Front-wheel drive continued with the 1948 Citroën 2CV, where the air-cooled lightweight aluminium flat twin engine was mounted ahead of the front wheels, but used Hookes type universal joint driveshaft joints, and 1955 Citroën DS, featuring the mid-engine layout.

Underside of the chassis of a 1948 Motorola VT-71 7 " television, showing the complexity of the point to point wiring.

Bodies were manufactured at Beaumaris for installing on " Leyland Royal Tiger " and " Leyland Tiger Cub " chassis ; SARO bodied 250 RTs for London Transport between 1948 and 1950 ( RT 1152 – 1401 ), which were almost indistinguishable from the standard Weymann / Park Royal products ; and some double-deck buses for Liverpool Corporation.

Crosley introduced several " firsts " in the American automobile industry, including the first use of the term ' Sport Utility ' in 1948 ( albeit on an open model based on the wagon, not a wagon on a truck chassis ); first mass-market single overhead camshaft ( SOHC ) engine in 1946 ; first slab-sided postwar car, also in 1946 ; first all steel-bodied wagon in 1947 ; first American car to be fitted with 4-wheel caliper type disc brakes in the 1949 model year ( Chrysler Imperial introduced four-wheel disc brakes as standard equipment on Crown Imperials at the beginning of the 1949 model year, but they were not of the caliper type ); and the first American sports car, the Hotshot, in the 1949 model year.

The T26 Grand Sport ( GS ) was first displayed in public in October 1947 as a shortened chassis, and only 12 were made during 1948 which was the models's first full year of production.

Charlie Ryan actually owned a hot rod which consisted of a 1948 Lincoln 12-cylinder chassis shortened two feet and clad in a Model A Ford body, a hot rod that likely could trounce the Fords and Mercurys of the day.

Then HWM owners George Abecassis and John Heath went racing together from 1946 and in 1948 they built a streamlined sports racing car on the chassis of a Sports Alta, and thus embarked upon the construction of racing cars and racing sports cars at their motor works in Walton-on-Thames, England.

The final project of the ZSU-57-2 ( Ob ' yekt 500 ), armed with twin S-68s and based on a light-weight T-54 tank chassis, was finished in 1948.

For 1948, the Series 62 was moved to the same chassis as the Series 61, making the vehicles virtually identical.

The 356 was road certified in 1948.

Porsche 356 1948 Coupe Porsche-Museum

The first 356 was road certified in Austria on June 8, 1948, and used many Volkswagen parts for manufacturing economy.

Note that not all of the Croats in Vojvodina have Bunjevac roots ; the other big group are Šokci, and also, many Croats are descendants of Croat colonists, settled in 1945 – 1948 ( 29, 111 post-WWII colonists in Vojvodina, out of 356, 000, were ethnic Croats ).

* 1948 – 1965 Porsche 356

It took Porsche two years, starting with the first prototype in 1948, to manufacture the first 50 automobiles.

* Supermarine 510 ( 1948 ) – swept wing Attacker prototype

* Il-20 ( 1948 ) ground attack prototype, 1948.

* Il-32 cargo glider prototype, 1948.

In 1976, Richard Schickel cited his performance in Pitfall ( 1948 ) as a prototype of film noir in contrast with the appealing television characters for which Burr later became famous.

When the Soviet plans to build an atomic bomb became known in the west in 1948, this project was still long from being ready to produce even a prototype, and in March 1949 they started development of the North American F-86D Sabre and Lockheed F-94 Starfire as stop-gap measures.

* Wooler built a motorcycle prototype with a similar configuration to the Brough Superior Golden Dream and exhibited it at the British International Motor Show at Earls Court Exhibition Centre in 1948 and again in 1951.

After obtaining patent protection, the company held a news conference on June 30, 1948, at which a prototype transistor radio was demonstrated.

At the bottom of the lake is a Boeing B-29 Superfortress that crashed in 1948 while testing a prototype missile guidance system known as " suntracker ".

The 1948 prototype of the Hartnett ( car ) | Hartnett

The tank was designed at the Atelier de Construction d ' Issy-les-Moulineaux in 1946 to meet a requirement for an air-portable vehicle to support paratroopers, the first prototype ran from 1948.

* Tu-78 ( II ): prototype long-range reconnaissance variant of the Tu-73, 1948

* Tu-84: prototype reconnaissance aircraft, 1948

The first prototype took flight on April 23, 1948, and was certified by the Civil Aeronautics Administration ( CAA ) in June, 1950.

The XG prototype soldiered on as a component testbed until 1948.

* 1948: Winner, Spa 24 Hours ; prototype Aston Martin shared with St. John Horsfall.

* 1948 Gloster E. 1 / 44 single-seat jet day fighter prototype

The first S-68 prototype ( with ESP-76 electric drive ), was ready in 1948.

