Central Transportation Company
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Product Details
Central Transportation Company
Certificate Type
Capital Stock
Date Issued
August 20, 1875
Canceled
Yes
Printer
Wm. Mann
Signatures
Hand signed
Approximate Size
11 3/4" (w) by 7 1/2" (h)
Additional Details
NA
Historical Context
The Central Transportation Company was established on December 30, 1862, with Theodore Woodruff (of Woodruff Sleeping Cars fame) as the principal stockholder and his brother Jonah as manager. Woodruff assigned his patents to the new company, as did several other inventors. But in 1864, Woodruff assigned all his interests to one of the other stockholders and retired from the sleeping car business.
In 1870, Central Transportation became involved with Pullman in a patent infringement suit and after costly litigation was leased to, and assigned most of its patent rights to, the Pullmans Palace Car Company. At one point, the Central Transportation Company was the largest sleeping-car company in the country.
Woodruff was an inveterate mechanic, inventor and promoter. Among his inventions -- besides the sleeping car apparatus -- were a coffee-hulling machine, a surveyor's compass and a steam plow. He was killed in 1892 when -- at the ripe old age of 81 -- he was struck by a train while on a business trip to promote his new method of propelling ships.
Jonah decided to begin again and organize his own line. He had been involved in sleeping car design and had acquired several patents of his own. His new company -- the Woodruff Sleeping & Parlor Coach Company -- was expanding nicely when his health gave way in the mid-1870s, and he died in 1876.
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