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unusual facts about motor-paced cycling



104th Aero Squadron

Other flights went to the Mechanics School at RFC Salisbury, RFC Andover and the motor transport school at RFC Yatesbury.

2005 German Grand Prix

The 2005 German Grand Prix (formally the LXVII Großer Mobil 1 Preis von Deutschland) was a Formula One motor race, held on July 24, 2005 at the Hockenheimring in Hockenheim, Germany.

2012 Yas Marina Circuit V8 Supercar Event

The 2012 Etihad Airways Abu Dhabi (V8) Grand Prix was a motor race for the Australian sedan-based V8 Supercars racing cars.

2014 British Formula Ford season

The championship features a mix of professional motor racing teams and privately funded drivers, competing in Formula Ford cars that conform to the technical regulations for the championship.

Air Car

Compressed air car, a car that uses a motor powered by compressed air

Alfa Romeo Romeo

Motor Ibérica took over of FADISA in 1967, this company made Ebro trucks and these FADISA trucks were merged to this same division.

Baker Motor Vehicle

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

Baptist Seminary of Kentucky

Georgetown, located off I-75, is the home of the Toyota Motor Plant; Ward Hall built in 1853 and referred to as the finest example of Greek Revival architecture in the south; the Cardome Centre, former monastery building designed for the Sisters of the Visitation in 1898; and St Francis de Sales Mission, the oldest church in the Diocese of Covington built in 1794.

Bob Pratt

The initial attack on the inhabitants of Adowa by Benito Mussolini's invading army upon Emperor Haile Selassie, is no greater shock than that received by SMFC officials when they learned on Thursday afternoon, through the press, that Bob Pratt had been involved in a collision with a motor truck.

Brons

When Rudolf Diesel developed the diesel motor in the 1890s, Brons found it to be too complicated and invented a type of "spray cup" he called the "verstuiverbak" or "bakjesknapper" to simplify the fuel injection process.

David Dalgleish

Born in Epping, he was a licensed motor mechanic, welder and LPG fitter before entering politics, and owned a transport business.

Derek Cook

In addition to the formation of DC Cook Direct, Derek Cook had also formed Motor Solutions in 2002, an online discount dealer of new and used cars, which was later sold to Virgin Group (with Virgin taking a 53% stake, and keeping Cook on as the chief executive), and renamed as Virgin Cars, before its closure in January 2006, seven months after Cook's death.

Detroit-Oxford

The Detroit-Oxford was an automobile manufactured in Oxford, Michigan by the Detroit-Oxford Motor Car Company from 1905-06.

Eiffel Flats

The village began in 1905 as a residential township for the Cam and Motor gold mine, operated by Rio Tinto Group, now Rio Zim.

FV Motor Eberswalde

FV Motor Eberswalde is a German association football club from Eberswalde, Brandenberg northeast of Berlin.

GURPS Autoduel

In this setting (by tradition, fifty years ahead of the current time), characters are involved in autoduelling: combat in armed and armored motor vehicles such as cars, motorcycles, or semis.

Henry Engelhardt

Henry Allan Engelhardt (born 17 January 1958) is the founder and chief executive of Admiral Group, a British motor insurance company.

Honda Prelude

"It is," wrote Brock Yates for Motor Trend, "by any sane measurement, a splendid automobile. The machine, like all Hondas, embodies fabrication that is, in my opinion, surpassed only by the narrowest of margins by Mercedes-Benz. It is a relatively powerful little automobile by anybody's standards."Motor Trend measuring an early Prelude completing the quarter-mile in 18.8 seconds at 70 mph.

Hyperkinesia

Hyperkinesia is a state of excessive restlessness which is featured in a large variety of disorders that affect the ability to control motor movement, such as Huntington's disease.

Hyundai i40

Hyundai Motor supplied the i40 estate for use in the 2011 FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup.

Ian Fergusson

In his BBC biography, Fergusson cites his longstanding interest in Formula One motor-racing and has often indicated that he is a supporter of 2008 F1 World Champion & McLaren driver Lewis Hamilton.

Intra-industry trade

For a very simple example, it could be argued that although a BMW and a Ford are both motor cars, and although a Budweiser and a Heineken are both beers, they are really all different products.

Investor Network on Climate Risk

In 2007, more than 20 leading companies, including Alcoa, BP America, Caterpillar, Dow Chemical, DuPont, Ford Motor Co., Johnson & Johnson, and others, issued a formal call for national legislation calling for significant reductions in GHG emissions.

J. Frank Duryea

On November 28, 1895, Frank Duryea won the first motor-car race in the United States, a 54-mile loop along the lakeshore from Chicago to Evanston and back again.

Jiangling

Jiangling Tractors, a division of Jiangling Motor Company, produces tractors

Motor protein

Shin'ichi Ishiwata, a scientist who specializes in the study of the chemistry and mechanics of muscles and motor proteins

Motor variable

At the National University of La Plata in 1935, J.C. Vignaux, an expert in convergence of infinite series, contributed four articles on the motor variable to the university’s annual periodical.

