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unusual facts about Cab-rank rule


Cab rank

Cab-rank rule, the obligation in English law of a barrister to accept any work in a field in which he professes himself competent, at a court at which he normally appears and at his usual rates


2000 United States Grand Prix

With ear plugs distributed by the team, a huge Manhattan crowd saw Irvine in an F1 test chassis and Herbert in a Yellow Checker Taxi cab "race" down Broadway.

785 series

The spare 2-car set, NE 105, stored out of use since 2002 was modified in 2010 and repainted with green cab ends for use in conjunction with 789 series sets on Super Hakuchō services from the start of the revised timetable on 4 December 2010.

7th Weather Squadron

Personnel work with Detachment 5 personnel from Illesheim to provide comprehensive support to all facets of 12 CAB operations.

A Movie Script Ending

The song begins with references to "the air on Railroad" and "the shopfronts on Holly," Railroad and Holly being two intersecting streets in downtown Bellingham, Washington, Death Cab for Cutie's hometown.

Asian Journal of Transfusion Science

The journal is indexed with Abstracts on Hygiene and Communicable Diseases, CAB Abstracts, Caspur, CINAHL, DOAJ, EBSCO, EMCARE, Expanded Academic ASAP, JournalSeek, Global Health, Google Scholar, Health & Wellness Research Center, Health Reference Center Academic, Hinari, Index Copernicus, OpenJGate, PubMed, SCOLOAR, SIIC databases, Tropical Diseases Bulletin, and Ulrich's Periodicals Directory.

BM-21 Grad

Its 40 tubes are mounted on a Shaanxi Automobile Works Yan'an SX2150 six-by-six truck, which unlike the original Russian version, has a cab protected by blast shields.

British Rail Class 460

The units featured controversial sloping cab-ends, which earned them the nickname "Darth Vaders" among rail enthusiasts.

Cab forward

The first modern mass-produced, U.S. automobile using the cab forward concept was the Pacer, introduced in 1975 by American Motors Corporation (AMC).

Carlos Rehermann

He won the Florencio Prize in 2002 for his play "A la guerra en taxi" ("To the front by cab", an Amedeo Modigliani stage biography).

Choose and Book

Choose and Book (CaB or C&B), is an E-Booking software application which has been introduced to the National Health Service (NHS) in England.

CIE 121 Class

The cab of No.133 is preserved at the Cavan & Leitrim Railway in Dromod, County Leitrim.

Class of '44

Hermie returns to college and is about to call for a cab at the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad train station when headlights are aimed directly at him, then a car horn is sounded.

Cold Showers

Mickael (Johan Libereau) is from a poor working class family - his father Gérard (Jean-Philippe Ecoffey) is a taxi cab driver who lost his license and then his job as a result of a police roadblock targeting drivers under the influence of alcohol.

Constructions Aéronautiques du Béarn

Constructions Aéronautiques du Béarn or CAB was a French aircraft manufacturer established by Max Laporte and Yves Gardan in Pau in 1948.

Crawler excavator

The Crawler Excavator components include a major crawler chassis, rotor support, the central swivel joints, turntables, the device weight, the panel, cab and air-conditioners.

Criminal Assets Bureau

The CAB is a member partner of Organised Crime Portfolio (OCP) (HOME/2011/ISEC/AG/FINEC/400000222) which is funded by EU Commission, DG Home Affairs and is carried out by an international consortium coordinated by TranscrimeUniversità Cattolica del Sacro Cuore (Milan, Italy).

Crown Coach Corporation

From 1951 to 1985, Crown Coach Corporation was also a manufacturer of fire apparatus under the Firecoach brand; it was a 1965 open cab Crown Firecoach that was used to portray Engine 51, during the first two seasons of the NBC/Universal television series Emergency!.

DBAG Class 088

These classes are however, generally, 'virtual' because whilst they are used in the computerised database for management purposes, the running numbers are usually only recorded in the cab of the actual vehicle.

Erie doctrine

In one case, for example, Black and White Taxicab Co. v. Brown and Yellow Taxicab Co. 276 U.S. 518 (1928), the Brown and Yellow Cab Company, a Kentucky corporation, sought to create a business association with the Louisville and Nashville Railroad, where Brown and Yellow would have a monopoly on soliciting passengers of the railroad, effectively eliminating the competition, the Black and White Cab Co.

Family of Medium Tactical Vehicles

The cab-over FMTV replaces the 2.5 ton and 5 ton M35 and M939 series of trucks and performs local and line haul, unit mobility, unit resupply, and other missions in combat, combat support and combat service support units.

Frenkie

The song was used in during a very rough cab driving scene featuring Edward Norton and Liv Tyler.

Godfrey Cambridge

Godfrey made an impressive cameo appearance in director Sidney Lumet's Bye Bye Braverman as a Yiddish speaking NYC cab driver involved in a car collision with the main protagonists, and another as a gay underworld figure in the 1975 Pam Grier vehicle Friday Foster.

H. V. Burlingham

Wolverhampton Corporation took one identical body on a Guy Arab IV whilst another but with half-cab and exposed radiator went to Samuel Morgan of Armthorpe Yorkshire.

Isuzu i-Series

It was built at the same plant in Shreveport, Louisiana, which produces the Chevrolet Colorado and GMC Canyon, which were in turn developed off the cab and chassis of the Thai-built Isuzu D-Max by GM, Isuzu, and GM do Brasil.