G Van 1948 prototype

The Citroën G Van was the 1948 prototype built by Citroën of a small truck which looked like a scaled down version of the H Van, and equipped with an enlarged version of the 2CV flat twin enlarged to 475 cc.

It was while working with Miller that Tucker had met chief mechanic John Eddie Offutt, who would later help him develop and build the first prototype of the 1948 Tucker Sedan.

A prototype A40 Dorset Tourer was built at Longbridge in 1948.

The car debuted at the 1948 London Motor Show and was based on the " Atom " prototype.

One example was recorded in 1948, by Buddy Kaye, Fred Wise, Sidney Lippman, and later Perry Como, called A, You're Adorable:

The Central Artery, as part of MassHighway's Master Plan of 1948, was originally planned to be the downtown Boston stretch of Interstate 95, and was signed as such ; a bypass road called the Inner Belt ( officially Interstate 695 ) was to pass around the downtown core to the west, through the neighborhood of Roxbury and the cities of Brookline, Cambridge, and Somerville.

Motley, who Brown in 1948 called " the greatest fullback that ever lived ," was the AAFC's all-time leading rusher.

Dutch physicists Hendrik B. G. Casimir and Dirk Polder at Philips Research Labs proposed the existence of a force between two polarizable atoms and between such an atom and a conducting plate in 1947, and, after a conversation with Niels Bohr who suggested it had something to do with zero-point energy, Casimir alone formulated the theory predicting a force between neutral conducting plates in 1948 ; the former is called the Casimir-Polder force while the latter is the Casimir effect in the narrow sense.

Then, on 1 July 1948, Tirana called on all Yugoslav technical advisors to leave the country and unilaterally declared all treaties and agreements between the two countries null and void.

Arevalo ’ s administration had called for new assessments in 1945, which had to be complete by 1948.

General Tiburcio Carías Andino was elected in 1932, he later on called a constituent assembly that allowed him to be reelected, and his rule became more authoritarian until an election in 1948.

However, many cognitive and behavioral therapies were themselves originally influenced by older hypnotherapy techniques, e. g., the systematic desensitisation of Joseph Wolpe, the cardinal technique of early behavior therapy, was originally called " hypnotic desensitisation " and derived from the Medical Hypnotism ( 1948 ) of Lewis Wolberg.

The 1948 Constitution of Italy establishes the parliament, an executive branch ( cabinet ), headed by the Prime Minister ( also called President of the Council ), and an independent judicial branch headed by the ' Consiglio Superiore della Magistratura '.

Menachen Begin was called a terrorist and a fascist by Albert Einstein and 27 other prominent Jewish intellectuals in a letter to the New York Times which was published on December 4, 1948.

* 1948 – The United States Air Force accepts its first female recruits into a program called Women in the Air Force ( WAF ).

The Jericho Conference, organized by King Abdullah and attended by over 2, 000 Palestinian delegates in 1948 proclaimed " His Majesty Abdullah as King of all Palestine " and called for " the unification of Palestine and Transjordan as a step toward full Arab unity.

Adenauer's leading role in the CDU of the British zone won him a position at the Parliamentary Council of 1948, called into existence by the Western Allies to draft a constitution for the three western zones of Germany.

The first of these shows were actually called Crazy People and subtitled " The Junior Crazy Gang "; the term " Goon " was used as the headline of a review of Bentine's act by Picture Post dated 5 November 1948.

Black September called the operation " Ikrit and Biram ", after two Christian Palestinian villages whose inhabitants were expelled by the Haganah in 1948.

Although original plans called for all-Korean elections sponsored by the United Nations in 1948, Kim persuaded the Soviets not to allow the UN north of the 38th parallel.

Between 1948 – 1950, the headquarters of the United Nations Reliefs and Works Agency ( UNRWA ) was located there and two years later, its owner turned it into a luxury hotel called " The New Orient House ".

The resolution from the UN General Assembly called for a UN-supervised general election in Korea, but with the North rejecting this proposition, a general election for a Constitutional Assembly was held in the South only, in May 1948.

At independence in 1948, Sri Lanka, then called Ceylon, was a Commonwealth realm, with the monarch represented by the Governor General.

Although the public practice of Satanism began in 1966 with the founding of the Church of Satan, some historical precedents exist: a group called the Ophite Cultus Satanas was founded in Ohio by Herbert Arthur Sloane in 1948.

United Nations Security Council Resolution 47, adopted in 1948, called for a plebiscite to decide the fate of Kashmir.

In 1948, three partners who were planning on starting a new popular science magazine, to be called The Sciences, purchased the assets of the old Scientific American instead and put its name on the designs they had created for their new magazine.

The last time this power was exercised was in 1948, when President Harry S. Truman called a special session of Congress.

William Ford Gibson ( born March 17, 1948 ) is an American-Canadian speculative fiction novelist who has been called the " noir prophet " of the cyberpunk subgenre.