• automation systems for heavy-duty commercial vehicles. In 2007, the Vehicle Control Systems was spun off as WABCO Holdings Inc., an American provider of electronic...
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    "Wabco". In 1968 American Standard purchased Wabco. WABCO's direct successor companies include WABCO Vehicle Control Systems, a commercial vehicle air...
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  • 2007 with the spin off of the automotive parts business as WABCO Vehicle Control Systems and sale of the plumbing fixtures business as American Standard...
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    2017-05-24. WABCO. "WABCO Products and Systems | WABCO". Wabco-auto.com. Retrieved 2017-05-24. "Knorr-Bremse Group - Electronic Systems". Knorr-bremse...
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  • WABCO, or Westinghouse Air Brake Company is a former American manufacturing company. WABCO may also refer to: WABCO Vehicle Control Systems, a part of...
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    control components, air conditioning systems for rail vehicles, torsional vibration dampers, and transmission control systems for commercial vehicles...
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    distance, while still improving steering control. Since ABS was introduced in production vehicles, such systems have become increasingly sophisticated and...
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    degradation Railway air brake WABCO Vehicle Control Systems U.S. patent 88,929 U.S. patent 124,404 U.S. patent 124,405 "Basic system components". Saskatchewan...
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  • Westinghouse Rail Systems Ltd (formerly Westinghouse Signals Ltd) was a British supplier of railway signalling and control equipment to the rail industry...
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    Westinghouse Electronic Systems defense business to Northrop Grumman for $3 billion ($6 billion today), becoming Northrop Grumman Electronic Systems 1997 – sells...
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  • (1886–2000) Related companies Westinghouse Air Brake Westinghouse Brake and Signal Westinghouse Rail Systems WABCO Vehicle Control Systems Category Commons...
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  • used as both neutron-moderator and reactor coolant. Hafnium Control rods are used to control the operation of the reactor. Extracting the rods to a calculated...
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    Transit Expressway Revenue Line (category Proposed people mover systems)
    neighborhood. Driverless operation would be an option, and the system would be fully grade-separated. WABCO's proposal notwithstanding, PAT voted to adopt the Skybus...
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    (1886–2000) Related companies Westinghouse Air Brake Westinghouse Brake and Signal Westinghouse Rail Systems WABCO Vehicle Control Systems Category Commons...
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    (1886–2000) Related companies Westinghouse Air Brake Westinghouse Brake and Signal Westinghouse Rail Systems WABCO Vehicle Control Systems Category Commons...
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    of a social worker and a mechanical engineer who worked for WABCO Vehicle Control Systems. Her family lived in Nuremberg for several years during her...
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    Wabtec (category Vehicle manufacturing companies established in 1999)
    also as WABCO) became independent in 1990 via a management buy-out, and went public in 1995. (Another company, WABCO Vehicle Control Systems, also created...
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  • internationally, including nuclear fuel, service and maintenance, instrumentation, control and design of nuclear power plants. Westinghouse's world headquarters are...
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  • Kerr & Co. Desmond, Kevin (2019). Electric Trucks: A History of Delivery Vehicles, Semis, Forklifts and Others. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland....
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    Sound Leisure is the UK's leading manufacturer of juke boxes. WABCO Vehicle Control Systems UK (air brakes) is in Morley, and QHotels are on Bruntcliffe...
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  • (1886–2000) Related companies Westinghouse Air Brake Westinghouse Brake and Signal Westinghouse Rail Systems WABCO Vehicle Control Systems Category Commons...
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  • reactor operators take no action. The electrical system required for initiating the passive systems doesn't rely on external or diesel power and the valves...
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  • electronic control system and the need to replace it, development of the afterburner and the integration of the afterburner into the engine control system. The...
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    On longer highway trips, vehicles could be mostly unattended whilst in following mode. Vehicle to vehicle charging Some systems have failed in traffic,...
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    constructed MGM Springfield on the Connecticut River. Changchun Railway Vehicles, now CRRC, later purchased the property for a new $65 million railcar assembly...
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    Saxby and Farmer had developed a mechanical linked braking system, which connected vehicles to brake simultaneously. In 1920, Saxby, Farmer and Evans O'Donnell...
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    controlling system for electric motors U.S. patent 922,827, 1908, gearing U.S. patent 972,421, 1908, turbine U.S. patent 1,031,759, 1912, vehicle supporting...
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  • (1886–2000) Related companies Westinghouse Air Brake Westinghouse Brake and Signal Westinghouse Rail Systems WABCO Vehicle Control Systems Category Commons...
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    or a Westinghouse coupler. The WABCO N-Type coupler was first developed for the prototype Pittsburgh Skybus system with the initial model N-1 as applied...
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    pianist Erroll Davis - Education administrator and chancellor, University System of Georgia; businessman Anthony M. DeLuca - politician Jim Ellis - Swim...
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