on most of the railroads in the United States, paying rail ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
York Pullman
York Pullman is a bus operating company based in Rufforth, England. The first company to use the Pullman name was founded in 1926 by Norman Pearce and Hartas Foxton. The Yorkshire Pullman remained in use until the company was deregistered in 2000. In 2007 haulage firm K&J Logistics revived the name for use on its excursion programme and open-top tour of York. History Original company (1926–2000) York Pullman was founded in 1926 as a partnership between Norman Pearce, who for the preceding six years had operated a service between York and Stamford Bridge, and Hartas Foxton. Its name and livery of maroon, cream and yellow was derived from the luxury Pullman train carriages in use at the time. In January 1930 Pearce left the company and Foxton became its sole owner, a position he retained until his death thirty years later. In 1938 Pullman opened a new depot in York's Navigation Road to complement its three existing sites, which were no longer large enough to hold the company' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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