Editing Clerestory (section)

==In transportation==
[[Image:Passenger car GN 3261 20041010.jpg|thumb|[[Barney and Smith Car Company]] clerestory-roofed passenger cars at the [[Mid-Continent Railway Museum]]. As in these examples, later clerestory roofs ended in a bullnose.<span class="anchor" id="bullnose"></span>]]<!--Please leave. Text in ''Bullnose'' article links here.-->

[[File:Clerestory roof interior, Type B tram car no 42, Tramway Museum St Kilda, South Australia.jpg|thumb|Interior of the clerestory roof of a 1908-vintage tram at the [[Tramway Museum, St Kilda|Tramway Museum, St Kilda, South Australia]], showing how it provides improved light and ventilation]]

Clerestory roofs were incorporated into the designs of many [[Passenger car (rail)|railway passenger cars]] and [[tram]]s [[Commonwealth English]]) / streetcars ([[American English]] & [[Canadian English]]) from about 1860<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.trains.com/trn/railroads/history/civil-war-rails/ |title=Remembering Civil War rails | last=Hankey |first=John P. |date=21 January 2011 |website=[[Trains (magazine)|Trains]] |publisher=[[Kalmbach Media]] |access-date=20 January 2025}}{{spaces|2|en}}[[File:Lock-gray-alt-2.svg|9px|link=|alt=Free registration required|Free registration required]] <code>registration</code>: a free registration is required to access the source.</ref> to the 1930s.<ref>{{citation| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ESnBiR7vLPQC| title = World railways of the nineteenth century: a pictorial history in Victorian engravings|first =Jim |last= Harter| publisher= Johns Hopkins University Press| year= 2005|page=248| isbn= 9780801880896}}</ref><ref>{{citation| title= Railway carriages, 1839-1939| first=G.M.|last= Kichenside| publisher=Ian Allan| year= 1964| at= Clerestory Roofs, p.12| url =https://books.google.com/books?id=-nEEAAAAMAAJ}}</ref> They increased the daylight and ventilation available to passengers.

In the US, the railroad clerestory roof was also known as the "lantern roof".

The first [[Pullman (car or coach)|Pullman coaches]] in the UK had clerestory roofs. They were imported from the US and assembled at Derby, where Pullman set up an assembly plant in conjunction with the [[Midland Railway]], a predecessor of the [[London Midland and Scottish Railway]] (LMS). The first coach, a sleeping car named "Midland", was assembled and ready for trial-running in January 1874.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Radford | first1 = J B | title = The American Cars of the Midland Railway | location = London | publisher = Ian Allan | page = 15 etc. | year = 1984 | isbn = 0-7110-1387-X}}</ref>

The last clerestory-roofed trains on the [[London Underground]] were the [[London Underground Q Stock|'Q' stock]], which were withdrawn from operation in 1971.<ref>{{cite web|title=RW Carroll Collection|url=https://www.flickr.com/photos/robertcwp/7148066675/in/photostream/lightbox/|website=Flickr|date=6 May 2012 |access-date=22 July 2015}}</ref>

Clerestories were also used in early British [[double-decker bus]]es, giving better [[ventilation (architecture)|ventilation]] and headroom in the centre corridor, as well as better [[illumination (lighting)|illumination]].<ref>{{citation|url =https://books.google.com/books?id=9_U9AAAAIAAJ| title = The Golden Age of Buses| first =Charles F.| last = Klapper| publisher = Routledge| year= 1984| orig-year=1978| page=16| isbn = 9780710202321}}</ref>

The [[Volkswagen Type 2]] Kombi, or Transport, commonly called the Microbus, came in a deluxe version with clerestory windows. VW made the Samba from 1961 to 1967 in several versions, which had as many as 23 windows, and it is highly prized by collectors.

In the UK, the style is also known as "mollycroft roof", especially in [[Romani people|Romany]] caravans, such as [[Vardo (Romani wagon)|vardo]]s, and other caravans.
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