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Romney March, Corriedale, Polwarth, Southdowns, Ryelands are not the names of Pullman cars. They are the names of Australian sheep which grow one-fourth of the world's wool, about 900,000,000 lbs. The U. S., Britain, France, Belgium, Japan, Germany are ordinarily big buyers...
That the streamliner has already given the roads a new hope is a feather for two caps. One feather is worn by Budd, the other by Pullman. When Pullman put out its first aluminum alloy Diesel streamliner in 1934, Budd followed in just two months with a sleek stainless steel job. These two manufacturers went right to work to show the railroads that business could be won by fast, comfortable trains with new-type accommodations for coach travelers...
Operating on U. S. tracks at year's end were some 85 streamliners, made by Pullman, Budd, American Car & Foundry and in railroad shops. A few were still being pulled by skirted, dressed-up steam locomotives, but the best records were being set by the Western roads that had gone whole hog and plumped for Diesel-electric power. Speeds had been stepped up enormously : Burlington's Fort Worth-Houston and Chicago-St. Paul trains were running on a 66.6-m. p. h. schedule; Union Pacific-Chicago & North Western's two City of Denver trains were averaging...
Well aware that streamliner speed would appeal to the railroads' customers, light-train builders like Budd and Pullman cannily concentrated their major sales appeal on coach-passenger comforts. To get average travelers out of automobiles and buses, they made roomier cars (50 seats instead of 80), softened upholstery, improved lighting, prettied washrooms and advocated stewardesses, an idea which the airlines had already exploited. The record of Santa Fe's El Capitans proved that this was good salesmanship: first full month of their operation (March 1938) they turned in a revenue of $38,000; four months later...
...item shown in this connection is an advertising leaflet prepared for the European equivalent of the Pullman company, to advertise its sleeping car accommodations; the leaflet is simply printed in white type and illustrations are on a dark blue background...