Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { ?s ?p "The Gibbs Hi-V, a New York City Subway car, was built between 1904 and 1905 for the IRT and its successors, the NYC Board of Transportation and the New York City Transit Authority. It was the first all steel subway car ordered for New York City.Because of the sliding doors which enclosed the motorman's vestibules from the rest of the car compartment, the cars were nicknamed Merry Widows. Early on, they were also known as Battleships, a reference to their second paint scheme where the siding was painted Battleship Grey. However, the nickname did not stick, and was later given to the Deck Roof Hi-V cars, which were painted the same color. Today, references to the \"Battleships\" are generally assumed to be in reference to the Deck Roof cars, as opposed to the Gibbs cars."@en }
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- Gibbs_(New_York_City_Subway_car) abstract "The Gibbs Hi-V, a New York City Subway car, was built between 1904 and 1905 for the IRT and its successors, the NYC Board of Transportation and the New York City Transit Authority. It was the first all steel subway car ordered for New York City.Because of the sliding doors which enclosed the motorman's vestibules from the rest of the car compartment, the cars were nicknamed Merry Widows. Early on, they were also known as Battleships, a reference to their second paint scheme where the siding was painted Battleship Grey. However, the nickname did not stick, and was later given to the Deck Roof Hi-V cars, which were painted the same color. Today, references to the \"Battleships\" are generally assumed to be in reference to the Deck Roof cars, as opposed to the Gibbs cars.".