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A streamliner is a vehicle incorporating streamlining in a shape providing reduced air resistance. The term is applied to high-speed railway trainsets of the 1930s to 1950s, and to their successor " bullet trains ".
The term streamliner generally refers to a vehicle incorporating streamlining in a shape providing reduced air resistance Wikimedia Commons has media related to Streamliners . Subcategories
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The NSU Delphin III streamliner motorcycle set the motorcycle land speed record in 1956. Wilhelm Herz rode the machine to 211.4 miles per hour (340.2 km/h) at Bonneville Speedway in Utah, to break 200 mph (320 km/h) for the first time. [5]
Wynns Stormer is a streamliner dragster. [1]Built in 1972 by Woody Gilmore (who also produced Don Prudhomme's wedge digger), on a Woody chassis, [2] the car had bicycle front wheels and dropped front axle, a very pointed nose, and an engine cover with broad, wedge-like fairings over the exhaust pipes, ahead of the rear tires; the fairings sloped steeply from track level to the top of the tires.
The Lambky Liner is a motorcycle land-speed record streamliner designed by Navy veteran and Vincent motorcycle restorer Max Lambky from Kansas, United States. [3] It reached a top recorded speed of 250 mph (400 km/h) at the 2007 International Motorcycle Speed Trials, [1] and an estimated 275 mph (443 km/h) in second gear before a supercharger spindle broke and spoiled a run in 2008.