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3 unusual facts about Speedwell


Austin-Healey Sebring Sprite

Speedwell developed a sleek, alloy-bodied Sprite coupe, the Speedwell GT, designed by aerodynamicist Frank Costin and built by Williams & Pritchard.

However, Donald Healey had managed to lure John Sprinzel away from Speedwell by inviting him to set up the Healey Speed Equipment Division and the promise of Healey works drives at both Sebring and Le Mans.

John Sprinzel had founded the highly successful tuning firm Speedwell, where he was joined by future Formula 1 World Champion Graham Hill.


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Beinn a' Ghlò

It is a region of European dry heaths and there are many species of alpine and marsh plants on the mountain such as the rare yellow oxytropis (Oxytropis campestris), mountain avens (Dryas octopetala), rock speedwell (Veronica fruticans), rock sedge (Carex rupestris) and green spleenwort (Asplenium viride).

Discovery Center at Murfree Spring

The Discovery Center marsh contains the state's largest population of sessile water-speedwell.

Frank Key

In December 2007 Key and the performance artist Germander Speedwell performed the whole of Jubilate Agno.

Perseverance IV

The barge Reliance is permanently damaged and in a drydock at Dapdune Wharf, whereas Speedwell is in poor condition at the National Waterways Museum in Ellesmere Port.

Rudy Wiebe

Wiebe was born at Speedwell, near Fairholme, Saskatchewan in what would later become his family’s chicken barn.

V. arvensis

Veronica arvensis, the corn speedwell, common speedwell, speedwell, rock Speedwell, wall Speedwell, a medicinal plant species and a noxious weed

V. nivea

Veronica nivea, the milfoil speedwell or snow speedwell, a flowering plant species

Veronica agrestis

Veronica agrestis or green field-speedwell is a plant belonging to the family Plantaginaceae.

Veronica aphylla

Veronica aphylla, common name leafless stemmed speedwell, is a plant belonging to the family Plantaginaceae.

Veronica beccabunga

Veronica beccabunga (brooklime, European speedwell) is a succulent herb belonging to the family Plantaginaceae.

Westringia cremnophila

Associated plant species include Shrubby Platysace (Platysace lanceolata), Violet Daisy-bush (Olearia iodochroa), Digger's Speedwell (Veronica perfoliata), Common Fringe-myrtle (Calytrix tetragona) and Tall Baeckea (Sannantha pluriflora).


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