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unusual facts about passenger car



Maco light

The tale associated the light with Joe Baldwin, a train conductor who was said to have been decapitated in a collision between a runaway passenger car and a locomotive at Maco, along the Wilmington and Manchester Railroad, in the late 1800s.

Martin P. Blomberg

From 1925 to 1935, Blomberg worked for the Pullman Company, where he was responsible for the construction of railroad truck frames and passenger car bodies.

Vehicle size class

Passenger car classes are defined based on interior volume index or


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Astura

The Lancia Astura, a passenger car produced by Italian automobile manufacturer Lancia between 1931 and 1939

Autobianchi

Even though a new, modern facility was constructed in Desio after the war, economic conditions forced Giuseppe not to resume passenger car production, but rather to focus on bicycles, motorcycles and commercial vehicles.

Einheits-PKW der Wehrmacht

The medium off-road passenger car was built by the Opelwerk Brandenburg (chassis only), Wanderer in Siegmar-Schönau (today a part of Chemnitz), and Horch in Zwickau (both members of Auto Union).

Ephraim Francis Baldwin

Perhaps the best known are the passenger car shop in Baltimore that is now the central roundhouse at the B&O Railroad Museum, the passenger station at Point of Rocks, Maryland and the B&O Warehouse at Camden Yards in Baltimore.

Formula Rolon

Notable race modifications from the passenger car engine include a re-chipped ECU supplied by GM India, K&N Air filter and tuned Free flow Exhaust pipes while the Head, Block and Camshaft remained the same as in Stock.

Mitsubishi 500

The Mitsubishi 500 was the first passenger car produced after the Second World War by Shin Mitsubishi Heavy-Industries, Ltd, one of the companies which would become Mitsubishi Motors.

Railway accidents in Vietnam

February 8, 2007 – An express train collides with a "passenger car" in Khánh Hòa Province, killing 13 people and injuring 24, most of whom were returning home on the occasion of Tết.

Sleeper car

Sleeping car, a railroad passenger car that can accommodate its passengers in beds

Torsion bar suspension

The most famous American passenger car application was the Chrysler system used beginning with the 1957 model year, although Chrysler's "Torsion-Aire" suspension was only for the front; the same basic system (longitudinal mounting) was maintained until the 1981 introduction of the K-car.

Toyota Avanza

The second generation Avanza is featured with increased dimensions and a more passenger car like design and has launched on November 7, 2011 in Jakarta, Indonesia.

Walter de Silva

Walter Maria de Silva (born 27 February 1951 in Lecco, Italy) is an Italian car designer who is currently Head of Volkswagen Group Design, and is currently responsible for oversight on the design of all Volkswagen Group passenger car brands including Audi, Volkswagen, SEAT, Škoda as well as Bentley, Lamborghini and Bugatti.

WZLO

Under its previous ownership, WDME referred to itself on-air as, "The only radio station in the world broadcasting from a railroad passenger car." WDME's studios were located in a converted Amtrak coach formerly situated beside Routes 6 and 15 to the north and west of Dover-Foxcroft.

ZF 9HP transmission

Land Rover & Jeep will demonstrate the world's first nine-speed automatic transmissions for a passenger car at the 2013 Geneva Motor Show.