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Word: wegmann (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Turkey, the Ghazi ("The Victorious"), satisfied his relatively simple wants by decreeing that his private train shall be made up primarily of an ordinary engine and cars; but shall have attached at the end a $36,000 "Presidential Car" which was completed for delivery by the German firm of Wegmann last week. It contains, at the forward end, an electric kitchen; then a dining-room for 14 persons; next, the President's bedroom and bath with a marble tub; adjoining this a smoking-room in green and gold, decorated with Bosporous landscape murals; finally, as a great innovation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Presidential Trains | 5/9/1927 | See Source »

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