James Francis Helvetius Hobler

Chapter XVII - The Last Cab-Driver, and the First Omnibus Cad in Sketches by Boz (Monthly Chronicle, 1836)

James W. Nichol

His first novel, Midnight Cab, won the Arthur Ellis Award for Best First Novel, and was shortlisted for the CWA Gold Dagger.

Jason McGerr

He also drummed on Tegan and Sara albums, The Con and Sainthood, and on his Death Cab bandmate Chris Walla's solo album, Field Manual.

Journal of Cytology

It is indexed by Abstracts on Hygiene and Communicable Diseases, CAB Abstracts, Caspur, CINAHL, DOAJ, EBSCO, Expanded Academic ASAP, JournalSeek, Global Health, Google Scholar, Health & Wellness Research Center, Health Reference Center Academic, Hinari, Index Copernicus, Journal Citation Reports, OpenJGate, Science Citation Index Expanded, SCOLOAR, Scopus, SIIC databases, and Ulrich's Periodicals Directory.

Ken Shaw

At the 2008 Canadian Association of Broadcasters (CAB) Convention, Shaw was the recipient of the 2008 Gold Ribbon Award for Outstanding Community Service by an Individual Broadcaster.

Lancia 3 RO

In North Africa and Sicily with the top of the cab cut away and lower sideboards the Lancia 3 Ro became well suited for desert warfare serving as a self-propelled gun porting the Cannone da 90/53 as well as the 100/17 howitzer.

New Haven–Hartford–Springfield commuter rail line

When the commuter rail service starts operation, the current Shore Line East EMD GP40-2 locomotives and the rebuilt VRE coaches and cab cars will be used on the New Haven-Springfield line.

New South Wales 42 class locomotive

By April 1978 the Australian Federated Union of Enginemen placed a ban on the 42 class operating as lead engines due to cab conditions.

Night on Earth

After an evening spent drinking heavily, three workers, one of whom has just been fired from his job (Kari Väänänen, Sakari Kuosmanen, and Tomi Salmela), climb into a cab to return home.

Parks College Airline

Ozark Air Lines had recently lost its operating certificate from the CAB and purchased the Parks airline only days into its new service to gain its certificate and routes.

Pegaso Troner

Built at its Barajas plant, the Troner featured the all-new Cabtec cab developed jointly with DAF Trucks, Pegaso's own 12 litre straight six engine, and 16 speed ZF gearbox.

Peter Orner

He has also worked as human rights observer in Chiapas, Mexico, a cab driver in Iowa City, and for the sewer department in Highland Park, Illinois where once he worked side by side with Chicago-based journalist and author of College: The Best Five Years of Your Life, Alex Gordon.

Ramiro Suárez Corzo

In the mid 1970s he then moved to Cúcuta where he worked in construction, security guard, cab driver and neighborhood community leader.

Randy Parsons: American Luthier

Randy Parsons: American Luthier is a 2011 documentary short film about Randy Parsons, an American luthier whose client list includes Jack White, Jimmy Page, Sammy Hagar, Death Cab for Cutie, Peter Frampton, Joe Perry, and Modest Mouse.

RENFE Class 319

The initial locomotives (originally designated RENFE 1900) were single cab hood unit designs, built at General Motor's La Grange, Illinois factory, as an Iberian gauge variant of the EMD G16 locomotive type, using EMD 567 engines; the construction order was completed under license at the MACOSA factory in Spain, using the same components in a double cab design.

SNCF Class BB 15000

As thyristor technology advanced rapidly, SNCF decided to adopt the new technology for a new series of locomotives, later known as the "Nez Cassés (Broken Noses, due to their cab styling by Paul Arzens)" or "BB 4400kW".

Snogo Snow Plow

Manufactured in 1932 by the Klauer Engineering Company of Dubuque, Iowa, the plow was actually a snowblower and featured advanced features such as an enclosed cab, four wheel drive and roll-up windows.

South African Class 19E

In 2009 Transnet Freight Rail placed the first of 110 new Class 19E single cab dual voltage 3 kV DC and 25 kV AC electric locomotives with a Bo-Bo wheel arrangement in service on the Coalink line from Ermelo to Richards Bay.

Still Life with Guitar

Recorded on a Sony Walkman by Vatch during a cab ride in Palma, Majorca, Ayers sounds simultaneously detached, witty and poignant as he comments on the crowds around him.

Tatra 813

Another military feature was CTI central tyre inflation system controlled from the cab for each wheel independently and an ability to pressurize gearbox and differentials housing during water crossing.

Taxi1010

Its creator, Richard Ames Hart, drives a San Francisco Yellow Cab numbered 1010 in California.

Teddy Sampson

Her father, who worked for a New York cab company, was a great-great grandson of the American patriot Paul Revere.

The Princess and the Cabbie

One day she meets literary cab driver, Joe Holiday (Robert Desiderio), who references Shakespeare, T. S. Eliot, James Joyce, William Carlos Williams, Albert Einstein, Gustave Flaubert and Agatha Christie.

Vernon Tomlin

Vernon was prepared to leave Weatherfield, but returned after Liz made a Motown compilation tape which she gave to Lloyd Mullaney to play in his cab en route to the airport.

What Kate Does

The cab driver (David H. Lawrence XVII) bails and Kate lets Claire go, keeping all of Claire's possession in her haste.

Wild Bill Hagy

Hagy grew up in Sparrows Point, Maryland and drove an ambulance, an ice cream truck, and eventually a cab until he retired in 2004.


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