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United Streetcar
United Streetcar, LLC, was a manufacturer of modern streetcars, located in the Clackamas area in the southeastern suburbs of Portland, Oregon, United States. It was a limited liability company and was a wholly owned subsidiary of Oregon Iron Works, Inc. (OIW), which has been in business since 1944. It was originally reported to have been established in early 2007, after OIW was the successful bidder for a contract to construct a prototype streetcar for the city of Portland, but in 2010 the company clarified that it had been formed in December 2005.〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher=United Streetcar )〕 The company completed its first streetcar in 2009.〔〔
== History ==
Oregon Iron Works, a specialized manufacturer of complex structural components and systems, began considering entering the field of streetcar manufacturing in 2004, after realizing that the Portland Streetcar system had purchased vehicles built only by foreign manufacturers, possibly due to the absence of any U.S.-based manufacturers of modern streetcars.
In 2005, Congress approved a federal transportation spending bill which included a US$4 million grant to TriMet for the acquisition, on behalf of the city of Portland, of a prototype domestically manufactured streetcar. With a goal of fostering the domestic production of modern streetcars,〔 the grant had been added into the $286 billion spending bill by Oregon Congressman Peter DeFazio, but did not specify a particular company to be the recipient.
In August 2006, the city of Portland issued a Request for Proposals for the provision of a prototype low-floor streetcar compatible with Portland Streetcar's existing fleet.〔City Council Ordinance 180788 (February 28, 2007). City of Portland.〕 In anticipation of this, OIW signed a "technology transfer agreement" in February 2006 with Škoda, the Czech company which had built Portland's first seven streetcars, in order to permit OIW to manufacture a streetcar to the existing Škoda 10T design but with mostly U.S. components and assembly.〔"Streetcar building: Back in the U.S.A." (2009, 3rd quarter). ''Passenger Train Journal'', p. 41. ISSN 0160-6913.〕 Only two formal proposals were received by the city, and after that of the other bidder was "deemed not to have met the minimum requirement",〔〔 the contract was awarded to Oregon Iron Works, in January 2007.〔 OIW then announced that it had created a new subsidiary, United Streetcar, LLC, to handle streetcar manufacturing. The value of the contract was $3.2 million, with the balance of the special $4 million federal grant being used to fund the city's costs to administer the grant and oversee the project.〔
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