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The company was founded in 1931 in Illinois as Sleeper, Inc. by 13 mattress manufacturers who licensed the Serta name. Subsequently, eight independent licensees acting like a cooperative owned the company. Afterwards, it was controlled and operated as Serta International by its largest licensee, National Bedding Company, which ultimately held ...
[3] [4] According to Furniture Today magazine, the company was number 48 among furniture retailers with around US$114 million in sales for its fiscal year ending August 29, 2009. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] It subsequently emerged from Chapter 11 under the control of its major supplier, the Haining Mengnu Group. [ 6 ]
A truck sleeper or sleeper cab is a compartment attached behind the cabin of a tractor unit used for rest or sleeping. [1] Origin. Early (1933) sleeper cab bed.
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A railway track (CwthE and UIC terminology) or railroad track (NAmE), also known as permanent way (CwthE) [1] or "P Way" (BrE [2] and Indian English), is the structure on a railway or railroad consisting of the rails, fasteners, sleepers (railroad ties in American English) and ballast (or slab track), plus the underlying subgrade.
The 1 ft 11 + 1 ⁄ 2 in (597 mm) gauge Lynton and Barnstaple Railway (1898 to 1935) in North Devon, experimented with concrete sleepers at a number of locations along the line. As the sleepers were cast to gauge, they were of little use outside the station areas on this very curvaceous line where gauge slackening was commonly required.