10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SLEEPING CAR»
Discover the use of
sleeping car in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
sleeping car and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Marching Together: Women of the Brotherhood of
Sleeping Car ...
In this first book-length history of the women of the BSCP, Melinda Chateauvert brings to life an entire group of women ignored in previous histories of the Brotherhood and of working-class women, situating them in the debates among women's ...
Melinda Chateauvert, 1998
2
George Pullman; young
sleeping car builder
Emphasizes the boyhood of this railroad car designer, including the experience which started his thinking about better places to sleep.
3
A Dictionary of Travel and Tourism Terminology
Luxembourg, Germany, Denmark, Italy, The Netherlands, Austria, Switzerland,
Belgium and France have grouped their international sleeping car services into a
pool, marketing them under the brand name EuroCity Night. (The term TEN ...
4
Trains and Technology: Cars
Claims of better ventilation and the convenience for families (because any two
side by side bunks could be combined into a double bed) were made for this
arrangement. A sleeping car that was convertible to a chair car by day, and which
, ...
Anthony J. Bianculli, 2002
5
Travel by Pullman: A Century of Service, 1865-1969
Wagner had become a formidable and contentious competitor and would, in fact,
be the last sleeping-car concessionaire to capitulate to Pullman. Another leading
sleeping-car company of the period was the Central Transportation Company, ...
Joe Welsh, Bill Howes, 2004
6
The American Railroad Passenger
Car
See Brakeman; Mail clerks; Porters; Train crews Lackawanna, 156, 419, 432
Laconia (sleeping car), 270 Laconia Car Co., 33, 127 La Crosse and Milwaukee,
211, 212, 347, 384 Ladies compartments, 13, 14, 21, 66, 69, 87, 203, 205, 206,
207, ...
7
The Pennsylvania Railroad in Indiana
5, has Pullman vestibuled and palace sleeping can and day coaches, Pittsburgh
to Columbus and Cincinnati ; and Pullman sleeping car to Indianapolis via
Columbus, Xenia and Dayton. Fast Line, No. 1, has Pullman sleeping car
Pittsburgh to ...
8
Quellen Des Internationalen Einheitsrechts:
Sleeping car vouchers, however, cannot be validated for the next train. § 6. The
cover of the ticket folder without section ticket and the section ticket without cover
shall not be entitlement to travel. A section ticket, presented in isolation, is not ...
Konrad Zweigert, Jan Kropholler, 1972
9
The Code of Federal Regulations of the United States of America
expenditures on account of additional property and equipment, or for additions to
and betterments of the property and equipment of sleeping car companies. (d)
The accounts pertaining to the operation of dining, buffet, and other car facilities,
...
10
Encyclopedia of Canada's Peoples
On the Canadian Pacific Railway, blacks, many of them recruited in the United
States, were hired only as sleeping-car porters; however experienced he became
, the porter could not be promoted to conductor or any higher post. The Grand ...
3 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SLEEPING CAR»
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sleeping car is used in the context of the following news items.
Westlander and Inlander to lose dining and sleeping cars
Two of Queensland's great train journeys – the Westlander and the Inlander - will change forever on January 1, when the dining and sleeping cars are removed, ... «Brisbane Times, Nov 14»
Today in labor history: The Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters …
On May 8, 1925, A. Philip Randolph and Milton P. Webster founded the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters. Representing the Pullman Porters, the ... «People's World, May 13»
Porters' road to success on 'rolling hotels'
Hours were long and pay was low until the first African American union - the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters - was founded in 1925 by A. Philip Randolph, ... «San Francisco Chronicle, Feb 09»
