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  • Thumbnail for Dennis Specialist Vehicles
    Dennis Specialist Vehicles was an English manufacturer of commercial vehicles based in Guildford, building buses, fire engines, lorries (trucks) and municipal...
    48 KB (5,521 words) - 17:22, 28 October 2024
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    new company was set up to design and produce diesel lorries. George Faulkener, related to Dennis by marriage, became works manager and Ernest Sherratt...
    15 KB (1,640 words) - 12:04, 9 September 2024
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    built in 1918. CE 6065 Leyland military subsidy lorry, Chivers & Sons livery, built in 1919 BS 9028 Thornycroft A1 lorry, Shell livery, built in 1925....
    15 KB (1,383 words) - 20:34, 6 April 2024
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    over 10,000 Y-type lorries were manufactured – making AEC Britain's largest domestic provider of lorries for the nation's military. From then on, AEC...
    29 KB (3,630 words) - 06:34, 11 November 2024
  • other soldiers. Fighting for a seat on the lorries, they get separated. Astrid and Karl get aboard the last lorry. Left alone on the road, Thomas is seconded...
    15 KB (2,078 words) - 00:57, 10 August 2024
  • as trucks, and larger vehicles as lorries. The 1939 K-, M-, and O-series lorries were quickly redesigned for military use. This was largely a matter of...
    37 KB (4,580 words) - 11:29, 27 October 2024
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    List of weapons of the Rhodesian Bush War (category Lists of military equipment)
    Bedford RL Petrol lorry (nicknamed "Big Daddy"): used early in the War by the Rhodesian Army and the BSAP. Bedford MK Diesel lorry: used early in the...
    125 KB (14,091 words) - 20:09, 5 November 2024
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    Lawrence Moore Cosgrave (category Royal Military College of Canada alumni)
    fire by having the lorries nearest to the burning one removed, he minimised the effects of the second explosion when two more lorries blew up. He showed...
    19 KB (2,032 words) - 09:12, 5 November 2024
  • at the Fairey Aviation Company aircraft factory, later a long-distance lorry driver, and Dorothy (née Ablott). Dorothy left when he was seven years old...
    26 KB (1,663 words) - 21:12, 18 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Sentinel Waggon Works
    Shropshire that made steam-powered lorries (steam wagons), railway locomotives, and later, diesel engined lorries, buses and locomotives. Alley & MacLellan...
    34 KB (3,358 words) - 05:24, 7 November 2024
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    vans being run by a substantial enterprise. A new "large and powerful" lorry, E43, registration BM 787, took part in the Great Commercial Motor Trials...
    34 KB (3,913 words) - 22:27, 29 October 2024
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    French forces began their first stage of withdrawal when a convoy of lorries left Bamako for Ivory Coast, carrying equipment and vehicles no longer...
    88 KB (7,643 words) - 03:17, 10 November 2024
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    Wayback Machine; Peter Dennis, Jeffrey Grey, Ewan Morris, Robin Prior with Jean Bou, The Oxford Companion to Australian Military History (2008) p. 429...
    131 KB (14,469 words) - 16:29, 23 October 2024
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    capabilities in pursuit of total war, blurring the distinction between military and civilian resources. Tanks and aircraft played major roles, with the...
    249 KB (26,008 words) - 03:12, 11 November 2024
  • September 2011 Jim Jamieson Easylegs Automotive 80,000 N/A Supporting legs for lorry trailers Easylegs Automotive's pitch failed due to the dragons citing lack...
    450 KB (14,547 words) - 15:05, 23 August 2024
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    Fall of Singapore (category Military history of Singapore during World War II)
    ISBN 978-1-86508-634-7. Dennis, Peter; Grey, Jeffrey; Morris, Ewan; Prior, Robin; Bou, Jean (2008). The Oxford Companion to Australian Military History (2nd ed...
    94 KB (11,717 words) - 10:26, 28 October 2024
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    Motors was a Wolverhampton-based vehicle manufacturer that produced cars, lorries, buses and trolleybuses. The company was founded by Sydney S. Guy (1885–1971)...
    26 KB (3,338 words) - 03:01, 28 October 2024
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    Karrier Motors Limited. At this time the products had been: Karrier motor lorries vans and wagons and motor charabancs Fog signalling machines and detonators...
    24 KB (3,092 words) - 14:57, 28 April 2024
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    had started to replace diesel-driven ones, and pollution regulations for lorries had tightened. As of 2021, the pollutant that exceeds limits is ozone,...
    158 KB (13,802 words) - 07:52, 8 November 2024
  • IRA members hijacked a lorry as it left the PJ Carroll cigarette factory on the outskirts of Dundalk, County Louth. The lorry was packed with cigarettes...
    32 KB (4,161 words) - 12:07, 22 July 2024
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