I seek the advice of the experts. I am compiling a history of Union Pacific passenger cars, to go along with my previous works about UP diesel locomotives and cabooses. Below is brief history of The Pullman Company, plus the later Pullman-Standard. Can someone comment on its accuracy, and point me to something more detailed than White’s very large book, which I have.
Don Strack
http://utahrails.net
Pullman (Pullman-Standard)
On December 26, 1934, Pullman Car & Manufacturing (along with several other Pullman, Inc. subsidiaries), merged with Standard Steel Car Co. (and it subsidiaries) to form the Pullman-Standard Car Manufacturing Company.
The original Pullman Palace Car Co., had been organized on February 22, 1867, and after buying numerous associated and competing companies, was reorganized as The Pullman Co., on January 1, 1900.
Pullman Car & Manufacturing Co., had been organized on June 18, 1924 from the previous Manufacturing Department of The Pullman Company, to consolidate the car building interests of The Pullman Co. The parent company, The Pullman Co., was reorganized as Pullman, Inc., on June 21, 1927.
Pullman purchased controlling interest in Standard Steel Car Co. in 1929.
Standard Steel Car Co., had been organized on January 2, 1902 to operate a railroad car manufacturing facility at Butler, Pa. (and after 1906, a facility at Hammond, Ind.), and was reorganized as a subsidiary of Pullman, Inc., on March 1, 1930.
Pullman built its last standard sleeping car in February 1931.
An anti-trust complaint suit was filed in 1940 by the Edward G. Budd Manufacturing Co. of Philadelphia claiming unfair competition by monopoly. The suit was settled in 1944 when Pullman-Standard was ordered to sell either its sleeping car operating company, or its car manufacturing interests. On June 30, 1947, Pullman, Inc., sold its Pullman Operating Company subsidiary to 59 me