Six-wheeled Pullman Albert P. Brumell of Broomell, Schmidt & Steacy Company built his first car in 1903. Named the
Pullman, it featured six wheels and was built in the Hardinge factory. The axles were evenly spaced; the endmost two axles were in their conventional fore and aft locations and the middle two wheels, which were the powered wheels, sat directly under the passenger seats. The vehicle was subsequently torn apart and items such as the engine were rebuilt in a more conventional four-wheel configuration. The
Lincoln Highway which ran through York had not been fully organized or completed and this was a challenging journey. In 1909, the company was reorganized as the
Pullman Motor Car Company. A Pullman won the famed
Fairmount Park Road Race in
Philadelphia in 1910, and in 1911 was awarded three gold medals at the Russian Exposition in
Rostov on Don, considered an unprecedented "victory" for an American automobile manufacturer. In 1912, Pullman introduced a sixty-hp
six-cylinder car on a 138-inch
wheelbase that was priced at $2,750, . Annual production by 1915 was more than four thousand cars. The
Cutler-Hammer electric gear change was also offered; however, quality issues resulted from the high production and sales severely declined. In late 1915, E. T. Birdsall was brought in from
White Motor Company to design a lower priced car to be called the
Pullman Junior, but it was too late to save the company. The Pullman Junior, with a twenty-two-hp Golden Belknap & Schwartz engine that was priced at $740, () was introduced for 1916 and was the only car produced in 1917 while the company was under receivership.
Fate The
Pullman Motor Car Company declared bankruptcy in December 1916 and ceased operations in 1917; the factory was sold to Bell Motor Car Co. (also of York) and the rest of the company's assets were then sold at sale in July of that year, . The original building which housed the Pullman factory still exists in
York, Pennsylvania at 238-242 N George St. There are about 27 known Pullman automobiles still in existence, about half of which have been restored. == Overview of production figures ==