Cecil Rodes' saloon car

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Cecil Rhodes' saloon car in the Zimbabwe National Railways Museum

The lounge car of Cecil Rodes is a saloon car , which by De Beers in 1896 for its president, Cecil Rhodes , was procured (1853-1902).

vehicle

The vehicle was built in 1896 by the Pullman Palace Car Company in Chicago , shipped to South Africa in 129 individual parts , assembled there and commissioned in 1897. The car body is made of teak , the interior cladding of walnut . The car has a living room, a dining room with a small kitchen, a bedroom with a toilet and a bathroom.

history

Cecil Rhodes used the car until his death in Muizenberg in 1902 . From there, his body was brought by vehicle to the burial site in the Matopo Mountains , south of Bulawayo in what is now Zimbabwe . For this purpose, the original furniture was removed and lost. In 1953 the car came to the Rhodesian Railways , which used it on special occasions. In 1968 the car was handed over to the Railway Museum in Bulawayo, where it can be seen in the permanent exhibition.

literature

  • Günter Krause: Railway Museum Bulawayo (Zimbabwe) , Werl 2017, without page numbering and ISBN.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Günter Krause: Railway Museum Bulawayo (Zimbabwe) , Werl 2017, without page numbering and ISBN