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The Lotus Carlton, a high-performance version of the Vauxhall Carlton/Opel Omega A executive car. A sleeper (American English) or Q-car (British English) is a car that boasts high performance while having an unassuming exterior. [1] [2] [3] Sleepers are usually developed on the platform of a non-athletic class of vehicle, most often that of an ...
Buick Regal GS. According to Motor1, Buick has a history of building sleepers.This 2018 Buick Regal GS has a 3.6-liter V-6 engine making 310 horsepower and an excellent chassis. See: 10 New Cars ...
Pullman sleeping car, original to the William Crooks locomotive, on display in Duluth, Minnesota. The sleeping car or sleeper (often wagon-lit) is a railway passenger car that can accommodate all passengers in beds of one kind or another, for the purpose of sleeping. George Pullman was the American innovator of the sleeper car. [citation needed]
After World War II the 10-roomette 6-double bedroom (colloquially the "10-6 sleeper") design proved popular in the United States, with 682 such cars manufactured. [2]: 153 All fifty Pacific series cars were built on Budd lot number 9660.039, and allocated Pullman Plan 9522. In this design the ten roomettes were numbered 1-10 and split down the ...
The Slumbercoach is an 85-foot-long, 24 single room, eight double room streamlined sleeping car.Built in 1956 by the Budd Company for the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad for service on the Denver Zephyr, subsequent orders were placed in 1958 and 1959 by the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad and Missouri Pacific Railroad for the Texas Eagle/National Limited, then in 1959 by the Northern ...
When we talk about EVs, we’re usually talking about cars. But with electric aircraft buzzing around in the news, will that be the next big sector to keep an eye on? Well, in truth, we think ...
The Sun Lounges were a fleet of three streamlined sleeper-lounge cars built by Pullman-Standard for the Seaboard Air Line Railroad (SAL) in 1956. The cars featured a distinctive glazed roof area meant to capture the ambience of a dome car in a lower profile, as tunnels on the East Coast of the United States prevented the use of dome cars there.
The Manor series is a fleet of 42 lightweight streamlined sleeping cars built by the Budd Company for the Canadian Pacific Railway in 1954–1955. Each contained five bedrooms, one compartment, four sections and four roomettes. The cars were named for distinguished English Canadians.