Streamline Cars Ltd was the company responsible for making the Burney car designed by Dennis Burney. Sir Dennistoun Burney rose to fame as an airship...
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upright and recumbent bicycles. As part of the Streamline Moderne trend, the term was applied to passenger cars, trucks, and other types of light-, medium-...
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Systems Streamline Cars, the company responsible for making the Burney car Streamlines, streaklines, and pathlines, in fluid flows Streamliner, a vehicle...
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Streamlines, streaklines and pathlines are field lines in a fluid flow. They differ only when the flow changes with time, that is, when the flow is not...
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announced the rebuilt of Auto Union Wanderer Streamline Specials. The three cars were built by European car restorer Werner Zinke GmbH. As part of the celebration...
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Tatra 77 (category Streamliner cars)
Tatra 603 1956-1975 Tatra (car) Streamliner: Automobiles - for overview of early aerodynamic cars Early aerodynamic cars, chronologically Rumpler Tropfenwagen...
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The streamliner cars are a class of streamlined passenger railroad cars built from the 1930s through the 1960s for long distance passenger train services...
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Bendix SWC (category Streamline Moderne cars)
conventional springs. The styling was similar to other examples of automotive streamlining such as the contemporary DeSoto Airflow and Chrysler Airflow. Vincent...
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flying mile and flying kilometer record for piston-engined wheel-driven cars. Speed Demon is powered by a 299 cu in (4,900 cc) aluminum block 'Hellfire'...
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Streamline Moderne is an international style of Art Deco architecture and design that emerged in the 1930s. Inspired by aerodynamic design, it emphasized...
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Chrysler Airflow (category Streamline Moderne cars)
a full-size car produced by Chrysler from 1934 to 1937. The Airflow was the first full-size American production car to use streamlining as a basis for...
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The Pontiac Streamliner is a full-size car produced under the Pontiac brand by General Motors from 1942 until 1952. A mass-produced and popular vehicle...
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Blue Flame (redirect from Blue Flame (car))
"1970: Blue Flame driven by Gary Gabelich". ©Copyright 1999-2014 Unique Cars & Parts. Ratliff, Franklin. "Drag Racing Story of the Day - Early History...
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The White Lightning was the world's fastest electric car. On October 22, 1999, the car set a world land speed record for an electric-powered vehicle of...
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Saab 92 (category Streamliner cars)
production of airplanes; "All the cars were painted bottle green, a colour that became something of a trade mark for Saab cars. The underlying reason was that...
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Spirit of Rett (category Streamliner cars)
2018-01-11. "Spirit of Rett". Wapling, Greg (2012). "Spirit of Rett streamliner". Land Speed Racing History. Hot Rods Down Under. Archived from the original...
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interests led him to set up a company, Streamline Cars Ltd, to build technically advanced aerodynamic rear-engined cars from 1930 to 1934: this was taken up...
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downforce, particularly in racing cars. This has been the successor to the earlier dominant aerodynamic focus on streamlining. The international Formula One...
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ThrustSSC (redirect from Thrust SuperSonicCar)
in Coventry, England. As part of the Museum's redevelopment project, both cars were relocated by specialist haulier from their position in the Museum's...
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Lincoln-Zephyr (category Streamline Moderne cars)
The Lincoln-Zephyr is a line of luxury cars that was produced by the Lincoln division of Ford from 1936 until 1942. Bridging the gap between the Ford V8...
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JCB Dieselmax (category Streamliner cars)
JCB Dieselmax is a streamliner car designed for the purpose of breaking the land speed record for a diesel-engined vehicle. The car was built for JCB,...
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The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby is the title of Tom Wolfe's first collected book of essays, published in 1965. The book is named for...
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Toyota AA (category Streamline Moderne cars)
prototype passenger car built by the company that became Toyota. It was redesigned and put into production as Toyota's first production cars, the AA sedan and...
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Goldenrod is an American streamliner land speed racing car which held the wheel-driven land speed record from 1965 to 1991. It was owned by Bob "Butch"...
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Fiat 1500 (1935) (category Streamliner cars)
The Fiat 1500 was a six-cylinder car produced by the Fiat from 1935 to 1950. It was one of the first cars tested in a wind tunnel, following the Chrysler...
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International Metro Van (category Streamliner cars)
The International Metro Van, made by International Harvester, is a step van, also known as walk-in or multi-stop delivery truck. This vehicle type was...
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later. He moved on to motocross and Formula Atlantic cars in his teens, before graduating to sprint cars and stadium trucks later in life. He took control...
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Buckeye Bullet (category Streamliner cars)
experimental electric cars created by students from Ohio State University (a.k.a. the Buckeyes) as a joint project with Venturi. The cars were designed to...
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May 12, 2011) was an American car builder. He and his brother Bob designed and built the Goldenrod, a streamliner car which held the wheel-driven land...
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4.3 km). It originally used production-model cars, hence the name "stock car", but is now run using cars specifically built for racing. It originated...
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