[1] Due to the Panic of 1907, financial assistance was needed and Thomas O'Connor and Oscar Stephenson of New York City became investors.
In 1908, one vehicle was driven from the York factory to San Francisco and back over a period of about a month to prove its reliability.
[1] A Pullman won the famed Fairmount Park Road Race in Philadelphia in 1910, and in 1911 was awarded three gold medals at the Russian Exposition in Rostov on Don, considered an unprecedented "victory" for an American automobile manufacturer.
The Cutler-Hammer electric gear change was also offered; however, quality issues resulted from the high production and sales severely declined.
The Pullman Junior, with a twenty-two-hp Golden Belknap & Schwartz engine that was priced at $740, (equivalent to $20,720 in 2023) was introduced for 1916 and was the only car produced in 1917 while the company was under receivership.
[1] The original building which housed the Pullman factory still exists in York, Pennsylvania at 238-242 N George St.