Allan of Rotterdam

Allan & Co was a former railway rolling stock and tram manufacturer based in Rotterdam, Netherlands.

The full name of the company (in Dutch) was Allan & Co´s Koninklijke Nederlandsche Fabrieken van Meubelen en Spoorwegmaterieel N.V.

The company was founded in 1839 and started as a furniture maker.

Allan went on to become a major supplier to the Netherlands Railways, including the Plan X Blue Angel diesel trains.

[1] The company also built rolling stock for export, such as the Class 0300 railcars for the Portuguese Railways.

A "Blue Angel" railcar built in 1953 for the Netherlands Railways, photographed at Hoorn , September 2006
Trams in Rotterdam built by Allan & Co in the late 1940s