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  2. Micheline (railcar) - Wikipedia

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    Micheline train at the Cité du train museum in Mulhouse, France Micheline tyre and rim. Michelines were a series of rubber-tyred trains developed in France in the 1930s by various rail companies and rubber-tyre manufacturer Michelin. Some Michelines were built in the United States by the Budd Company. [1]

  3. Budd–Michelin rubber-tired rail cars - Wikipedia

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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" rail car design. Michelin built its first rail car in 1929, and by 1932 had built a fleet of nine cars that all featured innovative and distinctive pneumatic tires .

  4. Michelin - Wikipedia

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    An 1898 poster by "O'Galop" of Bibendum, the Michelin Man Michelin, advertising, Australia, 1922 Demonstration of the Michelin "car-train" with rubber tyres in the Netherlands in 1932 c. 1965–1970, view of old fashioned Michelin omnibus and two michelin men with bystanders behind Charles Rolls statue, Monmouth, Wales.

  5. The History Of The Michelin Star - AOL

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  6. Rubber-tyred metro - Wikipedia

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    The bogies of the train include railway wheels with longer flanges than normal. These conventional wheels are normally just above the rails, but come into use in the case of a flat tyre, or at switches (points) and crossings. In Paris these rails were also used to enable mixed traffic, with rubber-tyred and steel-wheeled trains using the same ...

  7. Michelin Guide history: How did a tire company become an ...

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    If you scored a Valentine’s Day reservation at a swanky Michelin-starred restaurant this year, you might wonder why an elite restaurant rating guide has the same name as a company that makes tires.

  8. Pioneer Zephyr - Wikipedia

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    The articulated design of some Budd-Michelin cars, with trucks shared between adjacent cars, presented another opportunity for weight saving with the new train. [19] On conventional passenger cars, each carbody rode upon a pair of trucks (pivot-mounted wheel-axle assembly), with one truck at each end.

  9. Local history: Strata-Dome luxury train impressed Akron ... - AOL

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    The railroad originally planned to operate the streamliner during the day, allowing passengers to marvel at the passing scenery from their perches in the Strata-Dome car, but B&O executives made ...