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unusual facts about Frazer-Nash Consultancy Ltd



Alfonso Frazer

Known as "Peppermint," Frazer began his professional career in 1965 and won the World Boxing Association light welterweight title by defeating Nicolino Locche by decision in 1972.

Chain drive

The Frazer Nash chain drive system, (designed for the GN Cyclecar Company by Archibald Frazer-Nash and Henry Ronald Godfrey) was very effective, allowing extremely fast gear selections.

Dead Clean

A Greek window cleaner (Sachs) is mistaken for a Greek hitman (Richie) and employed by Tony Judd (Mark Chapman) to murder business partner Frazer Morton (David Weller).

Frazer Nash

There are several successor companies still (as of 2011) active in engineering consultancy (Frazer-Nash Consultancy), engineering (Frazer-Nash (Midhurst) Ltd. and electric & hybrid vehicle technology (Frazer-Nash Group of Companies, owned by Kamkorp, which also owns Bristol Cars).

From Atlantis to the Sphinx

Wilson argues that the essential weakness of James Frazer's The Golden Bough is that Frazer attributed the fundamental mythological systems to the beginnings of the arming cultures, specifically to fertility.

Joseph W. Frazer

Frazer then announced Graham-Paige would return to car manufacturing after the end of World War II with an entirely new model named the "Frazer".

Kings of Pastry

It was produced by Frazer Pennebaker (The War Room; Al Franken: God Spoke) and Flora Lazar—Lazar graduated from Chicago's French Pastry School in 2007.

Mario Butler

During that era, games were shown on Puerto Rico's national television almost daily (on weekends, twice a day) by WAPA-TV, helping Butler, Frazer, Mario Morales, Georgie Torres, Jerome Mincy and a number of other BSN players to become household names there.

My British Buddy

Frazer's unique rendition of a Robert Burns poem (with strategic updating and references to Hitler) and Jones' complicated explanation of where the term 'limeys' originated, but all seems to be going well, with a number of pleasing propaganda photos taken.

No Spring for Frazer

Frazer tells him that when he was young, he used to learn how to make coffins and dentistry on the Isle of Mingulay.

Paxton Automotive

This was factory fitted to a number of vehicles at the time, including the Kaiser Manhattan, Packard Panther, Studebaker Golden Hawk,

The Power-House

Harvie cites a comparable passage from the second volume of The Golden Bough, where Frazer speaks of "a solid layer of savagery beneath the surface of society," which, "unaffected by the superficial changes of religion and culture," is "a standing menace to civilisation. We seem to move on a thin crust which may at any time be rent by the subterranean forces slumbering beneath."

White woman of Gippsland

There were two women aboard, the wife of the Captain and a woman sailing to Sydney to join her fiancé, Mr Frazer.


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