The popemobile most often used by Pope Benedict XVI when traveling abroad is a modified Mercedes-Benz M-Class sport utility vehicle with a special glass-enclosed " room " that has been built into the back of the vehicle.

The term pyx is also a standard term used in the Catholic Church to refer to a flat, circular container, sometimes called a lunette, composed of a ring of metal ( usually lined with gold ) holding two glass or crystal disks, to create a round, flat, glass-enclosed space for the Eucharistic Host.

The massive, glass-enclosed Wahlert Atrium built following the fire has since become the main symbol of the school.

Two years later, the speedway announced the completion of the Monster Bridge, which is a glass-enclosed structure that has 56 seats over the third turn, and its fall Sprint Cup Series race became the second race in the newly formed, Chase for the Sprint Cup.

The shuttle platform has another short staircase that goes down to a glass-enclosed bridge above Fulton Street.

The vessel was then marked as a miniature cruise ship, complete with an elevator, a sweeping interior staircase, interior areas on four different decks, an enlarged gift shop, a food court with a brick pizza oven, four different bars, and a buffet restaurant in a two-deck-tall, glass-enclosed room.

A pilothouse or pilot-house is a glass-enclosed room from which a ship is controlled by the ship's pilot.

The glass-enclosed room contains a lounge and a bar.

In 1992, Manual began a $ 3. 5 million renovation of the main building which included a new roof and a glass-enclosed cafeteria for juniors and seniors.

Helfferich Hall now includes completely renovated locker and training rooms, and a two-story, glass-enclosed area for fitness and recreation.

thumb The glass-enclosed press box, located on the stadium ’ s west side, was renovated in 1997 and features closed-circuit television monitors for replays.

To plan for the celebration of the United States Bicentennial in 1976, the NPS relocated the Liberty Bell from Independence Hall to the glass-enclosed Liberty Bell Pavilion, as the Independence Hall could not accommodate the millions expected to visit Philadelphia that year.

In the fall of 2005, ground was broken for renovations that would turn the central court into a glass-enclosed galleria.

A gas discharge tube ( GDT ) is a sealed glass-enclosed device containing a special gas mixture trapped between two electrodes, which conducts electric current after becoming ionized by a high voltage spike.

Two ball-shaped floats and two glass-enclosed reed switch es are visible inside this cutaway view of a Buchholz relay

The central invention was a primitive computer, or " shopping brain " which was loaned the shopper, who then roams among the store's glass-enclosed items.

The glass-enclosed central stacks ( not accessible to the public ) can be flooded with a mix of Halon 1301 and Inergen fire suppressant gas if fire detectors are triggered.

A new design was unveiled, combining a large square glass-enclosed atrium with a triangular tower and a circular walkway.

The towers were simple rectangular boxes with a non-hierarchical wall enclosure, raised on stilts above a glass-enclosed lobby.

The space serves as an indoor / outdoor sculpture gallery and is connected to the museum's fifth-floor galleries by a glass-enclosed bridge.

Knight Ridder's legacy is a massive $ 199 million, two-block long, glass-enclosed printing and distribution plant on the northeast side of the Stars landmark red brick headquarters at 1729 Grand Avenue.

Prior to that, street vendors used to sell pretzels on street corners in wooden glass-enclosed cases.

These proved popular, leading to the development of dome cars multiple units of which could be placed mid-train, and featured a glass-enclosed upper level extending above the normal roof to provide passengers with a better view.

It is 40 meters tall, with the glass-enclosed playing console and observatory about 25 meters from the ground.

A six-story above-ground glass-enclosed tower of book stacks is surrounded by a windowless rectangular outer shell, supported only on four massive piers at the corners of the building, which descend 50 feet to bedrock.

A glass-enclosed multilevel restaurant named the " Terrace Club " is located along the left field foul line on the suite level.

The third part of the Harborplace complex, located across Pratt Street from the Harbor, is a four-story glass-enclosed building known as The Gallery at Harborplace, which opened in 1988 and which is attached to Baltimore's Renaissance Hotel.

There is new teashop and patisserie, called Savoy Tea, and a glass-enclosed fitness gallery with pool, gym and spa, located above the Savoy Theatre.

Both terminals now feature unique, recognizable " towers ," which contain elevators and staircases connecting the terminal buildings to glass-enclosed walkways.

The second floor includes the glass-enclosed library, with a two-story information commons, four group study rooms and 11 offices among the features.

