17 Facts About Bombardier Transportation

Bombardier Transportation was a Canadian-German rolling stock and rail transport manufacturer, headquartered in Berlin, Germany.

Bombardier Transportation had many regional offices, production and development facilities worldwide.

Canadian company Bombardier Transportation Inc entered the rail market in 1970 when it purchased Lohnerwerke GmbH of Austria.

Core of the Bombardier Transportation group was formed with the purchase of Montreal Locomotive Works in 1975.

In 1987, Bombardier Transportation bought the assets of US railcar manufacturers Budd and Pullman-Standard.

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Bombardier Transportation continues to operate the railcar operations in Thunder Bay.

In 1991 the grouping Bombardier Transportation Eurorail was formed consisting of the company's European subsidiaries; BN, ANF-Industrie, Prorail, and BWS.

In May 2001, Bombardier Transportation acquired Adtranz from DaimlerChrysler, and became by many measurements the Western world's largest rail-equipment manufacturer.

In late 2012, Bombardier announced the closure of the Bombardier Talbot plant in Aachen, and a reduction in workforce in the transportation division of 1,200 people.

Lutz Bertling, president and CEO of Bombardier Transportation stated that a primary motivation for the sell off was to increase the company's financial flexibility, for potential acquisitions or consolidations, allowing the company to better compete with an anticipated Chinese presence in the European market.

Bombardier Transportation Inc announced on 1 December 2020 that the transaction would be closed on 29 January 2021 for €4.

Note: Bombardier Transportation acquired Universal Mobility Incorporated's UM III technologies in 1989.

Bombardier Transportation's locomotives are mostly linked to their acquisition of Adtranz and Montreal Locomotive Works, as well as joint venture with Alstom.

Via the acquisition of Adtranz, Bombardier Transportation was able to obtain some cornerstone technologies, such as the three-phase drive technology developed by plant in Mannheim, which is the worldwide center of competence for the development of locomotives.

Investigation report alleges that Bombardier Transportation provided gifts and trips to Canada for civil servants and politicians involved in the contract decision, which was based on revenue expected from an inflated estimate of 180,000 passengers per day using the service.

Bombardier Transportation said that "between 2003 and 2005, Bombardier funded three luxurious trips to Canada to each of 37 people" including 18 Yongin city councillors on so-called "LRT field trips".

Bombardier Transportation had committed to delivering 67 custom-built Flexity Outlook streetcars to the TTC by October 2015 for its streetcar system, but only 10 were in service at the time.