DCHP-3

colonist (-type) sleeper

Hist.
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a railway coach having wooden seats and rough berths for sleeping, sometimes also having cooking facilities.

Quotations

1891
The special transport train consisting of six colonist sleepers, one pullman, a mess car and a baggage car . . . steamed into the station at 20:30 Sunday evening.
1966
We were paid . . . $2.25 a day, out of which we were docked 90 cents for board and bunk in an old wooden Colonist-type sleeper.