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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 ]
Standard folding stadium seats (FCB in red and silver colors) in the National Stadium, Warsaw. A folding seat is a seat that folds away so as to occupy less space. When installed on a transit bus, it makes room for a wheelchair or two. When installed on a passenger car, it provides extra seating.
The New American Cyclopaedia of 1859 listed the assembly of furniture as an "American invention" [2] that emphasized ease of transport, but this claim is rather vague. A better claim to the earliest RTA furniture is the Thonet No. 14 bentwood chair , which was specifically made to be easily disassembled to save space during transportation. [ 3 ]
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Clockwise from top left: seat lug, upper head lug, lower head lug. This seat lug joins the seat tube, top tube, and seat stays of a steel touring bicycle frame. It also has an opening in which to insert the seat post, and a clamp to hold the seat post securely in place.
It could raise or lower the top in about 40 seconds. The retractable top was noted for its complexity and usual reliability in the pre-transistor era. [20] [21] 1989 Toyota introduced a retractable hardtop, the MZ20 Soarer Aerocabin. The car featured an electric folding hardtop and was marketed as a two-seater with a cargo area behind the front ...
A curule seat probably designed by Karl Friedrich Schinkel, made in carved wood and gilded ca. 1810 in Berlin, later restored and reupholstered by a private dealer. A curule seat is a design of a (usually) foldable and transportable chair noted for its uses in Ancient Rome and Europe through to the 20th century.
Buffer’s “Let’s get ready to rumble” is sometimes the most exciting part of the event. The phrase is so iconic that many boxing fans don’t feel like it’s a big fight unless Buffer has ...