Sentence examples for streamlined car from inspiring English sources

Among the show's highlights are a restored example of the world's first mass-produced built-in kitchen, a rare Tatra T87 streamlined car, paintings by Fernand Léger and Piet Mondrian and, of course, chairs galore.

Mr. Gregorie, who was known as Bob, also designed what would become the 1949 Mercury, which was driven by James Dean in "Rebel Without a Cause," and the 1936 Lincoln Zephyr, which the Museum of Modern Art in New York called "the first successfully streamlined car in America".

"Strength and womanhood, effortless and beautiful," Ms. Philo said to sum up a collection that took her forward from her previous style, but only as a streamlined car purring ahead on the same route.

But Preston Tucker Jeff Bridgess) decides his streamlined "car of tomorrow" will have them, as well as shatterproof glass windows, a sponge-rubber crash panel, pop-out windshield, rear engine, disc brakes and fuel injection.

This automobile, the first streamlined car, could cross open fields like a jeep, accelerate to 120 miles (190 km) per hour, make a 180-degree turn in its own length, carry 12 passengers, and average 28 miles per gallon (12 km per litre) of gasoline.

With a heritage rooted in the aircraft company Svenska Aeroplan AB – the first Saab was the most streamlined car on the market when it went into production in 1949 – it is perhaps not surprising that the Swedish carmaker has long been associated with innovation.

So it was no wonder that motorbikes at artistic angles and steely, streamlined cars driven into display areas formed the backdrop for the Pitti Uomo exhibition last week.

And Harold Vanderbilt was "in charge of the railroad" when it commissioned the bullet-nosed engine and streamlined cars of the Century, still considered masterpieces of industrial design.

Other farsighted Geddes designs included those for prefab housing, streamlined cars (some of whose features the automobile industry adopted decades later) and a stadium for the Brooklyn Dodgers with a suspended roof that could slide open in good weather — an idea that was realized 20 years later in the Houston Astrodome.

Out of that heady atmosphere of cooperation and technical advance came streamlined cars, air conditioning, television, a housing boom, and the GI Bill sending blue-collar workers off to college in unprecedented numbers.

Mr. Down reminds us that at the same time streamline cars were going on the market, ocean liners and trains were being streamlined, the better to compete with the nascent airline industry.