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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 ...
The VAC cars were converted to a sleeping car interior; the VFS and VFX cars were largely unchanged, though two compartments in the VFX cars were reserved for staff. In 1964 3 and 4VFS each had a single compartment (second from the men's end) cleared out and converted to a supplementary food servery, to handle overflow from the buffet cars.
The carriage had four wheels, a long body with two seats (face to face), and a folding hood over the rear seat. The body could be converted to sleep two people full length. There was an elevated seat for the driver in front and a rear platform with a rumble seat for servants [1] [2] [3]
Pullman-Standard built its last sleeping car in 1956 [17] and its last lightweight passenger cars in 1965, an order of ten coaches for Kansas City Southern. [18] The company continued to market and build cars for commuter rail and subway service and Superliners for Amtrak as late as the late 1970s and early 1980s.
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]
The remainder of the car was split into three waiting rooms with folding seats; these rooms were 3 ft 6.625 in (1.08 m) 7 ft 3.25 in (2.22 m) and 5 ft 11.25 in (1.81 m) respectively. The car was scrapped on 29 May 1939, and replaced with the former dining car Wimmera as the new Medical and Test Vision Car.