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Thrall Car Manufacturing Company was a manufacturer of railroad freight cars in Chicago Heights, Illinois from 1917 to 2001. The company was sold to Trinity Industries in 2001. Company history
Freightliner Trucks is an American semi truck manufacturer. [1] Founded in 1929 as the truck-manufacturing division of Consolidated Freightways (from which it derives its name), the company was established in 1942 as Freightliner Corporation. [2]
In the late 1930s, CF began serving the Northwest US region and down the West coast into California but by the late 1940s had routes as far east as Chicago. The company operated about 1,600 pieces of equipment by 1950 with revenues of US$24 million. [1] The company went public in November 1951, opening on the New York Stock Exchange at $1.80.
The purchaser, William Barbour of New York, changed the name to Central Locomotive and Car Works and continued the company's operations. In the 1910s the company continued its slow decline, and the last of the 480 passenger cars built at the Chicago Heights works was constructed in 1914. In 1916 there were two more fires at the plant.
1992- Production starts at Freightliner's new truck plant in St. Thomas, Ontario, Canada; 1995- Freightliner launches Freightliner Custom Chassis Corporation and acquires American LaFrance. 1997- Freightliner acquires Ford Motor Company's heavy-truck business and names it "Sterling." Freightliner launches SelecTrucks.
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The Freightliner business unit had its assets transferred into a new company, Freightliner (1995) Limited, in preparation for sale. [11] Rejected as not sufficiently profitable by English Welsh & Scottish Railway , [ 6 ] on 25 May 1996, Freightliner was purchased in a management buyout backed by 3i and Electra Private Equity for a sum of £5.4 ...
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