Word: tonneau
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Dictator's motorcade consists always of three cars, generally enclosed 12-cylinder Hispano-Suizas. These cost in France, where they are made, as high as 250,000 francs ($7,700) for each chassis alone, rank among Europe's fastest cars. In Stalin's case, the tonneau windows of the three Hispanos are fitted on each side with blue glass, concealing the occupants and making it a guess in which car is the Dictator. There is no rear window and the construction suggests that a shot fired after one of these cars would simply bounce...
...Divine and indicating Hunt's status in the cult. This was a partly-completed "throne car," being built by a coach works. It was to cost from $25,000 to $40,000 and specifications called for a 265-m.p. Duesenberg motor on a 178-inch wheelbase, the tonneau to contain a raised throne surrounded by seats for eight people, with star-shaped windows on each side and a crescent one in the rear (see cut, p. 59). The top was designed, at the touch of a button, to swing back and down revealing the throne-sitter-presumably Father Divine...
...House wing, he shed his silk topper, his dark overcoat and revealed himself in his new uniform, a handsome ash-grey cutaway with trousers to match. The White House secretariat-Son James, Stephen Early, Marvin Mclntyre-racked their toppers in a row on the trunk behind the Presidential tonneau. and the official party entered the Capitol...
...stands of the State Fair Grounds heard Miss Agnes Samuelson, State Superintendent of Public Instruction, introduce Alf Landon. The candidate however was nowhere to be seen. Suddenly great spotlights sought out the west gate of the race track. Riding down the beam came Alf Landon in the tonneau of his car, waving to the crowd. In a moment he was on the platform. When a five-minute demonstration had subsided he began...
...dozen stores and between its few blocks of houses they sped amid shouts of "Hurrah" and "Come on, Alf!" (A few indelicate Democrats yipped, "Hurrah for Roosevelt.") Beyond the town the road was lined with more cheering people. Alf Landon wriggled up to perch on the back of the tonneau, wave his straw hat and shout back while Mrs. Scranton clutched his coattails for fear that she might lose her favorite candidate overboard...