ABSTRACT
The principle throughout the company is that all payments are made in the currency of the country through which the car is travelling, and goods sold, whenever possible, are provided by that country. In the case of the Lombardy Express, for example, the French conductors are provided before leaving Paris with coffee powder in individual envelopes for serving breakfasts. In the small butchery, final cuts are made to the joints, and these are sent up by monorail after being prepared. But the grocery department is perhaps the most interesting, as it is so varied; it is the one nearest the loading bay. Wagons-Lits say they have two classes of clients: not first and second class, but ‘les anglais et les autres’. The diversity of activity enables the laundry machinery to be rapidly repaired, if necessary with parts specially made in the Wagons-Lits workshops, for the continuous functioning of the laundries is a vital part of the cars’ upkeep.
