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    A draisine (English: /dreɪˈziːn/) is a light auxiliary rail vehicle, driven by service personnel, equipped to transport crew and material necessary for...
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    the Laufmaschine ("running machine"), also later called the velocipede, draisine (English) or draisienne (French), also nicknamed the hobby horse or dandy...
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    Railcar (section Draisine)
    "railcar" may also be little more than a motorized railway handcar or draisine. Railcars are economic to run for light passenger loads because of their...
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    arranged consecutively, and thus the archetype of the bicycle, was the German draisine dating back to 1817. The term bicycle was coined in France in the 1860s...
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    track-maintenance car, crew car, jigger, trike, quad, trolley, inspection car, or draisine) is a small railcar formerly used around the world by track inspectors...
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    locomotives by some years. The first known kerosene rail vehicle was a draisine built by Gottlieb Daimler in 1887, but this was not technically a locomotive...
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    of the 223-K version was 128 km / h, and for the 224-K - 115 km / h. A draisine of the Warszawa was also produced and was used by the Polish State Railways...
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    France in February 1818 using the term vélocipède. It is also known as a Draisine (German: [dʁaɪˈziːnə] in German, a term used in English only for light...
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    car, rail push trolley, push-trolley, jigger, Kalamazoo, velocipede, or draisine) is a railroad car powered by its passengers, or by people pushing the...
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  • Diesel-hydraulic draisine DHD-200 class 915 Heavy motor draisine TMD-25 Heavy motor draisine TMD-22 Light motor draisine LMD-9 Motor draisine for maintenance...
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    Billard (section Draisines)
    stock. The business ceased trading in 1956 and later became Socofer. Draisines : These worked on different VFILs, and for the "Big Companies" which became...
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    Multiple Unit Dining car Dome car Double door boxcar Double-stack car Draisine Driving Van Trailer Driving Brake Standard Open Dynamometer car Electric...
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    vehicle Technical Gun truck Military railways Armoured train Military draisine MRAP Reconnaissance vehicle Self-propelled anti-aircraft weapon Self-propelled...
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    Tatra T18 (category Military draisines)
    The Tatra T18 was a Czechoslovakian draisine designed and manufactured by Tatra in the 1920s. (in Polish) Adam Jońca. Tatra T18. Opancerzona drezyna. „Technika...
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    Submergence Vehicle Diver Propulsion Vehicle Diving bell Diving chamber Dog sled Draisine Electric vehicle Golf cart Ground effect vehicle Handcar Hopper Hovercraft...
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    Adrian Shooter's draisine of the type 'Ford Model T' on the Beeches Light Railway...
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    mainly as a marshrutka in state-owned inter-city communication, and a draisine designed and built on the ZIM basis for the use on narrow-gauge railways...
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    may have become the inventor of the bicycle when he added pedals to a draisine to form the Michaudine velocipede, the forerunner of the modern bicycle...
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    Ströhen there is now a Draisine operation for tourists. Ströhen includes a well-developed tourist railway, which also operates Draisines on a former narrow-gauge...
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    Armoured trains were sometimes escorted by a kind of rail-tank called a draisine. One such example was the Italian 'Littorina' armoured trolley, which had...
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    residents of Nordstrandischmoor. Each household has its own wagon. These are draisines powered by internal combustion engine, some with a trailer. Initially...
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    companies other than Westfalia. There were even 30 Klv 20 rail-going draisines built for Deutsche Bundesbahn in 1955. In South Africa, it is known as...
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    in the Rail Wars! episodes 8 and 9, where the characters take it with a Draisine. Harada, Katsumasa (1981). "Technological independence and progress of...
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    German automotive industry, Gottlieb Daimler, developed a motor-driven draisine, which used paraffin (kerosene) as fuel. It was the first piece of rolling...
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    in both the United Kingdom and France, where it was sometimes called a draisine (German and English), draisienne (French), a vélocipède (French), a swiftwalker...
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    gun: dedicated to machine guns Military draisine: Armoured trains were sometimes escorted by a kind of a draisine called a 'rail tank'. Platform: unarmoured...
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    Drais Drawing from an 1896 newspaper of The London Hansom Cycle Wooden draisine (around 1820), the first two-wheeler and as such the archetype of the bicycle...
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    Wheeled single-track vehicles include: Dandy horses, velocipedes, or draisines, forerunners of bicycles Bicycles, a pedal-powered two-wheeler Motorcycles...
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    Library" (PDF). wienbibliothek.at. Frühauf, Tina (2005). "Schubert and the Draisine: An Odd Couple in the Archiv des Menschlichen Unsinns". Music in Art. 30...
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    M578 light recovery vehicle – armored recovery vehicle Wickums armored draisine: 15  M151 – 1⁄4 ton jeep.: 67  Dodge M37 – 3/4 ton truck: 10  M35 series...
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