Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Alstom SA is a French multinational rolling stock manufacturer which operates worldwide in rail transport markets. It is active in the fields of passenger transportation, signaling, and locomotives, producing high-speed, suburban, regional and urban trains along with trams.
GEC Alsthom Traction Ltd became Alstom Traction Ltd on 22 June 1998 and the company name survived to 19 August 2008, although increasingly integrated within the Transport division of Alstom. The Alstom Transport factory at Preston was the last site of the former GEC Traction to remain open, albeit on a much reduced scale to that in the 1970s ...
The General Electric Company (GEC) was a major British industrial conglomerate involved in consumer and defence electronics, communications, and engineering.. It was originally founded in 1886 as G. Binswanger and Company as an electrical goods wholesaler based in London.
In 1988, GEC merged its Paxman, Ruston and Mirrlees Blackstone diesels businesses with the Alsthom division of Compagnie Générale d'Electricité (CGE) to form GEC-Alsthom. Paxman became GEC ALSTOM Paxman Diesels Ltd. In December 1997, GEC Alstom had its initial public offering as Alstom. The diesel engine businesses became Alstom Engines Ltd ...
In July, Alstom said that new power-sector orders for its fiscal first quarter, which ended June 30, dropped 35% from the same quarter a year earlier to approximately $2.74 billion because of a ...
BR Class 373 Eurostar e300 Alstom TGV TMST (initially known as BR Class 373 or TGV TMST) Eurostar IZY: TGV: GEC-Alstom: concentrated with additional distributed traction (2 power cars, 2 pass. semi-motor cars) 25 kV 50 Hz AC 3 kV DC 1.5 kV DC 750 V DC (3rd rail, no longer in use) 300 (190 mph) 300 (190 mph) 334.7 (208.0 mph) 1993
Unlike previous rolling stock contracts on the Underground, GEC Alsthom were contracted to design, build and finance the new trains - as well as maintain the trains for at least a 20 year period (extendable to 36 years). [4] [6] London Underground would then pay Alstom depending on the availability and reliability of the trains. [7]
In 1999, it changed its name to Alstom Power & Conversion, then on 10 November 2005, it became a separate company from Alstom. On 29 March 2011, it was announced that a 90% stake in Converteam was to be bought by GE Energy for $3.2 billion. [2] This deal was completed on 2 September 2011.