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2 unusual facts about Beyer, Peacock and Company


Ferrocarril Central Andino

In its early days, the line relied mainly on steam locomotives imported from the United States, but in the twentieth century the most characteristic type were the "Andes" type oil-fired 2-8-0s from Beyer, Peacock and Company of Manchester.

South Australian Railways

Locomotives and rolling stock were bought from Britain and the USA, from builders such as Beyer, Peacock and Company, Dübs and Company, their successors, the North British Locomotive Company, and Baldwin Locomotive Works.


Absalon Pederssøn Beyer

In 1553, Beyer was appointed lecturer in theology at the Bergen Cathedral School.

Beyer Stadium

The Beyer Stadium, one mile from downtown in Rockford, Illinois, was the home of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League's Rockford Peaches from 1943 to 1954.

Charles Beyer

The Sharp locomotives of the 1840s, particularly the 2-2-2 passenger and 0-4-2 goods, were almost completely Beyer's creations, and while he was careful to ensure that his designs were stout and long lasting, he also contrived to give his designs a distinctive and beautiful external appearance which became a tradition of Sharp locomotives.

Colin Beyer

Georgina Beyer came out first to her stepfather, before telling her mother about her 1984 sex reassignment surgery.

Dallas Principles

The authors of the Dallas Principles are Juan Ahonen-Jover, Ken Ahonen-Jover, John Bare, Jarrett Barrios, Dana Beyer, Jeffrey H. Campagna, Mandy Carter, Michael Coe, Jimmy Creech, Allison Duncan, Michael Guest, Joanne Herman, Donald Hitchcock, Lane Hudson, Charles Merrill, Dixon Osburn, Lisa Polyak, Barbra Casbar Siperstein, Pam Spaulding, Andy Szekeres, Lisa Turner, Jon Winkleman, and Paul Yandura.

District Railway

When in 1871 the District Railway needed its own locomotives, they ordered twenty four condensing steam locomotives from Beyer Peacock similar to the A Class locomotives the Metropolitan Railway was using on the route.

Gisela Beyer

Gisela Beyer is the sister of Olympic gold medalist shot putter Udo Beyer and Olympic gold medalist in handball Hans-Georg Beyer.

H. Otley Beyer

Beyer was born in Edgewood, Iowa to a pioneer family of Bavarian origin and developed an interest in the Philippines when he visited the Philippine exhibit at the Louisiana Purchase Centennial Exhibition in St Louis, Missouri in 1904.

Jan Müller-Wieland

Jan Müller-Wieland studied at the Musikhochschule Lübeck, composition with Friedhelm Döhl, double bass with Willi Beyer and conducting with Günther Behrens.

Johann Samuel Beyer

Johann Samuel Beyer (Gotha 1669 - Karlsbad, 9 May 1744) was a German composer and writer of a manual on singing (1703).

Johann Wilhelm Beyer

Beyer was trained as a garden-engineer early on by his father Johann Nicholas Beyer, who was a gardener in the service of Charles Eugene, Duke of Württemberg.

Karen Beyer

Beyer has appeared in both film and television, including One Missed Call, Going to California, In the Heat of the Night, and many more.

Karen D. Beyer

Beyer lives in Lower Saucon Township, with her husband, a pilot with United Airlines and retired Air Force Lieutenant Colonel, and their three children.

Lee Beyer

In the 2010 elections, Beyer was re-elected to his former seat in the Oregon State Senate, to succeed retiring senator Bill Morrisette.

Louis Matheson

In 1951, after only a few years in Australia, he returned to the UK to accept the Beyer Chair in Engineering at the University of Manchester.

Marcel Beyer

From early on Beyer, strongly influenced by Friederike Mayröcker and the authors of the French nouveau roman, was a writer of lyric poetry and novels, always taking an idiosyncratic view of German history, in particular the Third Reich era.

Martin Lattke

Lattke received singing lessons from Gotthold Schwarz in Leipzig, completed studies in industrial engineering in 2003, and studied then singing at the University of Music and Theatre Leipzig with Hans-Joachim Beyer.

Megan Beyer

In 1996, Beyer co-chaired, with Lynda Johnson Robb, Every Child by Two, a project to immunize children in Virginia.

NCC Class B3

These had been built by Beyer, Peacock and Company in the 1890s to the design of the BNCR Locomotive Engineer Bowman Malcolm.

New York City blackout of 1977

Also, although much of New York City was still without power, Belmont Park (a racetrack on the border of Queens and Nassau County in Elmont) did stage their scheduled racing program that afternoon in front of a relatively sparse crowd, as many thought racing would be cancelled that day due to the blackout (this is famously described in Andrew Beyer's book My $50,000 Year at the Races).

Peter Beyer

Peter Beyer (born 9 May 1952) is a German Professor for Cell Biology at the Faculty of Biology of the University of Freiburg.

Peter Whitney

Beyer accidentally kills his wife in a fit of rage and runs into Laramie, Wyoming, to escape the wrath of her pursuing brother.

In 1960, in the episode "Surface of Truth" of another ABC/WB western series, Lawman, Whitney played Lucas Beyer, a crude white man who has lived for ten years with the Cheyenne Indians.

Popnoname

Popnoname is the artist name of Jens-Uwe Beyer (born 1978 in Fehmarn).

Prehistory of the Philippines

(Some areas with oceanic languages are not visible on this map.) The popular contemporary alternative to Beyer's model is Peter Bellwood’s Out-of-Taiwan (OOT) hypothesis, which is based largely on linguistics, hewing very close to Robert Blust’s model of the history of the Austronesian language family, and supplementing it with archeological data.

Queensland Beyer-Garratt class

Owing to the number of orders they had on hand, Beyer Peacock (BP) subcontracted Societe Franco Belge de Materiel du Chemins de fer, Raismes, France (SFB) to build the remaining twenty.

South Australian Railways Y class

The initial order for 51 units was placed with Beyer, Peacock and Company of Manchester in England, another 77 were manufactured by James Martin & Co.

Tallahassee Titans

Also starting with the Gulf Coast game, the Titans have had an official broadcast team, consisting of Play-by-Play Commentator Drew Goldfarb, Color Commentator and Analyst Brandon Beyer, the sell out, and Sideline Correspondent Courtney Jones.

Uwe Beyer

Beyer suffered a fatal heart attack while playing tennis in the Turkish beach resort of Belek, possibly as a delayed result of the use of anabolic steroids throughout his career, to which he freely admitted in a 1981 interview.

Werner Meyer-Eppler

In 1949, Meyer-Eppler published a book promoting the idea of producing music by purely electronic means (Meyer-Eppler 1949), and in 1951 joined the sound engineer/composer Robert Beyer and the composer/musicologist/journalist Herbert Eimert in a successful proposal to the Nordwestdeutscher Rundfunk (NWDR) for the establishment of an electronic-music studio in Cologne.

Wilhelm Beyer

Wilhelm Beyer (born 22 March 1885 in Hohenmölsen died 11 April 1945 in Schermcke) was a German politician and functionary of the Nazi Party (NSDAP).


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