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.

Four cars were parked at the curb, and two of them were police radio cars.

Although his tender nights were not the ones I dreamed of, nor was it for yachts, sports cars, tall drinks, and swimming pools, nor yet for money or what money buys that I burned, I too was burning and watching myself burn.

Modern warfare was born in this campaign -- periscopes, camouflage, booby traps, land mines, extended order, trench raids, foxholes, armored cars, night attacks, flares, sharpshooters in trees, interlaced vines and treetops, which were the forerunners of barbed wire, trip wires to thwart a cavalry charge, which presaged the mine trap, and the general use of anesthetics.

Lucius Beebe's book, `` Mr. Pullman's Elegant Palace Car '', fills us with nostalgia, recalling days when private cars and Pullmans were extra wonderful, with fine woodwork, craftsmanship in construction, deep carpets and durable upholstery.

In contrast to the caravan of the previous night, there were only four cars parked across the street.

In a way, we may be witnessing the same thing in the sales of automobiles today as the public no longer is willing to purchase any car coming on the market but is more insistent on compact cars free of the frills which were accepted in the Fifties.

A plume of smoke rose from a Central Vermont locomotive which idled behind a string of gravel cars, and little figures that were workmen labored to set the ruptured roadbed to rights.

In seconds all four cars were out of sight.

When the two cars were equidistant from him, the station wagon started up again and the Ford gathered speed.

Dr. Barnes said that there seemed to be feeling that evacuation plans, even for a high school where there were lots of cars `` might not be realistic and would not work ''.

Both cars were slightly damaged.

This year-to-year decline for Dallas County closely follows the national trend -- estimated sales of domestic cars in the U.S. for first three months of 1961 were about 1,212,000 or 80 per cent of the total in the first quarter a year earlier.

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.

Their cars weren't small enough, they didn't have the power, they were old-fashioned.

The official winners were Peugeot and Panhard as cars were judged on their speed, handling and safety characteristics, and De Dion's steam car needed a stoker which was forbidden.

Armoured cars were put into use by the British on the Western Front.

The first AFVs were armoured cars, dating back virtually to the invention of the motor car.

Train cars were hauled by teams of horses along Atlantic Street from Clinton Street to Parmentier's Garden, where steam locomotives were attached.

These were not ' armored cars ' in the sense implied by the modern term, as they provided no real protection for their crews against any kind of opposing fire.

The agencies of government are now billed for the actual cost of services provided to each passenger car rather than the prior uniform charge for all cars.

In that ownership of all vehicles rests with the state motor pool, cars are paid for with funds appropriated to the agencies but transferred to the rotary fund mentioned earlier.

The disadvantages to this method are that you may not have as great a choice of models readily available or you may have to wait a few days or, during the busy tourist season, when cars are in great demand, you might find it fairly difficult to get a car at all.

All model cars are not available in all countries.

Canada alone has been somewhat out of step with the Oslo attempt to get all the allied cars back on the track behind the NATO locomotive.

Between the years 1926 and 1937 Bertelli was the technical director of Aston Martin, and the designer of all subsequent Aston Martin cars during this period, these being known as the " Bertelli cars ".

However, sales of production cars were now at an all time low of 30 cars produced in 1982.

On 4 March 2008, in announcing a partnership with Magna Steyr to outsource manufacture of over 2, 000 cars annually at Graz, Austria, the company stated " The continuing growth and success of the company is based upon Gaydon as the focal point and heart of the business, with the design and engineering of all Aston Martin products continuing to be carried out there.

In modern brickworks, this is usually done in a continuously fired tunnel kiln, in which the bricks move slowly through the kiln on conveyors, rails, or kiln cars to achieve consistency for all bricks.

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

Such transactions can be difficult, but in 2010, reforms approved by a Communist Party congress were expected to legalize the sale between Cuban citizens of all cars, as well as real estate.

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

He later recalled the moving map of the " America of Tomorrow " exhibit: " It showed beautiful highways and cloverleaves and little General Motors cars all carrying people to skyscrapers, buildings with lovely spires, flying buttresses — and it looked great!

NASCAR also made the use of the HANS device mandatory in all cars following Earnhardt's death.

If all we do is worry about the other cars in the race, we will definitely lose .”

' Looking back, we wish we had started using Nissan on all of our cars ,' he says.

* If is the set of all cars, and is the equivalence relation " has the same color as ", then one particular equivalence class consists of all green cars.

Flying cars fall into one of two styles ; integrated ( all the pieces can be carried in the vehicle ), or modular ( the aeronautical sections are left at the airport when the vehicle is driven ).

The " formula ", designated in the name, refers to a set of rules with which all participants ' cars must comply.

The large windows were shattered into sharp teeth, bricks were scattered and junked cars were painted with clouds of black spray.

Much like their Type 2 counterparts, Beetles were psychedelically painted and considered an ancestor of art cars.

These cars are painted black and silver.

The Paris Fish Hatchery opened in 1881, and from 1913 to 1938, salmon and brown trout fingerlings were shipped by rail baggage cars in milk cans painted a distinctive red.

Three Ford Galaxie police cars, painted to resemble those used on the show, give rides to tourists.

Pullman cars were normally a dark " Pullman green ," although some were painted in the host railroad's colors.

The SL & RG is primarily a freight operation, on former Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad track, but owns and operates a steam locomotive and a fleet of passenger cars, most of which are painted in D & RGW colors.

Some dealerships painted their cars on delivery to help make theirs more distinctive.

DMC was testing the use of translucent paint to help provide different color options on the cars while also allowing the stainless steel grain to show through, but no cars were sold with factory painted body panels.

Most cars survived the war but nevertheless the coaches in Western Germany were painted over and rebuilt to dining coaches Gesellschaftwagen, long distance coaches ( F trains ) and short distance train coaches ( D trains ).

All production cars were painted in the same colour-Silver Starfire, and featured a largely black interior with silver-grey cloth seats.

* Factory galvanised chassis from production number 372-442 ( earlier cars had a painted steel chassis )

At the launch of their new car BAR unveiled separate liveries for their cars ; Villeneuve's car painted in a white and red Lucky Strike livery and Zonta's carrying a blue and yellow 555 livery.

To get around the ban BAR ran one side of their cars painted in the Lucky Strike colors, and the other side in the blue and yellow of 555.

The cars range from imaginatively painted vehicles to extravagant fantasies whose original bodies are concealed beneath newly sculptured shells " ( from Petersen Automotive Museum's Spring 2003 Los Angeles, California exhibit Wild Wheels: Art for the Road Gallery Guide )

All the cars were painted solid black with a tan leather interior and had 5-speed manual transmissions.

Police cars in China have variation of black and white scheme similar to Japan, in that the top half of the car is painted white, and the bottom half is black.

Now painted blue and thus known as the Blue straight-sixes and Holden V8s, these replaced the Red units fitted to the VB and earlier cars.

When producing the replicas, Ford painted the entire car white, then masked off the stripe and painted the rest of the car the shade of bright red ( code 2B ) used on the 1972 – 75 models ( and subsequently the TV cars ); this color had been discontinued for all other Torino models for 1976 in favor of a different shade of red.

All cars in these series are painted white with red trim, and use manually operated exterior roll signs.

" The passenger cars of the Pennsylvania Railroad were painted Tuscan Red.

The most notable was the Santa Fe which in the 1970s started a rebuild program for their cabooses in which the cars were painted bright red with an eight-foot-diameter Santa Fe cross herald emblazoned on each side in yellow.