Voitures d'exception, toutes les voitures et fourgons de la CIWL 1872-1930

Exceptional cars, all the cars and vans of the CIWL 1872-1930

Sleeping cars, restaurant, lounge, Pullman and "teak" vans of the Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits and Grands Express Européens 1872-1930 

After their masterful study of the CIWL's metal equipment after 1922, here is the second part, devoted to the so-called "teak" cars, from the founding of the company in 1872 to the early 1930s. As with the first volume, the authors have endeavored to list all the cars and vans that provided the services and prestige of the Company's great trains during the Belle Époque, first and foremost the Orient-Express.  
A very rich and very rare iconography illustrates this work, including some colorized photos in perfect compliance with the colours of the time! 

368 pages, more than 600 illustrations, format 210 x 285 mm  

SUMMARY

SLEEPING CARS
The original axle sleeping cars (1872-1882)
The first bogie sleeping cars (1880-1886)
The era of skylight sleeping cars and then teak sleeping cars (1889-1923)
The beginnings of teak construction in 1889
The brief return of three-axle sleeping cars
The 19.740 m sleeping cars
Special sleeping cars for Egypt
Prototype No. 1000
The R diagram sleeping cars (20.320 or 20.300 m)
Mixed sleeping cars for Italy
The special PO sleeping cars
The sleeping cars rebuilt in the 1920s (No. between 2684 and 3246)
The last deliveries after 1922
The S2 wooden sleeping cars No. 2606 to 2640
Sleeping cars P no. 3001 to 3009
Sleeping cars ZS no. 3010 to 3017
Sleeping cars III no. 3018 to 3032
Sleeping cars S4 wood no. 3381 to 3390

DINING CARS
Axle dining cars
Bogie dining cars
Early dining cars
Transitional dining cars
Special dining cars for Egypt
19.740 m dining cars
Six-axle dining
cars 20.320 m and 20.300 m dining cars 20.400 m
dining cars
The latest teak dining cars
Two-axle teak dining cars
Dining cars rebuilt in the 1920s (No. 3100 to 3229)

THE SALON CARS
The first saloon cars
The Club-Train saloon cars
The 19.740 m saloon cars
The teak saloon cars
The Belgian saloons: WS n° 1501 to 1553
The 20.300 m saloon cars

NON-METALLIC PULLMAN CARS

THE VANS
The axle vans
The 19.740 m bogie vans
The 17.640 m bogie vans
The post-war reconstructions of 1914-1918

Check out volume 1 here