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Their wide range of products includes Passenger Rail Vehicles , Locomotive s, Bogie s, Propulsion , and controls. They also provide rail control solutions and build total transit systems. Bombardier Transportation has production facilities in:
André Navarri is the current CEO of Bombardier Transportation. HISTORY Bombardier Transportation was founded in 1974 and started manufacturing rolling stock with a contract from the Société De Transport De La Communauté Urbaine De Montréal to build metro trains for the Montréal Métro . The core of the Transportation group was formed with the purchase of Montreal Locomotive Works (MLW) in 1975 . The group also purchased Hawker Siddeley Canada . MLW was later sold to General Electric in 1988 . Bombardier produced the LRC (Light, Rapid, Comfortable) Tilting Train in the 1980s . With its acquisition of the German company Adtranz from DaimlerChrysler in 2001 , Bombardier Transportation became by many measurements the world’s largest rail equipment manufacturer. The addition of Adtranz also made Bombardier a manufacturer of Locomotive s along with its existing product lines of Passenger Carriage s, Multiple-unit trains, and Tram s. PRODUCTS
Bombardier also supply propulsion units, train-control systems, bogies, and other parts, and maintain train fleets. EXTERNAL LINKS
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