I let up on the accelerator, only to gradually reach again the 60 m.p.h. which would, I hoped, overhaul Herry and the blonde, and as there were cars whose drivers apparently had something more important to catch than had I, Mrs. Major Roebuck settled down to practicing on Corporal Johnson the kittenish wiles she would need when making her duty call on Colonel and Mrs. Somebody in Sante Fe.

While she was thus engaged, McFeeley questioned her about her whereabouts the previous day, any recollections she had of people hanging around, of overcurious delivery boys or repairmen, of strange cars cruising the neighborhood.

The cars, with their load of howling men, had disappeared in the distance.

There had been two more cars parked at the farm, a Plymouth and a pickup truck.

The cars must have had their gas pedals pushed down to the floor boards.

Old Mr. Thom himself had stopped at the service station for a grease job, Wally confessed, and couldn't get one because there were cars on the pits waiting to be repaired.

His recent experience in motor car advertising, a love for cars of themselves, the existence of A-Z's useless Wisconsin set-up, exposure to exciting conceptions of Hamrick's that nobody would buy, and the coincidental recent failure of a respected but out-dated small-car manufacturer called Ticonderoga Motors had given him an idea of such dimensions he was almost afraid to broach it.

Many industries, notably textiles, firearms, clocks and watches, buttons, horse-drawn vehicles, railroad cars and locomotives, sewing machines, and bicycles, saw expeditious improvement in materials handling, machining, and assembly during the 19th century, although modern concepts such as industrial engineering and logistics had not yet been named.

Commercial farming became viable in the area once the grain trade had developed technologies to handle the bulk export of grain, especially hopper cars and grain elevators.

Carnegie started as a telegrapher and by the 1860s had investments in railroads, railroad sleeping cars, bridges and oil derricks.

He was an honorary citizen of Zwickau and had a street named for his Audi cars in both Zwickau and his birthplace Winningen.

Some of these vehicles were among the last of a consignment of ex-Royal Navy armored cars that had been serving in the Middle East since 1915.

The two had joined forces as Bamford & Martin the previous year to sell cars made by Singer from premises in Callow Street, London where they also serviced GWK and Calthorpe vehicles.

In 1980 Aston-Martin had plans, which did not materialise, to buy MG, which they would have utilised as a sister marque, probably building smaller sports cars.

Until the Ford era cars had been produced by hand coachbuilding craft methods, such as the English wheel.

On 19 July 2007, the Newport Pagnell plant rolled out its last car, a Vanquish S. Nearly 13, 000 cars had been made there since 1955.

American League President Ban Johnson said a recalculation showed that Cobb had won the race anyway, and Chalmers ended up awarding cars to both players.

Some Mark 1 catering cars had mixed bogies — a B5 under the kitchen end, and a B4 under the seating end.

He had radio-telephones in all his cars at a time when these devices were uncommon and expensive.

In the 1960s, Brabham was the world's largest manufacturer of open wheel racing cars for sale to customer teams, and had built more than 500 cars by 1970.

Brabham had a poor season, scoring only four points, and — having run his own private Coopers in non-championship events during 1961 — left the company in 1962 to drive for his own team: the Brabham Racing Organisation, using cars built by Motor Racing Developments.

By the end of 1940 all of the Indian cavalry had been mechanised, receiving light tanks, armoured cars or 15cwt trucks.

In 1883 the New York and Brooklyn Bridge Railway was opened, which had a most curious feature: though it was a cable car system, it used steam locomotives to get the cars into and out of the terminals.

The VAZ factory is one of the biggest in the world, with over of production lines, and is unique in that most of the components for the cars are made in-house.

The guano diggers constructed a unique railroad on Malden Island, with cars powered by large sails.

The first serious investigation of using a gas turbine in cars was in 1946 when two engineers, Robert Kafka and Robert Engerstein of Carney Associates, a New York engineering firm, came up with the concept where a unique compact turbine engine design would provide power for a rear wheel drive car.

Until Ocean Grove's municipal authority was folded into Neptune Township in 1981, it boasted a set of unique laws, including one that made it illegal on Sundays to have cars on the streets of Ocean Grove.

In 1932 in a bold move during the Great Depression it acquired unique Bullet cars in an attempt to revive business.

Versatile Vehicle Architecture ( VVA ) is an effort by the Lotus car manufacturing company to reduce the investment needed for producing unique, niche-market cars by sharing a number of common components.

The practice of selling unique MG sports cars alongside badge-engineered models ( by now Rovers ) continued.

Because of the need for motor oils with unique qualities, many modern cars for the European market will demand a specific OEM-only oil standard.

The dome dining cars were unique to Union Pacific and were only operated on this train and the City of Los Angeles.

His unique design skills have created very powerful engines for his cars, especially his ( in the film ) prized " Mach " Series, giving them the ability to travel at high speeds while at the same time sustaining maximum performance.

However, due to the cars special nature and demanding customer base, the trim and technical specifications of some examples can be unique.

Handbuilt model cars are a unique market, usually in 1 / 43rd scale and created by Manufacturers such as Marsh Models, SMTS, Somerville, K & R Replicas etc., these patterns for the relevant subjects are made by skilled Pattern makers in various materials and various scales, see bottom of page for link

Arcade style racing games put fun and a fast-paced experience above all else, as cars usually compete in unique ways.

These unique rail cars were developed in partnership with Bombardier Transportation.

Dining cars enhance the familiar restaurant experience with the unique visual entertainment of the ever-changing view.

Berger attributed this to Ferrari's unique semi-automatic paddle shift gearbox, saying that his return would have been delayed if Ferrari still used the traditional gear stick transmission used in all the other F1 cars in 1989.

Exceptions in this region include bilevel passenger rail cars that run on the Long Island Rail Road ( LIRR ), New Jersey Transit ( NJ Transit ), and Boston's MBTA Commuter Rail ( MBTA ), all of which were built to unique designs to clear specific structure gauge problems on those systems.

This car shared the engines ( 2. 0 I4, 2. 5 V6 ), transmissions, suspension ( partially ) and floorpans from the Mondeo, but the body shell was unique to the Cougar, and was one of the last Ford cars to be designed under Ford's New Edge philosophy.

The Los Angeles-to-San Diego portion of the Pacific Surfliner route was once served by the Santa Fe's San Diegan passenger trains ( see " Operations " below ) until Amtrak took over the route in the 1970s keeping the " San Diegan " moniker until the Pacific Surfliner name was bestowed on the route on June 1, 2000, as part of a new marketing campaign ( and short-lived new casual-style uniforms for crew ) reflecting the line's more frequent service north of Los Angeles and new bi-level cars with unique livery manufactured by Alstom that replaced Horizon cars, bi-level California Cars manufactured by Morrison-Knudson, and the Amfleet cars previously assigned to the route.

Others have unique layouts, such as gullwing doors, 3 or 6 ( or more ) wheels, or special abilities not usually found on cars.

The unique whine of the motors and gear assemblies can lead many to mistake the cars for using thyristor drive or even a variable-frequency drive, but this is not the case.

The following years saw dozens of new PCC cars on the streets, although the first one remained unique in the fleet because it was the only one to have air brakes.