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2. Black+Decker - Wikipedia

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   1910 – "The Black & Decker Manufacturing Company" was founded by S. Duncan Black (1883–1951) and Alonzo G. Decker (1884–1956) as a small machine shop in Baltimore in September. Decker, who had only a seventh grade education, had met Black in 1906, when they were both 23-year-old workers at the Rowland Telegraph Company.

3. Black & Decker Workmate - Wikipedia

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   Black & Decker had trouble keeping up with demand for the Workmate in the UK, but was still unconvinced of how well the Workmate would be accepted in the United States. As a test of demand, the UK-manufactured Workmate WM325 was introduced to the United States market in 1974 as the Model 79-001 Type E ("E" for England).

4. Double-stack rail transport - Wikipedia

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   The tracks are entirely grade-separated and have a generous loading gauge of 3,660 mm (12 ft 1 ⁄ 8 in) width and 7,100 mm (23 ft 3 + 1 ⁄ 2 in) maximum height allowing for the double-stacked shipping container on flatcars to be transported, in contrast to wellcars used in other countries for double-stack rail transport. [57]

5. Bilevel rail car - Wikipedia

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   Voiture à impériale. Double deck carriages date to at least as early as the second half of the 19th century. In France several hundred voitures à impériale with seats on the roof were in use by the Chemins de fer de l'Ouest, Chemins de fer de l'Est and Chemins de fer du Nord by 1870, having been in use for over 2 decades; the upper deck was open at the sides with a light roof or awning ...

6. Double-decker bus - Wikipedia

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   The earliest double-decker horse-drawn omnibus appeared in Paris in 1853 and such vehicles were motorised in the 1900s. [3] Double-decker buses were popularised in Great Britain at the start of the 20th century [ 4 ] and today the best-known example is the red London bus , namely the AEC Routemaster . [ 5 ]

7. Three-decker - Wikipedia

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   Three-decker Britannia in Portsmouth Harbour, 1835 Batteries of the 118-gun Océan. A three-decker was a sailing warship which carried her principal carriage-mounted guns on three fully armed decks. Usually additional (smaller) guns were carried on the upper works (forecastle and quarterdeck), but this was not a continuous battery and so did ...