Alstom Transport Deutschland

Alstom Transport Deutschland
Company typeSubsidiary
IndustryRail transport
Founded1834; 190 years ago (1834)
SuccessorAlstom
HeadquartersSalzgitter, Lower Saxony
Area served
Worldwide
ProductsLocomotives
High-speed trains
Intercity and commuter trains
Trams
People movers
Signalling systems
ParentAlstom
A historic LH carriage on the tourist line in Wrocław, Wroclaw, Poland.
Preserved Linke-Hofmann tram (originally from Wrocław), Kraków, Poland.

Alstom Transport Deutschland, formerly Linke-Hofmann-Busch, is a German manufacturing company originally established in Breslau (now Wrocław, Poland) to produce locomotives and rolling stock. Its origins lay in the wheelwright business of Gottfried Linke, begun in 1834. After World War II, the company was reestablished in Salzgitter in West Germany. In 1994, GEC Alsthom acquired a 51% shareholding.[1] It is now part of Alstom; the name Linke-Hofmann-Busch ceased to be used in 2009 when it became Alstom Transport Deutschland GmbH.

  1. ^ World Update Railway Age, August 1994, p. 88.