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4 unusual facts about TVR


Breckland Beira

According to Breckland Technologies director Mike Rawlings, ‘the Beira carries on from where Marcos and TVR left off’.

John Ravenscroft

John Ravenscroft (engineer), engineer and engine designer for British manufacturer TVR

PistonHeads

PistonHeads was founded in 1999 as a TVR website and was sold in January 2007 to the Haymarket Media Group by which point it encompassed all aspects of motoring.

Robert Turcescu

Press
(reporter), (1994)
Radio Total (Total Radio) (reporter),(1996–1998)
Europa FM (editor) (2000)
TVR Telematinal (Morning TV show)(presenter, 2001)
100%(host, 2003-present)
MagazineDilema (Dilemma)(contributor, 2003-present)
România în direct (Romania live)(media proprietor, 2000-present)


Belarus in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2011

The contest will be held in 23 September in Minsk and it will be broadcast live from TVR (Belarus's First Channel).

Ben Samuelson

Ben Wylie Samuelson (born 7 April 1972) was in charge of the PR and marketing for British sports car manufacturer TVR from 1993 until 2005, and is the brother of the British television actress Emma Samms.

Bere Gratis

The concert was broadcast on Romanian public TV network, TVR.

John Tipler

He has been writing books since 1990, with over 30 published on a variety of motor vehicles, including Morgan, TVR, Lotus, Caterham and Alfa Romeo sports cars, Land Rovers, Triumph and Harley-Davidson motorcycles, plus several on Lotus formula 1 cars, as well as biographies of racing drivers Graham Hill, Ronnie Peterson and Ayrton Senna.

Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2006

It was organised by the Romanian national broadcaster, Romanian Television (TVR), in co-operation with the European Broadcasting Union (EBU).

Lotus M90

In 1981, Oliver Winterbottom was brought back to Lotus, after a stint developing the Tasmin for TVR, to design a new car to complement the Excel and the Esprit and bring some profitability to the lineup.

Romanian Television

Due to the same "energy saving programme" between 1985 and 1989, the TVR schedule was severely limited to only about two hours per day, between 20:00 and 22:00, most of which were dedicated to the cult of personalities of Nicolae Ceauşescu and his wife Elena; with an exception on Saturdays, from 13:00 to 15:00 and 19:00 to 22:30 and Sundays (the same program as Saturdays, but with children's programs between 11:30 and 12:30).

Selecţia Naţională Eurovision 2007

Selecţia Naţională Eurovision 2007 was the national competition organized by Romanian Television (TVR), to select the country's entry to the Eurovision Song Contest 2007.

The Offords

The community is served by two garages (an MOT test and servicing centre and a TVR/Noble Automotive garage), a village store and two pubs (the Swan Inn and the Horseshoe Inn & Restaurant).

The Vinyl Records

In a land where Bollywood rules, all-girl four-piece The Vinyl Records (TVR) are making a whole lot of noise all their own, exciting the ears of India’s Rolling Stone, Cosmopolitan and Marie Claire magazine editors (who have featured TVR on their pages) in the process.

TVR Cerbera

According to thelastcerbera.com, the website that TVR created especially for the auction, TVR's owner and chairman, Nikolay Smolensky (spelled "Nikolai Smolenski" on thelastcerbera.com site), brought the design out of retirement for one more unit as an homage to the "beautiful but brutish bygone British sports car."

The result was dubbed the "Speed Eight" (official designation 'AJP8') after Al Melling, John Ravenscroft and Peter Wheeler, a 4.2 L V8 producing 360 horsepower (268 kW).

TVR News

TVR News was formerly known as TVR Info, a TV channel which stopped broadcasting following the economical recovery measures of the Public Television.

TVR S Series

A 1989 TVR S2 was restored and sold as part of the UK television series Wheeler Dealers, first shown on the Discovery Realtime channel on the 3rd November 2009.

Walnut Tree Viaduct

The BRC Llanbradach branch continued along the eastern side of the valley, spanning the RR and the TVR via the Penrhos Viaduct, and then the Penyrheol Viaduct.


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