found: Work cat.: A car called Constance : the history of the Gilbert cars from the days of the South Eastern Railway to those of the Southern Railway, c2007:p. 3 (In the last decades of the 19th century, there was a vogue on Britain's railways for American-style open saloon cars. The Pullman Car Company supplied many of the new style carriages, but other companies were involved, including Britain's own rolling-stock builders. This book traces the history of six American-style cars working the Kent coastal services from 1892 to 1930. The cars were twice rebuilt, and known variously during their lives as the Gilbert Cars, the Troy Cars, the American Cars, the American Car Train and the Hastings Car Train. When the Pullman Car company eventually acquired the cars, they were each given an individual name.)
found: Sussex County magazine WWW site, Feb. 27, 2009:vol. 29, 1955 (In 1892 the South Eastern Railway put on a train called the Hastings Car Train. It consisted of six American designed cars built by the Gilbert Car Manufacturing Co., of Troy, N.Y., and a standard South Eastern brake van. They were not strictly Pullman cars, since they were owned and operated by the S.E.R. In 1919 the South Eastern Gilbert and Metropolitan cars were taken over by the Pullman Car Co, and rebuilt in accordance with contemporary Pullman standards.)
