Definition of "motor car"

motor car

noun
plural motor cars
1. Alternative spelling of motorcar.
  Quotations
  Today the motor car is not taken seriously as a solution to the problems of mass transport, and the transport planners of south-east England - and the mayor of London himself, judging by his Transport Plan - think in terms of trains and underground trains in particular [...]
  2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, pages 273–274
2. (rail transport, US) Synonym of railcar.
  Quotations
  The 20 sets of B.W. [British Westinghouse] equipment, including motor bogies and traction motors, were refitted to 20 new motor cars, similar in design to the 1913 stock, again at the railway company's Neasden Works.
  1951 January, “The Inner Circle and its Rolling Stock”, in Railway Magazine, page 59
  A motor car is provided with two self-ventilated series-wound G.E.C. traction motors, each having a continuous rating of 80 h.p. at 575 V. 116 A. at a field strength of 66 per cent.
  1960 February, “The first of London's new Piccadilly Line trains is delivered”, in Trains Illustrated, page 94