Pullman Company Presidents from the antitrust-induced buyout of the company in 1947 included Carroll Rede Harding, 1947-1958, George W. Bohannon, 1958-1971, Fred J. Boeckelman, 1971-1976, and Martin J. Rock, 1976-1982. The company ceased operations in 1969, but maintained a skeleton central office staff until 1982, when pending legal matters were finally settled.

President’s administrative files, 1947-1971, outgoing correspondence, 1960-1978, and proposals, reports, and surveys dating from the purchase of the Pullman Company (formerly the operating subsidiary of Pullman, Inc.) by the railroads in 1947.

Primarily records of C. R. Harding and G. W. Bohannon documenting the twenty-two year decline of the firm until it ceased operations in 1969. File topics include the sale of cars to owner railroads, 1947-1949; the disposition of surplus cars; employee labor matters, benefits, and separation allowances; executive appointments; Mexican operations; uniform service contracts with U. S. railroads; Board of Directors, Advisory Committee and Executive Committee matters; passenger complaints, etc.

There are also consultants’ reports on the future of the Pullman Company, service charges, optimum economic size, etc.

Index to numbered files located in Box 1, Folder 1.