Mount Sims

It was produced by Thomas Stern of Crime & the City Solution and features guest appearances by Jessie Evans (formerly of Subtonix, Autonervous, and The Vanishing), Toby Dammit (Swans, The Residents, and Iggy Pop), and Bryan Black (Motor).

Najjar

John Najjar, executive stylist at Ford Motor Company and creator of the Ford Mustang

Nigel Caple

After graduation he continued to be tutored by Miles at various locations including Ronda in Spain, Morley College in London and The Motor House in North Yorkshire.

Owen Bieber

In September 1983, Bieber negotiated an agreement in which the union was able to extend its collective bargaining contract over the joint GM-Toyota New United Motor Manufacturing, Inc. (NUMMI) automobile manufacturing plant in Fremont, California.

Pitcairn PA-2 Sesquiwing

The Sesquiwing featured a quick change motor mount to accommodate a Curtiss C-6 or Curtiss OX-5 engine, and wheel fairings for speed.

Premotor cortex

Graziano and colleagues suggested an alternative principle of organization for the primary motor cortex and the caudal part of the premotor cortex, all regions that project directly to the spinal cord and that were included in the Penfield and Woolsey definition of M1.

Richard Lindsey Batten

He fell off his motor bike, concussed himself (crash helmets were little used then), and lost his sense of taste and smell.

Robert Ireland

Robert Innes Ireland, British military officer, engineer, and motor racing driver

Rover P6

In 1993, the collection then moved to its new home, The British Motor Industry Heritage Trust site at Gaydon, now known as the Heritage Motor Centre.

South African Class NG6 4-4-0

Known users were, amongst others, Premier Portland Cement in Bulawayo, the Rhodesian Native Timber Concessions at Gwaai, the Cam and Motor Mine at Gatooma, the Selukwe Peak Light Railway of the Selukwe Chrome Mine, the Lupane Forest Estates, the Igusi Saw Mills and the Arcturus Mine east of Salisbury, all these in Rhodesia.

Stahl Brandenburg Rugby

The following year, in 1959, a rugby department was formed at the Thälmannwerft, a Shipbuilding company, as part of the BSG Motor Nord.

Stuart Devlin

In 1966 a Stuart Devlin fine silver sculpture was commissioned by Ford of Britain to celebrate the release of the new Mk IV Ford Zephyr & Zodiac range of motor vehicles.

Swift Motor Company

The Quinton Works with frontages on Quinton Road and Mile Lane in Cheylesmore, Coventry, originally built in 1890 for S & B Gorton for cycle manufacture, was acquired in 1905 by the Swift Motor Company, who made a motorcycle and a motor tricycle in 1898, and a conventional car by 1901 in their Cheylesmore Works in Little Park Street, but needed more factory space.

Symonston, Australian Capital Territory

Located in Symonston are the Alexander Maconochie Centre (gaol), Periodic Detention Centre and Symonston Temporary Remand Centre and three caravan parks: Canberra South Motor Park, Sundown Village and Narrabundah Longstay Caravan Park.

Thunderbolt siren

The blower, which is made up of a motor-driven Roots-type supercharger, supplies the large volume of air for the siren head.

Tim Schrick

From September 2006 until end of 2008, along with Sabine Schmitz and Carsten van Ryssen, he has hosted a motoring program on German television channel DMAX known as D Motor, similar to the BBC's Top Gear.

Totally integrated automation

Sub definition: automation is composed of the essentials of the drives (frequency converter + motor), a programmable logic control as well as a Panel to the visualization.

ÚVMV 1100 GT

It was exhibited at Plzeň Expo and the next year at the Geneva Motor Show.

Vale Special

The Vale Motor Company was set up in 1931 by Pownoll Pellew (later 9th Viscount Exmouth) as a 'gentleman's hobby' in a rented workshop behind the Warrington pub in Maida Vale.

We're Here with You

Collaborations included on the record include Z-Listers, Motor, Sharooz, DJ Hyper, Benjamin Vial, and Sam Vandal.

Wellingborough School

Wellingborough School RAF section is linked to No. 5 Air Experience Flight at RAF Wyton, where cadets are flown on Friday afternoons in the Grob Tutor training aircraft, and to 616 Volunteer Gliding Squadron, at RAF Henlow in Bedfordshire, where cadets go on Sundays to fly in the Grob Vigilant motor glider, and where Flt Lt Walker is a C Category instructor.

Xplorer Motorhomes

He began Xplorer Motor Homes in 1967, seeing a market for small, garageable motorhomes based on Dodge vans.

Yaroslavl Motor Plant

OJSC «Autodiesel» or Yaroslavl Motor Plant or YaMZ (ОАО «Автоди́зель» (Яросла́вский мото́рный заво́д), ЯМЗ) based in (Yaroslavl, Russia) is an open joint-stock company and subsidiary of GAZ Group that produces engines for many Russian, Ukrainian and Belorussian companies.


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