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Rohr subway cars manufactured for the Washington Metro. Rohr, Inc. is an aerospace manufacturing company based in Chula Vista, California, south of San Diego.It is a wholly owned unit of the Collins Aerospace division of Raytheon Technologies; [1] it was founded in 1940 by Frederick H. Rohr as Rohr Aircraft.
ROMAG was developed from a wheeled system known as Monocab, originally designed by Edward Haltom and built to the extent of a test track by Vero Inc. in 1969. Rohr bought the design from Vero and converted it to the ROMAG, opening their own test track at their Chula Vista, California, plants in 1971.
The Rohr cars were rebuilt with ADtranz model 1507C 3-phase alternating current (AC) traction motors with insulated-gate bipolar transistor (IGBT) inverters. The Westinghouse motors were retained on the Alstom C (C1) and Morrison-Knudsen C2 cars and the motors that were removed from the Rohr cars were kept as spares.
WMATA Rohr 8005 at Pentagon City. 8004–8005 were formerly cars 1092–1093 that were converted in 2016 meaning they're the only rehabilitated Money Train Rohr cars in the system. The original order of 300 Metro cars was manufactured by Rohr Industries in 1973, with delivery in 1976. [4]
Frederick Hilmer Rohr was born on 10 May 1896 in Hoboken, New Jersey, [1] where his father, Henry Gustav Rohr, had recently arrived from Germany. Looking to market his skills in working with sheet metal , Henry Rohr migrated westward with his family in 1898 and founded a metalworking shop in San Francisco .
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