Runabouts can be powered by inboard engines, outboards, jet drives, or inboard-outboard (I/O) drives. Abeilles were available with different bodies ranging from 2-seater runabouts to Landaulettes, limousines and Double-Phaetons. Customers could choose from Studebaker sulkies, broughams, clarences, phaetons, runabouts, victorias, and tandems. The program controls a timed delay of forcefields running from the promenade to the Runabouts. Like R and S runabouts, the SR used a McCord pressure oiler. Runabouts offered an optional all glass rear hatch for the first time. Early runabouts had their engines under the body toward the middle of the chassis. The company was known for its runabouts, utilities, commuters, and tenders. Most runabouts had just a single row of seats, providing seating for two passengers. The runabouts assigned to DS9 are usually named after various rivers on Earth. It was founded in 1955, making wooden runabouts. In 1909, two Brush Runabouts participated in the Glidden Tour. The Changeling Bashir is on one of the runabouts, having incapacitated the crew. His designs became the model upon which virtually all subsequent runabouts were based. "Defiant" took over some of the defense and exploration roles previously filled by runabouts.