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A loveseat can be one of two styles of two-seat chair. One form – also known as "British two-seaters" [1] – is essentially synonymous with "two-seat couch". It typically has two upholstered seats, [2] is approximately 50" in seating length, [3] and is typically shorter in length than a settee. [4]
Folding tops and side curtains for rumble seats were available for some cars [1] (including the two-door version of the Ford Model A) but never achieved much popularity. Among the last American-built cars with a rumble seat were the 1938 Chevrolet, [ 6 ] the 1939 Ford [ 7 ] and 1939 Dodge [ 8 ] and Plymouth. [ 9 ]
J. G. Schneider of Chicago invented and patented two types of adjustable car to meet the demand from many railroads for reconstructing their old cars, and also to accommodate those smaller companies who desired open and closed cars but who did not feel justified in maintaining two full sets of rolling stock. [1]
Cars were to be approximately 48 ft (14.6 m) long (the Chicago maximum, Boston had some 55 ft (16.8 m) long) with one cab per car arranged in "married" two car sets, a double ended single car variant was possible. Number and type of doors and windows, interior layout, and width of cars varied with each system.
Of these, sets 22, 26 and 28 had a single BTH and BCH car each with the middle four cars assorted BIH and BH types; the other sets had two BTH, two BCH and one or two of the BH and BIH types. Long-van cars BCH134 and BCH135 were used in the middle of sets SSH27 and SSH31, and the 75ft long cars formed the east end of sets SLH32 and SLH33.
The name Amphicar is a portmanteau of "amphibious" and "car." A spiritual descendant of the Volkswagen Schwimmwagen , [ 3 ] and the Trippel SG6 , the Amphicar offered only modest performance compared to most contemporary boats or cars, featured navigation lights and flag as mandated by the US Coast Guard – and after operation in water ...
It was produced in two lengths from 1956 to 1961. [2] It consists of a metal frame with round discs of covered foam, or "marshmallows", spread across the seat and back in a lattice arrangement. The sofa, in the smaller of the two sizes, was re-issued in the 1980s as part of the "Herman Miller Classics" line and continues in production today.
The driver of the car and six passengers were killed and at least fifteen were injured. Car 4333 was destroyed in the subsequent fire. [11] On October 8, 2016, an M7 train on the Long Island Rail Road's Port Jefferson Branch sideswiped a work train near the New Hyde Park station. Multiple cars – 7033, 7034, and 7044 – were seriously damaged ...