Adtranz
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Adtranz (alternative spelling ADtranz, complete name ABB Daimler Benz Transportation) was a German rail rolling stock equipment manufacturer which designed rail cars and engines.
It was created in 1996 in the merger of ABB Henschel and AEG Transportation. Initially it was owned with equal shares by Daimler-Benz and ABB. In 1999 DaimlerChrysler bought ABB's shares and renamed Adtranz DaimlerChrysler Rail Systems.
Bombardier Transportation acquired the company in 2001, making Bombardier the largest rail equipment manufacturer in the world. At the time of its purchase, Adtranz was the world's second largest manufacturer of such equipment.
[edit] Products
A list of products past and present:
- M4 subway cars for SEPTA Blue Line, in Philadelphia, PA USA
- Adtranz-SLM Lok 2000 locomotives
- London Underground 1992 Stock. British Rail Class 482
- Talent BR643 DMU
- German ICE high speed train
- Automatic Guideway Transit Systems
- Adtranz-CAF Series 6000 trains
- Variotram
- Incentro tram
- GT8-100C/2SY tram
- ICN tilting train
- IC3 Flexliner
- DE 2000 trains
- Lok 109-1 locomotive
- GT6N (GT6M-ZR) Low Floor LRV
- GT6-70 LRV
- GT8-70 Articulated LRV
- C20 metro stock, used in Stockholm, Sweden
- A32 tram, also used in Stockholm.
- Suburban Multiple Units and Interurban Multiple Units used in South East Queensland, Australia.
