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1986 in Northern Ireland

31 March - Tom King, Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, announces decision to ban the Apprentice Boys Easter Monday Parade, resulting in rioting in Portadown and other parts of the North, police homes attacked with petrol bombs, and 11 Catholic homes petrol-bombed in Lisburn.

Acid Survivors Foundation

2011 was also the year that ASF’s Executive Director Monira Rahman was honored with the prestigious World's Children's Prize in recognition for her struggle for the children who have been the victims of acid attacks or petrol attacks leading to permanent and disfiguring scars.

Alan Arnett McLeod

On 27 March 1918 over Albert, France, Second Lieutenant McLeod, with his observer Lt. Arthur Hammond, in an Armstrong Whitworth F.K.8 destroyed an enemy triplane and were immediately attacked by eight more, three of which they brought down, but the petrol tank of the bomber was hit.

Alibaba Akporobome

As a confirmed petrol head, he is working his way to owning a Garage like JAY LENO... starting with his Prowler, Merc SC-550

Ann Gloag

Gloag also has investments outside Stagecoach Group with her brother, including bus builder Alexander Dennis (through her Highland & Universal Investments company) and a chain of petrol stations and other property interests through a shareholding in Moncrieffe Holdings.

Barry Snowdon

In summer 2008, when carrying out his normal rounds, Barry saw a private highways truck containing high-pressure gas bottles and other highly flammable items on fire only yards away from the BP petrol station on Sherwood Street in Warsop.

Birches Bridge

Birches Bridge is home to Bilbrook railway station and Birches Bridge Shopping Centre, which features a HSBC branch, a Co-operative supermarket and an Esso petrol station amongst other shops and eateries.

Birstall, Leicestershire

North of the development, on the roundabout connecting the A46 and A6 is a new service area with a KFC, a Shell petrol station and an Etap Hotel.

Bleu pétrole

Bleu pétrole (Petrol blue) is the twelfth studio album by French rocker Alain Bashung, issued in March 2008 on Barclay Records.

C-class submarine

British C-class submarine, the last class of petrol engined submarines of the Royal Navy

Cammeray, New South Wales

Miller Street, the main thoroughfare of Cammeray, is lined with restaurants influenced by Chinese, Thai and Italian cuisine, as well as several cafes, the local post office, a petrol station and many other small businesses like dentists and jewellers.

Carss Park, New South Wales

A small shopping strip is located on the Carwar Avenue near the intersection with the Princes Highway, containing a bottleshop, chemist, hairdresser, newsagent, petrol station and supermarket.

Chiseldon

The village has a surgery, as well as two hotels, an Esso petrol station, two shops (one housing a post office) and various other businesses.

Chittaattukara

Ayurvedic Medical Shops, Allopathic Medical Shops, Rice Mills, Oil Mills, Petrol Pump, Stationery shops, Grocery shops, Vegetable Markets, Fish Markets, Meat Markets etc. are available here.

Clown Virus

The Goodies sell the remainder of the mixture to British Rail (who intend to serve the mixture as soup), and to service stations (which intend to use the mixture as petrol).

Crescent Link Retail Park

This will be home to a new Sainsburys along with Petrol Station, a Premier Inn hotel and six screen cinema, along with other facilities for the local population.

DUT Racing

Having used normal petrol for over 7 years, the team set itself a new challenge by convertingb the Yamaha WR450F engine to an Ethanol (E85) powered engine.

Faulconbridge, New South Wales

One known as Coomassie shops contains a petrol station, Chinese restaurant, tax accountant, hairdresser, vet, takeaway, pharmacy and liquor store while the second has a butchery, petrol station, hairdresser, physiotherapist, podiatrist, dance school, home builder and a large preschool.

Insurgency weapons and tactics

A Molotov cocktail is a breakable glass bottle containing a flammable substance such as gasoline/petrol or a napalm-like mixture, with some motor oil added, and usually a source of ignition such as a burning cloth wick held in place by the bottle's stopper.

Le Mans Prototype

Turbochargers and superchargers allowed for petrol engines with a maximum displacement of 2000 cc (122 ci) and for diesel engines with a maximum displacement of 3700 cc (225.8 ci), restrictor-limited to around 700 bhp.

LonWorks

Since then, ANSI/CEA-709.1 has been accepted as the basis for IEEE 1473-L (in-train controls), AAR electro-pneumatic braking systems for freight trains, IFSF (European petrol station control), SEMI (semiconductor equipment manufacturing), and in 2005 as EN 14908 (European building automation standard).

Maharishi Markandeshwar University, Mullana

The campus has two shopping centers with two Banks namely Oriental Bank of Commerce and State Bank of India Branch with ATM facilities also by standard charted besides Post office with Speed-Post service, Petrol Outlet by Indian Oil and eating shops by renowned brands such as, Café Coffee Day, Nescafé, Baskin-Robbins, Dosa plaza, Pizza Hub , pizziano , The Kathi Roll to provide basic amenities.

