Regular cars were uncomfortable and dirty, and sleeping cars, which were then just beginning to appear, were unsatisfactory, with cramped beds and inadequate ventilation.
So would the fact that the ship, with smaller engines and larger hull, would give sailors more spacious living quarters, with six-bed "staterooms" rather than cramped, 40-bed bunk rooms.
After days or weeks at sea, smelling of sweat and shit, the first glimpse some get of Australia is of the cramped bunk beds below deck on the Customs vessel.
Caroline Parker expects to live with her husband, Dave, and daughter, Emma, in the cramped two-bed static caravan outside of her Carlisle home for at least the next five months.
A lot of sex happens in the dark, or in cramped single beds, or after like 13 shots and an oily kebab that causes your fingers to lose the purchase they are naturally meant to have.
In addition wards, including intensive care units (ICU), are cramped with insufficient bed-to-bed space and very high turn-around time of patients.
As dramatized, the cramped, stale, Murphy-bed world she grew up in is a particularly oppressive one.
And since folk in these parts don't take kindly to strangers, even asking directions would quickly give pause to even the most rabid G-8 fan!" A cramped bed-sitter on London's Brompton Road?
She felt that his — so small it fit only a twin bed — was cramped and dark.
