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    The Lanchester Thirty-Eight was manufactured from 1910 to 1914 by the Lanchester Motor Company, located in Birmingham, England. It was designed by the...
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  • Lanchester, in 1899; and is credited with the design of the Lanchester Thirty-Eight. Edith Lanchester (1871–1966) was born in Hove. Edith Lanchester became...
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  • The Lanchester Motor Company Limited was a British car manufacturer in active trade between 1899 and 1955. Though the Lanchester Motor Company Limited...
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    Daimler from Lanchester, who were still building their overhead camshaft straight-eight when they were purchased in 1931, the Daimler Straight-Eight is not...
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  • triumph was the straight-eight engine that entered production in 1926 in the Lanchester Thirty, replacing the six-cylinder Lanchester 40. The driveshaft was...
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    (later DB17 and DB18) introduced in the early thirties. This particular product line as the Lanchester Fourteen and Daimler Conquest was to run through...
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    Monster and Colin Clive as Dr. Frankenstein. The sequel features Elsa Lanchester in the dual role of Mary Shelley and the bride. Colin Clive reprises his...
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    the last Daimler Straight-Eight, with the Thirty-six straight-eight engine. Daimler DEs, especially the DE 36 Straight-Eight, was sold to royalty and heads...
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  • 600. Hammond "went ugly early" and bought the first lot, a 1953 £1000 Lanchester LJ 200. May was set to buy a Bristol, which went over his budget in bidding...
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    actresses. Her godfather was actor Charles Laughton, who was married to Elsa Lanchester, one of the co-stars of Mary Poppins. Her father, Roy was a Wireless Operator...
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  • Jesse. 339 7 "The McGregor Affair" David Friedkin David Friedkin Elsa Lanchester, Andrew Duggan November 23, 1964 (1964-11-23) Edinburgh, Scotland, 1827...
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    boundaries have changed over the years, has successively been part of the Lanchester Poor Law Union (from 1837 onwards); Stanley Local Board (1892); Stanley...
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    rods were H-section Crankshaft ran in seven bearings and had an external Lanchester-type vibration damper at the front Two sleeve-operating eccentric-shafts...
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    modern filters for air, oil, and fuel, an improved thermostat, and a Lanchester vibration damper. In 1931, Studebaker introduced "Ovaloid" headlights...
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    resurgence of puppetry. Two of the Guild's founders, H. W. Whanslaw and Waldo Lanchester, both worked to promote and develop puppetry with publications of books...
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  • On 23 March 2023, the BBC announced they had halted production of the thirty-fourth series after Flintoff was injured in an accident during filming in...
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    involved in those conflicts, in which case, other historians consider the Thirty Years' War and Eighty Years' War as the first global conflict, pitting the...
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    Ultimately Knight patents were issued in at least eight countries and were actually built by about thirty firms. At first Knight tried making the entire...
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  • Thirty Years' War Siege of Vienna (1619) – Thirty Years' War Siege of Bad Kreuznach (1620) – Thirty Years' War Siege of Neuhäusel (1621) – Thirty Years'...
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    the ages of eighteen and thirty-two are drawn by lottery to serve in the Royal Bermuda Regiment for a period of thirty-eight months. The commitment is...
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    Internet Archive. Retrieved 20 October 2023. Wilson, Peter H. (2009). The Thirty Years War: Europe's tragedy. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Belknap Press of...
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    the 1918 British Mark V tank using an epicyclic steering gearbox. The Lanchester Motor Company in the United Kingdom also produced cars with manually-controlled...
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    25 years in fortifying it, and the cost of its defenses was reckoned at thirty million livres. Although the fortress's construction and layout was acknowledged...
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    on the thirty first day of March one thousand eight hundred and eighty-four, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-five, and one thousand eight hundred...
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  • were broadcast as specials during the 1957-58 television season. The other eight episodes were broadcast as part of the Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse from...
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  • 1930 Cadillac V-16 Flat engines First production flat-twin engine – 1900 Lanchester 8 hp Phaeton First flat-four engine – 1900 Benz 20 hp racing car First...
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    Olympian Cars: the great American luxury automobiles of the twenties & thirties (Second ed.). Beaver's Pond Press. ISBN 978-1-890676-02-5. Rhodes, David;...
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    improvements in warfare, this is not generally true. For instance, the Thirty Years' War (1618–1648) had about the same number of casualties per capita...
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    the Parish of Sutterton, in the County of Lincoln. Hampsteels Moor in Lanchester (Durham) Inclosure Act 1772 12 Geo. 3. c. 114 21 May 1772 An Act for dividing...
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    Fletchampstead.[citation needed] That year, Standard launched the Flying Eight. The Flying Eight had a new four-cylinder engine smaller than that in the Flying...
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