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Definition of Palace car

Palace car
Palace Pal"ace, n. [OE. palais, F. palais, fr. L. palatium, fr. Palatium, one of the seven hills of Rome, ? which Augustus had his residence. Cf. Paladin.] 1. The residence of a sovereign, including the lodgings of high officers of state, and rooms for business, as well as halls for ceremony and reception. --Chaucer. 2. The official residence of a bishop or other distinguished personage. 3. Loosely, any unusually magnificent or stately house. Palace car. See under Car. Palace court, a court having jurisdiction of personal actions arising within twelve miles of the palace at Whitehall. The court was abolished in 1849. [Eng.] --Mozley & W.

Meaning of Palace car from wikipedia

- Francisco and now resides at the Millbrae Train Museum The original Pullman Palace Car Co. had been organized on February 22, 1867. On January 1, 1900, after...
- The Pullman Company, founded as the Pullman Palace Car Company in 1867, owned and operated most sleeping cars in the United States until the mid-20th century...
- business within. Pullman developed a railroad sleeping car, the Pullman sleeper or "palace car". These were designed after the packet boats that travelled...
- the NY Central and later spread to other lines. He founded the Wagner Palace Car Company, located in Buffalo, New York. Several legal battles with the...
- Newark, New Jersey. Besides inventing, Brooks was a porter for the Pullman Palace Car Company. Unlike other sweepers at that time (1890s), Brooks’ sweeper was...
- of the nation's first industrial unions. After workers at the Pullman Palace Car Company organized a wildcat strike over pay cuts in the summer of 1894...
- numerous other American businesses including Aetna, Western Union, the Pullman Car Company, and 21 railroads. His grandfather Joseph Morgan was one of the co-founders...
- Pullman Cars, Volume I, Alphabetical List. Greenberg Publishing Company. Barger, Ralph L. (1990). A Century of Pullman Cars, Volume II, The Palace Cars. Greenberg...
- secretary to General William T. Sherman, vice president of the Pullman Palace Car Company and U.S. Amb****ador to France from 1897 to 1905. Porter was born...
- terminology, a stock car or cattle car is a type of rolling stock used for carrying livestock (not carc****es) to market. A traditional stock car resembles a boxcar...