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Cars- Leases -Supplemental -Lightweight Cars, 1962

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 4
Identifier: Case Pullman 05/01/07

Scope and Contents note

From the Sub-Series:

The Vice President, Operating, was responsible for Pullman Company operations in Mexico, which after 1934 were conducted in the country by Mexican nationals under the supervision of a resident manager who was a United States citizen. The company performed all its accounting in Mexico; it negotiated operating contracts with Mexican railroads; it set tariffs for Mexican travel; and it concluded agreements with Mexican labor unions. By 1966, Pullman employed a work force of 788 and operated a fleet of 335 Mexican owned or leased sleeping cars and 63 dining and parlor cars in the nation.

Records regarding Pullman Company operations in Mexico, dating primarily from the 1950s and 1960s, but also including tariffs and car service records dating from the 1920s. Includes administrative memoranda and correspondence 1954-1969, car lease and sale records, 1956-1966, collective labor contracts with the Syndicate of Railway Workers of the Republic Of Mexico, 1951-1958, correspondence, proposals, contracts and bill settlements with the National Railways of Mexico, etc., 1950-1971, and tariffs, correspondence worksheets, and rate tables 1917-1966.

Dates

  • Creation: 1962

Creator

Conditions Governing Access

The Pullman Company records are open for research in the Special Collections Reading Room; 1 box at a time (Priority III).

Medical records and records of disciplinary action are closed for a period of fifty years after the creation of the record. Such records may be disclosed only to the named individual or his legal representative. Application and service files that may contain medical and disciplinary information will be reviewed and records removed before the files are supplied to a researcher.

Personnel records less than fifty years old and not specified in (1) above are open for research with the user's written assurance that information from the records will be used for statistical or summary purposes only and that no specific names or individually identifiable information will be disclosed. Such information may be revealed only if the individual or his legal representative agrees to its release, or if the individual is deceased.

Photocopies of open personnel records less than fifty years old are supplied only for the researcher's personal use and may not be reproduced. All copies must be destroyed or returned upon completion of work.

Repository Details

Part of the The Newberry Library - Modern Manuscripts and Archives Repository

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