Minor Centre

Minor Centre includes a Tesco superstore, The Grove Green medical Centre, Mann Countrywide estate agents offices, Lloyds pharmacy, Johnsons Dry Cleaners, A Tesco Petrol Station, and the Newsrack News Agents, which includes the Grove Green Post Office.

Muhammad Hawadle Madar

His son Hassan Kul was murdered by a gang at a petrol station, after a trivial feud in Ladbrokes three days earlier.

Nazeing

After Total Petrol station was bought by Nazeing Parish Council, there have been plans for it to be made into a community hall.

Opel Kadett B

However, the early 1970s saw increasing awareness of the dangers to health arising from lead being added to road fuel, and the oil companies responded to the resulting political and regulatory pressures by reducing both the levels of lead in fuel and the availability at filling stations of higher octane petrol/gasoline.

Peugeot Type 5

Albert Lemaître, driving the 3 hp Peugeot (No.65), was the first petrol (gasoline) engined finisher.

Peugeot Type 7

Albert Lemaître's Type 7 Phaeton was the first petrol powered vehicle to finish, 3 minutes behind Jules-Albert, Comte de Dion on his steam powered tractor.

Priestman

William Dent Priestman, Quaker and combustion engine pioneer (1847–1936), inventor of the first British internal combustion engine to burn a fuel heavier than petrol (1885)

Red Hill filling station

The petrol filling station is an example of the futuristic "Pegsus" design created by Eliot Noyes for Mobil in the mid-1960s.

Safari Cinema

Subsequently, the developers applied to Croydon Council for permission to construct 47 additional apartments on the site of the derelict Total/Elf/Fina petrol station, also on London Road.

SEAT Sport

Two teams continued to campaign petrol SEATs in the championship during 2009 with Adam Jones and series returnee Dan Eaves competitive for the Cartridge World Clyde Valley team, while Gordon Shedden drove for Clyde Valley for a couple of events before it withdrew, but he returned to drive a Leon for the Club Seat outfit.

Selkent

Under an agreement reached with Thomas Tilling, the garage was allocated to the latter's use, along with Croydon and Lewisham, resulting in Tilling-type vehicles being the mainstay of the fleet until 1949, when the final petrol-engined STL-type double deckers were finally superseded.

Shannon Racing Cars

A petrol company sponsorship was promised but fell through, and SH1 received a 1L Cosworth MAE built by Holbay (later by EMC Motorsport), fit with two twin-choke diagonal throat sand-cast Weber carburetors for Formula 3 racing.

Shiptonthorpe

In Shiptonthorpe there are two pubs, (one currently closed) a petrol station, two Churches, a shop, and a Renault main dealers.

Sondhi Limthongkul

Gunmen firing M-16 and AK-47 rifles shot out his tires at a petrol station in Bangkok and sprayed over 100 bullets into Sondhi’s car, wounding Sondhi and seriously wounding his driver.

Stjepan Đureković

Stjepan Đureković (born 1926 in Bukovac, Syrmia Oblast, Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes — died 28 July 1983 in Wolfratshausen, West Germany) was a Croatian businessman, best known as the politically-appointed CEO of the state-owned INA petrol company.

Stuck Together with God's Glue

Stuck Together with God's Glue was Something Happens' second studio album with Petrol (Hello,Hello) making it number 40 in NME's singles of the year in 1990.

Supermarine Spitfire variants: specifications, performance and armament

In most circumstances this proved to be sufficient but during the air battles over Dunkirk and during the Battle of Britain it was found that whenever the Merlin was subjected to negative "g" forces, such as a quick "bunt" into a dive, the engine would briefly lose power through petrol starvation.

The Transport Museum, Wythall

The museum has three halls, presenting a significant collection of preserved buses and coaches, including Midland Red and Birmingham City Transport vehicles, a collection of battery electric vehicles such as milk floats, and a Tilling-Stevens petrol-electric bus.

Tickencote

On the northbound A1, sandwiched against the B1081 access road, is the Bloody Oaks Service Station with an OK Diner and a JET (previously a Texaco forecourt) petrol station.

Volkswagen Golf Mk6

The Mk6 is available in Chile with the 1.6 L Petrol engine (101 hp) both in five-speed manual and seven-speed DSG transmissions.

Wankum

However, these coupons are only redeemable at certain petrol station (Shell, BP and Aral).

WWCD

The first song played on the station was "Hello, Hello, Hello, Hello, Hello, (Petrol)" by the Dublin, Ireland band Something Happens.

Y11

LNER Class Y11, a class of petrol powered 0-4-0 locomotives built by Motor Rail & Tram Car Company Limited


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