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  • ...</ref> a flying club initially based at Filton Aerodrome. In 1929, Bristol Corporation took up the club's proposal to develop farmland located at [[Whitchurch, Br ....<ref>Wakefield (1997), pp. 82–83.</ref> BOAC operated routes around the British Empire and to neutral nations, including the Bristol–Lisbon route which w
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  • ...are listed at Grade II, including Pembroke Lodge, the home of 19th-century British Prime Minister Lord John Russell and his grandson, the philosopher Bertrand ...only, or allow bicycle, pedestrian and other vehicle access. The gates for motor vehicle access are open only during daylight hours, and the speed limit is
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  • ...ast line of the municipal Manchester Corporation Tramways was displaced by motor buses. That company had managed most of the electrification of the trams, e ...n's rail transport network. A Rail Study Group, composed of officials from British Rail, Greater Manchester County Council and GMPTE formally endorsed the sch
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  • |carries = Motor vehicles, cyclists and pedestrians ...13%2f047 |work=Western Times |date=13 March 1913 |page=4 |place=Exeter|via=British Newspaper Archive |subscription=yes |accessdate=10 September 2015}}</ref> H
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  • ...dent Mary McAleese. In attendance was Admiral Sir Jock Slater RN, a former British First Sea Lord then serving as Chairman of the Executive Committee of the R ...ords Business Park, and the Airside campus (Business Park, Retail Park and Motor Park). The neighbourhoods of Seatown, Holywell and Drynam are also to the e
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  • ...ed Glasgow Subway Railway. It was so called when taken over by the Glasgow Corporation who renamed it the '''Glasgow Underground''' in 1936. Despite this rebrandi ...senger facts|archivedate=2008-05-11}}</ref> The Subway has been policed by British Transport Police since 2007.<ref>'Police For Glasgow Subway', ''The Times''
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  • ...ere.<ref name=technical /> The railway track was supplied by British Steel Corporation Track Products of Workington and laid on sleepers consisting of concrete bl ...ore different types of indication have to be used from those applicable to motor vehicles. Signal phases for the tramway are specifically modified to accoun
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  • ...an Act of Parliament in 1726 to improve the river up to Tinsley. Doncaster Corporation then obtained an Act in 1727 to authorise improvements below Doncaster.<ref ...ns, despite the fact that the system was antiquated and made little use of motor barges until after the First World War. The West Riding Council, who report
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  • ...lections/CollectionsInDepth/Water/HatfieldChase.aspx |title=Hatfield Chase Corporation, 1538-1973 |author=Water Resources - Manuscripts & Special Collections |pub ..., together with two branch drains. These were completed by 1768. Doncaster Corporation then divided up the Carr and enclosed it, and when this was completed in 17
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  • ...mpid=53002 |work=A History of the County of Lancaster: Volume 5 |publisher=British History Online |year=1911 |pages=76–80|accessdate=30 November 2010}}</ref ...mas who died in 1861. Irwell House and Drinkwater Park was sold to Salford Corporation and Prestwich Council.<ref name=vch/>
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  • ...d. The neighbouring station at [[Fowey]] had recently been equipped with a motor lifeboat and this could cover the coast around Mevagissey. The old boat hou ...co.uk/news/uk-england-cornwall-31072546 | publisher=[[British Broadcasting Corporation]] }}</ref>
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  • ...thouse authority and a pilotage authority, and also the building which the corporation has its headquarters. ...in the Parish of Deptford Strond in the County of Kent'. It is a private corporation governed under a Royal Charter and it has three core functions:
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  • ...manufacture in 1939. The basic aircraft design was modified to become the British Army A.O.P. (Air Observation Post), the model being named the Auster. Follo ...an, believed in the future of the business and organised/created the first British Leyland management buy-out (MBO) in 1982, indeed one of the very early UK M
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  • ...e lock after the release of 160,000 Rubber ducks at the start of the Great British Duck Race in September 2007]] The lock was built by the [[City of London]] Corporation in 1815 and is the second longest on the river at 268 ft 4 in. Beside the l
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  • |ownership=The Corporation of the<br />Hall of Arts and Sciences ...nctive buildings. It is the location of some of the most notable events in British culture, each year hosting more than 390 shows in the main auditorium, incl
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  • ...G Motor (owned by MG Rover's would-be partner Shanghai Automotive Industry Corporation) resumed full MG TF sports car production at the factory in August 2008 and ...orporates a gold-clad conference suite, a turquoise/blue clad sports hall, motor vehicle workshop and construction workshop and a main 6 storey gradual-slop
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  • ...e 19th century and home to both the Kalamazoo paper factory and the Austin motor company’s Longbridge factory in the 20th century, today Northfield is pre ...37). The excavation also revealed a Roman aqueduct that indicated a Romano-British building of some status had once stood on the site. In 1963 a Roman coin wa
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  • ...ed in Mount Pleasant, [[Bilston]]. The window displays of locally made six motor bikes from 1929–34. Next door is Alfred Preedy & Sons tobacconist shop,<r *Wolverhampton Corporation Tramways open topper No. 49 built in 1909. Returned to traffic in 2004 afte
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  • ...|first=H.M. |authorlink=Howard Colvin |title=A Biographical Dictionary of British Architects, 1600–1840 |year=1997 |origyear=1954 |edition=3rd |publisher=Y ...ghts from Langley. Postwar, the aerodrome was also used by Airwork Ltd and British South American Airways for aircraft maintenance work.
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  • In 1961, members of the Ripon Motor Boat Club formed the Ripon Canal Company Ltd, and gradually restored the ca ...8>{{harvnb |Cumberlidge |2009 |pp=253–254}}</ref> under the terms of the British Transport Commission Act of 1955.<ref name=hadfield450/>
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