He had not been in a civilian automobile since Richard Nixon had been president.
Experts anticipated that Detroit would learn advanced engineering methods from the aviation industry that would result in great improvements for postwar civilian automobiles.
The street itself had been cleared of civilian automobiles, and was now teeming with uniformed police officers, SAFE agents, and grim-looking people in suits.
Established as Winklhofer & Jaenicke in 1896, the company used the Wanderer brand name from 1911, making civilian automobiles until 1941 and military vehicles until 1945.
And the fantastically reckless driving that goes along with them leads to constant accidents-invariably with much smaller, more vulnerable, civilian automobiles.
The truck was sideswiped by a civilian automobile on U.S. Highway 65.
Vega remained in the Hawaiian Islands until 3 January 1942, when she got underway with a cargo of civilian automobiles and pineapples.
Even though the manufacturing of civilian automobiles was discontinued from 1942 to 1945 (so all production could be dedicated to the war effort).
You will tell them that three civilian automobiles will be passing through.
After only 16,600 of the 1941 models were made, and a few thousand 1942s, Detroit stopped building civilian automobiles to concentrate on defense production.