The Budd Company was a 20th-century metal fabricator, a major supplier of body components to the automobile industry, and a manufacturer of stainless steel...
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Edward Gowen Budd (December 28, 1870 – November 30, 1946) was an American inventor and businessman. Edward Gowen Budd was born in Smyrna, Delaware, on...
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up Budd or budd in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Budd may refer to: Budd (given name) Budd (surname) Budd Coast, Wilkes Land, Antarctica Budd Creek...
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unit (DMU) railcar. Between 1949 and 1962, 398 RDCs were built by the Budd Company of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. The cars were primarily...
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The Budd RB-1 Conestoga was a twin-engine, stainless steel cargo aircraft designed for the United States Navy during World War II by the Budd Company of...
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Robert Budd Dwyer (November 21, 1939 – January 22, 1987) was an American politician. He served from 1965 to 1971 as a Republican member of the Pennsylvania...
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The Budd SPV-2000 is a self-propelled diesel multiple unit railcar built by the Budd Company between 1978 and 1981 for use on North American commuter railroads...
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Express service. In North America, dome cars were manufactured by the Budd Company, Pullman Standard and American Car & Foundry. Southern Pacific Railroad...
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Amfleet (category Budd Company)
railroad passenger cars built by the Budd Company for American company Amtrak in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Budd based the Amfleet design on its earlier...
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The Pennsylvania Railroad (PRR) ordered 61 Metroliner cars from the Budd Company in 1966 as part of a collaboration with the federal government to improve...
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became standard. Mass production of all-metal bodies began with the Budd Company and the Dodge Brothers. All-metal bodies became common in the 1920s,...
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cattle and chickens. His father, Richard, owned a facility-services company. Budd attended Summit School, a private school in Winston-Salem, before attending...
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Pioneer Zephyr (category Budd multiple units)
The Pioneer Zephyr is a diesel-powered trainset built by the Budd Company in 1934 for the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad (CB&Q), commonly known...
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Upton Sinclair (redirect from Lanny Budd)
the 20th century. An actual company named the Budd Company manufactured arms during World War II, founded by Edward G. Budd in 1912. The novels were bestsellers...
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The Budd–Michelin rubber-tired rail cars were built by the Budd Company in the United States between 1931 and 1933 using French firm Michelin's "Micheline"...
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to the late 1920s and advances in lightweight car body design by the Budd Company. The economic recovery from World War II hastened the widespread adoption...
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Ralph Budd (August 20, 1879 – February 2, 1962) was an American railroad executive who was the president of the Great Northern Railway from 1919 up until...
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M1/M3 (railcar) (redirect from Budd Metropolitans)
two similar series of electric multiple unit rail cars built by the Budd Company for the Long Island Rail Road, the Metro-North Railroad, and Metro-North's...
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(numbered 2601–3200) were manufactured by the Budd Company of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the same company that made the 2200-series, and first delivered...
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stainless-steel commuter EMU train body and related bogie technology from the Budd Company of the United States. Since then, Tokyu Car has specialised in stainless-steel...
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Shot welding (category Budd Company)
patented by Earl J. Ragsdale, a mechanical engineer at the Edward G. Budd Manufacturing Company in 1932 to weld stainless steel. This welding method was used...
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are enumerated below, with their original owners. Budd RDC #15 on a Black Hawk service in 1975. Budd Metroliner cab car #880 leading a Metroliner service...
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Enea Bossi Sr. (section Budd Company)
aerospace engineer and aviation pioneer. He is best known for designing the Budd BB-1 Pioneer, the first stainless steel aircraft, and the Pedaliante airplane...
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Railway Budd Coach #2400; Built by the Budd Company in 1939; Scrapped in Noblesville on October 15, 2021. Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Budd Coach...
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Durant (automobile) (category Budd Company)
the vehicle were supplied by Budd Company. In 1930, some Durants were built with all steel bodies, also supplied by Budd. Durant Motors was found insolvent...
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2600-series (CTA) (category Budd multiple units)
2600-series is a series of Chicago "L" car built between 1981 and 1987 by the Budd Company of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 600 cars were built, and 489 of them remain...
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Ambi-Budd was a German automobile body company founded by Edward Gowen Budd. In Germany, Edward Gowen Budd worked with Arthur Müller and set up a steel...
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Cuyahoga Valley Scenic Railroad (category Railway companies established in 1972)
while upgrading their equipment with new ALCO and MLW diesel locomotives and Budd steel passenger cars. In June 1999, construction was completed by the NPS...
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locomotives such as the Burlington Route's Zephyr locomotives built by the Budd Company in 1936 and EMC's own EMD E-units introduced in 1937. The B-B locomotives...
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R11/R34 (New York City Subway car) (category Budd multiple units)
prototype class of experimental New York City Subway cars built by the Budd Company in 1949 for the IND/BMT B Division. A total of ten cars were built, arranged...
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