The renovated museum includes a new, glass-enclosed courtyard designed by Foster + Partners, the architecture firm of renowned architect Norman Foster.

One glass-enclosed clubhouse serves all three courses, and it includes a restaurant open to all park users known as Ruthie's Grill.

This can often be seen on tour buses in China, where the company name customarily runs from the front of the vehicle to its rear — that is, from right to left on the right side of the bus, and from left to right on the left side of the bus.

On these vehicles, the hull deck comprises the main portion of the tread way while ramps extend from the front and rear of the vehicle to allow other vehicles to climb over the bridging vehicle and cross obstacles.

* M60 AVLM-Armored Vehicle Launched MICLIC ( Mine-Clearing Line Charge ), modified M60 AVLB with up to 2 MICLIC mounted over the rear of the vehicle.

weapons laboratory, as well as a custom-built battle van, constructed by the Wakanda Design Group with the ability to change its color for disguise purposes ( red, white and blue ), and fitted to store and conceal the custom motorcycle in its rear section with a frame that allows Rogers to launch from the vehicle riding it.

The smaller engines were commonly air-cooled and located at the rear of the vehicle ; compression ratios were relatively low.

Some early hearses also served as ambulances, owing to the large cargo capacity in the rear of the vehicle.

In Japan, hearses, called " reikyusha " ( 霊柩車 ), can come in two styles: " Foreign " style, which is similar in build and style to an American hearse, or a " Japanese " style, in which the rear area of the vehicle is modified to resemble a small, ornate Buddhist temple.

This generally requires the rear of the vehicle to be extensively altered ; commonly, the rear roof is cut away from the front windows back and all interior parts are removed from the rear as well.

The ornate Buddhist-style rear area, generally constructed of wood and in which the casket or urn is placed, is built on top of this empty cavity and most often is wider than the base of the vehicle, so that it sticks out on the sides, over the rear body panels.

In 2010 Mexico displayed a wagon variant with a second gun hatch to cover the rear of the vehicle.

Some vehicles mount more machine guns ; for example on the German Marder, one machine gun fires from the rear of the vehicle, and the Russian BMP-3 has two machine guns mounted in the hull facing forward.

Jeepneys were built from Jeeps by lengthening and widening the rear " tub " of the vehicle, allowing more passengers to ride.

Depending on the rules of the class, many types of open-wheelers have wings at the front and rear of the vehicle, as well as a very low and virtually flat undertray that helps achieve additional aerodynamic downforce pushing the car onto the road.

However, most spacecraft today are propelled by forcing a gas from the back / rear of the vehicle at very high speed through a supersonic de Laval nozzle.

The USA 2. 5X model has been certified PZEV emissions ( Rated instead ), and a badge has been attached to the rear of the vehicle on the bottom left-hand side of the tailgate.

The Forester XTI concept vehicle uses the 2. 5 liter intercooled turbo engine from Subaru WRX STI, 6-speed manual transmission, 18 x 8-inch S204 forged alloy wheels with Yokohama Advan Neova 255 / 40R18 performance tires, adjustable coil-over suspension, Brembo brakes with 4-piston front calipers, 2-piston rear calipers, Super Sport ABS and Electronic Brake-force Distribution ( EBD ), leather and Alcantara sport seats, a special instrument cluster, front dash and center console and leather-wrapped steering wheel.

A semi-trailer does not trail completely behind the towing vehicle, but is attached at a point that is just forward of the rear-most axle of the towing unit, so that some fraction of the weight of the trailer is carried by the prime mover, with most of that at the rear axle ( s ) and a small amount at the front axle ( s ) of the prime mover.

The tractor-semitrailer configuration is rarely used on timber trucks, since these will use the two big advantages of having the weight of the load on the drive wheels, and the loader crane used to lift the logs from the ground can be mounted on the rear of the truck behind the load, allowing a short ( lightweight ) crane to reach both ends of the vehicle without uncoupling.

By tracing the Vehicle Identification Number ( VIN ) of a rear axle found in the wreckage, the FBI identified the vehicle as a Ryder Rental box truck rented from Junction City, Kansas.

A crane is mounted at the rear of the vehicle.

" The stop occurred south of what was then the Turnpike Authority administration building at exit 9, the headquarters of Troop D. Zayd Shakur was driving the two-door vehicle, Assata Shakur was seated in the right front seat, and Acoli was in the right rear seat.