Bombardier Inc won an order for 40 metro cars worth about $55 million from India's Delhi Metro Rail Corp Ltd, the world's No 1 train manufacturer said on Friday.
The deal adds to last month's $101 million order by Delhi Metro for 74 cars.
Once the order is filled -- delivery is expected to end in 2011 -- Delhi Metro will be operating a fleet of 538 of Bombardier's MOVIA metro cars.
Montreal-based Bombardier, which is also the world's No 3 civil aircraft maker, has made expansion in India a priority. It signed its first contract with Delhi Metro in July 2007 and opened a manufacturing plant in Savli, Gujarat, in November 2008.
Once an expansion of the Delhi Metro is complete, the system will carry 2.5 million passengers a day and cover 165 km in the city of 16 million inhabitants.
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