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3 unusual facts about Motor vehicle


Beverly Drive-In Theatre

The main screen measured 105 feet by 75 feet (32 meters by 23 meters), and the theatre contained a paved parking area for 500 cars.

Crotal bell

Crotal bells, also known as rumble bells, were used on horse-drawn vehicles before motorised vehicles were common.

Motor vehicle

The 27 European Union (EU-27) member countries had a fleet of over 256 million in 2008, and passenger cars accounted for 87% of the union's fleet.


Economy of São Paulo

Heavy metallurgical plants located in nearby Taubaté, oil refineries and chemical plants in Cubatão, and plants manufacturing motor vehicles, transportation equipment, and farm machinery in Santo André, São Bernardo do Campo, São Caetano do Sul, and Diadema make large contributions to production.

Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard 108

Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard 108 (FMVSS 108) regulates all automotive lighting, signalling and reflective devices in the United States.

Heaphy Tin Man

Vandalism is not a recent threat; since its first installation in the early thirties, The Tin Man has survived many attempts at its demise, ranging from mild explosives to direct impacts with motor vehicles from a number of eras.

Vehicle registration plates of New Mexico

The U.S. state of New Mexico first required its residents to register their motor vehicles and display license plates in 1912.

Vehicle registration plates of Rhode Island

The U.S. state of Rhode Island first required its residents to register their motor vehicles and display license plates in 1904.


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Australia–South Africa relations

Australian exports to South Africa were A$2.53 billion (mainly medicaments, meat and civil engineering equipment), and Australian imports from South Africa were A$1.35 billion, notably passenger motor vehicles (mainly BMW 3 Series vehicles) worth A$663 million, as well as pig iron and motor vehicle parts.

Automotive industry in North Korea

Since 1950, Sungri Motor Plant in Tokchon has been North Korea's first and largest motor vehicle plant producing urban and off-road passenger cars; small, midi- and heavy cargo, construction and off-road trucks and buses under the names Sungri, Jaju and others.

The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) is not involved with the Organisation Internationale des Constructeurs d'Automobiles (OICA) or any other United Nations industrial committee, so information about its motor vehicle industry is limited.

Autonov 1

Its inventor, the late engineering professor Ayodele Awojobi, imagined the advantage of the invention in such a situation as when a motor vehicle drives forward into a cul-de-sac and needs to make a fast, backward retreat.

Baker Motor Vehicle

Baker Motor Vehicle Company was an American manufacturer of Brass Era electric automobiles in Cleveland, Ohio from 1899 to 1914.

Boxing Helena

After she is injured in a grievous hit-and-run motor vehicle accident in front of his home, he kidnaps and treats her in his house surreptitiously, amputating both of her legs.

Daimler Stahlradwagen

After seeing Panhard's Daimler-designed V-twin engine demonstrated at the Paris Exposition of 1889 and inquiring into the engine's weight and power, Armand Peugeot stated his interest in a lightweight motor vehicle powered by the engine.

Delaware Court of Common Pleas

In civil matters, Court of Common Pleas tries lawsuits in which the amount in controversy does not exceed $50,000 (small claims), petitions for name change, habitual offender hearings on the privilege of operating a motor vehicle, and administrative appeals from the Division of Motor Vehicles.

Driver's license in the United States

In 1899 Chicago and New York City were the first locales to require testing before being allowed to operate a motor vehicle.

Emergency medical services in Spain

In Spain, the law (motor vehicle code) only allows the police vehicles to use blue lights.

Ephraim Amu

After successfully reaching Frankadua by motor vehicle, he had to carry the organ on his head and walk the distance all night, arriving at Peki the following morning.

By the time Amu completed his training, motor vehicles were more common so he could travel from Abetifi to Osino and travel by train to Koforidua, then take a motor vehicle to Frankadua.

Fulton Hogan

After the motor vehicle gained increasing prominence in the 1920s, political and popular pressure grew to create a system of New Zealand State Highways.

Gracefield Branch

Following land reclamation in the 1950s & 1960s, an extensive network of sidings were built at Seaview to serve industrial interests, including the Ford Motor Vehicle Assembly Plant; oil terminals for BP, Caltex, Europa and Shell; Pacific Scrap; and the Ministry of Works.

Harley-Davidson Model W

In July 1919, the Model W became the first motor vehicle of any kind to climb Mount San Antonio, near Mount Baldy, California.

