Sunbeam

Sunbeam

Sunbeam may refer to:

* Sunlight
* Crepuscular rays, rays of sunlight that appear to radiate from a single point in the sky (such as a gap in clouds)

In business:
* Sunbeam Bread, a franchised brand of white bread
* Sunbeam Products, an American appliance/consumer products manufacturer founded in 1897
* Sunbeam Television, an American television station owner which owns WSVN in Miami, Florida, and WHDH and WLVI in Boston, Massachusetts
* Sunbeam Foods Group, an Australian dried fruits company established in 1926 in Mildura as Co-operative Dried Fruit Sales Pty Ltd

In transportation:
* Sunbeam Car Company, a British maker of cars originally allied with Sunbeam bicycles and motorcycles under the company of John Marston Ltd
* Chrysler Sunbeam, a 1977 hatchback automobile
* Sunbeam (locomotive), a member of the Great Western Railway Sun Class of locomotives
* Sunbeam (motorcycle), a brand of motorcycle made by John Marston Ltd. of Wolverhampton, UK
* BSA Sunbeam, a motor scooter
* Sunbeam 1000 hp, holder of the first land speed record of greater than 200 miles per hour
* Sunbeam Yachts, a brand of sailing vessel, made by Schöchl Yachtbau Mattsee, Austria

Places:
* Sunbeam, Colorado, at 40°33'3"N 108°11'43"W
* Sunbeam, Florida, at 30°12'21"N 81°34'44"W
* Sunbeam, Idaho, at 44°16'16"N 114°44'0"W
* Sunbeam, Illinois, at 41°7'38"N 90°44'6"W
* Sunbeam, Virginia, at 36°35'15"N 77°1'41"W
* Sunbeam, West Virginia, at 37°50'48"N 81°56'43"W

In fiction:
* Ponygon and Kafk Sunbeam, characters in "Zatch Bell!"

ee also

* Sunbeam snake, of the genus "Xenopeltis"


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