Bombardier receives commuter car order from Metro-North Railroad.

PLATTSBURGH, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 27, 1996--Bombardier Corp., a subsidiary of Montreal-based Bombardier Inc., today was awarded an order by MTA Metro-North Railroad, an agency of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority of New York, for the manufacture and supply of 15 commuter coaches.

The order, valued at approximately 16 million U.S. dollars, represents the exercise of an option held by Metro-North Railroad under a contract which was signed in September 1994. It raises the total value of the original contract to about 59 million U.S. dollars.

The vehicles, which feature central doors to facilitate passenger boarding and wheelchair accessibility, will be manufactured by Bombardier's Mass Transit Division at its La Pocatiere, Quebec and Plattsburgh, New York facilities. Deliveries are expected to begin in May 1997.

Bombardier became a supplier of Metro-North Railroad in 1981. Delivery of the new order will bring to 155 the number of commuter cars supplied by Bombardier to this authority.

The Mass Transit Division is a member of Bombardier's Transportation Group. Based in Saint-Bruno, Quebec, the Transportation Group is the leading supplier of passenger railcars in North America, operating plants in La Pocatiere, Quebec, Thunder Bay and Kingston, Ontario, Barre, Vermont, Plattsburgh and Auburn, New York, and Sahagun, Mexico. It offers a complete range of urban, suburban and intercity vehicles - subway cars, light rail vehicles, self-propelled commuter cars, automated rapid transit systems, intercity cars - as well as turnkey rail transit systems worldwide. The Transportation Group is also responsible for all of Bombardier's European operations in the field of transportation equipment, through Bombardier Eurorail which combines the activities of ANF-Industrie (France), BN Division (Belgium), Bombardier-Wien Schienenfahrzeuge (Austria), Bombardier Prorail (United Kingdom) and Waggonfabrik Talbot (Germany).

Bombardier Inc. is a Canadian corporation engaged in design, development, manufacturing and marketing activities in the fields of transportation equipment, civil and military aerospace, and motorized consumer products. The Montreal-based corporation operates plants in Canada, the United States, Mexico, Austria, Belgium, Finland, France, Germany and the United Kingdom, employing 40,000 people. Bombardier's business volume now totals 7.1 billion Canadian dollars, and more than 85 percent of the Corporation's revenues are made in markets outside Canada.

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