Hill-topping

Hill jumping - the act of accelerating a motor vehicle as it approaches the top of a hill, causing the vehicle to go airborne.

Hillington, Scotland

Under a plan managed by the Air Ministry, the Shadow factory plan was managed by industrialist Herbert Austin, with the aim to create nine new factories, and invest in enabling existing motor vehicle manufacturing plants to expand capacity and make the switch to aircraft production more easy.

Italian Week

Celebrations extended to a wider area, reaching the Granite Belt region with a motor vehicle rally from Brisbane to Stanthorpe and others food and wine, and music events (including a concert with Australian artists Jon English and Peter Cupples).

James Womack

James P. Womack, research director of the International Motor Vehicle Program

Jarbidge, Nevada

The community is usually and most easily accessed using a motor vehicle by way of Three Creek Road, which originates along U.S. Route 93 in Rogerson, Twin Falls County, Idaho; the final 18 miles of this route are unimproved, but usually open all year.

Mike Siegel

He helped former representative Linda Smith and initiative to the people "King" Tim Eyman to get motor vehicle license fees reduced to $30 a year from a previous fee set at 2.2% of the vehicles fair market value.

Old Prescott Road

During the late 1990s prior to amalgamation, a teacher at Greely Elementary School was killed in a motor-vehicle accident at the intersection of Old Prescott Road and Parkway Road.

Peugeot Type 2

The Peugeot Type 2 is the first petrol/gasoline powered motor vehicle produced between 1890 and 1891 by the French auto-maker Peugeot at their Valentigney plant.

Peugeot Type 21

The Peugeot Type 21 is an early motor vehicle produced between 1898 and 1901 by the French auto-maker Peugeot at their Audincourt plant.

Peugeot Type 24

The Peugeot Type 24 is an early motor vehicle produced between 1898 and 1901 by the French auto-maker Peugeot at their Audincourt plant.

Reaseheath College

The college offers courses in Adventure Sports, Agriculture, Agricultural Engineering, Animal Management, Business and Events Management, Construction, Countryside, Equine, Floristry, Food, Horticulture, Motor Vehicle, Public Services and Sports Studies.

Registration tax

Vehicle first registration fee – the tax payable in the United Kingdom to first register a motor vehicle.

Robert Flanagan

In this position, Flanagan would be charged with the management of the Port of Baltimore, the Baltimore Washington International Airport (BWI), the Motor Vehicle Administration, the various transportation entities, such as the MARC Train, the Baltimore Light Rail, the Baltimore Subway, and the Maryland bus system (MTA), and various tolls and bridges, such as the Fort McHenry Tunnel and the Chesapeake Bay Bridge.

Rubery Owen

After the war they expanded their engineering products to include ploughs for Ferguson Tractors, metal pressings, fasteners, motor vehicle components and structural steel components for the building industry.

Rule of the road

Traffic code (also motor vehicle code), the collection of local statutes, regulations, ordinances and rules which that govern public (and sometimes private) ways

The Benjamin Gate

The Benjamin Gate was a South African Christian rock band formed in 1998 following the motor vehicle accident and subsequent death of a mutual friend and fellow musician, Ben.

Trent Hentschel

The injury was compared with one suffered in a motor vehicle accident, as well as to that suffered by NBA player, Shaun Livingston (although Livingston's was much worse).

Tsuru, Yamanashi

:Disambiguation: For the Mexican motor vehicle brand, see Nissan Sentra

Vivian, Louisiana

H. Claude DeBeaux, Jr. (1932-2013), native of Marshall, Texas, Vivian and Shreveport resident, former member of the Caddo Parish School Board, established Claude DeBeaux Ford dealership in Vivian, director of Citizens Bank and Trust Company, vice president of Holiday in Dixie festival in Shreveport, member of the Louisiana Motor Vehicle Commission in the administration of Governor Dave Treen.

Williamson v. Mazda

, 562 U.S. (2011), was a decision by the Supreme Court of the United States, in which the Court unanimously held that Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard 208, promulgated by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, does not federally preempt state tort lawsuits against auto manufacturers from injuries caused by a defective lack of certain types of seat belts.

Willie Andrews

On February 5, 2008, two days after Super Bowl XLII, Andrews was arrested in Lowell, Massachusetts and charged with possession of marijuana with intent to distribute and operating an unregistered motor vehicle.