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William Beardmore and Company

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William Beardmore and Company was a Scottish engineering and shipbuilding conglomerate based in Glasgow and the surrounding Clydeside area. [1]

156 relations: Aircraft carrier, Aircraft engine, Airship, Albion Motors, Anniesland, Archives of the University of Glasgow, Arthur MacManus, Articulated car, Austin FX3, Austro-Daimler, Babcock & Wilcox, Bank of England, Beardmore Cyclone, Beardmore Glacier, Beardmore Inflexible, Beardmore Precision Motorcycles, Beardmore Tornado, Beardmore W.B.1, Beardmore W.B.1a, Beardmore W.B.II, Beardmore W.B.III, Beardmore W.B.IV, Beardmore W.B.V, Beardmore W.B.VI, Beardmore W.B.XXVI, Beardmore Wee Bee, BL 15 inch Mk I naval gun, BL 9.2 inch gun Mk IX–X, Bombay, Baroda and Central India Railway, British Motor Corporation, British Tanker Company, Brooklands, Cable layer, Canadian National Railway, Car, Casting (metalworking), Clydebank, Coatbridge, Commer, Conglomerate (company), Copenhagen, Crane (machine), Cyclecar, Cylinder head, Dalmuir, David Kirkwood, Debenture, Deutsche Flugzeug-Werke, Diesel engine, Dreadnought, ..., East Indian Railway Company, Eastern Bengal Railway, Engineering, Firth Brown Steels, Fixed-wing aircraft, Flathead engine, Flight deck, Flight International, Flying boat, Ford Consul, Ford Zephyr, Forging, General Post Office, GER Class L77, GER Class S69, Glasgow, Golden Jubilee National Hospital, Govan, Great Eastern Railway, Greater Glasgow, Handley Page V/1500, Harland and Wolff, Harry Ricardo, Hendon, Ian MacGregor, Inchinnan, Indian locomotive class XC, Indian locomotive class XE, InfoTrac, Interwar period, Iron and Steel Corporation of Great Britain, Ironclad warship, Leyland Motors, Lithgows, LMS Fowler Class 3F, LNWR Prince of Wales Class, Locomotive, London and North Eastern Railway, London and North Western Railway, London, Midland and Scottish Railway, Madras and Southern Mahratta Railway, Mallet locomotive, Metro Cammell Weymann, Metropolitan Police Service, Motorcycle, Myanmar Railways, National Shipbuilders Securities, Naval artillery, Naval ship, Nieuport 12, North Western Railway zone, Oil tanker, Olympia, London, Overhead camshaft, Paisley, Renfrewshire, Parkhead, Perkins Engines, Private company limited by shares, R101, R23X-class airship, R31-class airship, R33-class airship, R36 (airship), Railcar, Renfrew, Renfrewshire, Robert Napier (engineer), Robert Napier and Sons, ROF Dalmuir, Rohrbach Metall-Flugzeugbau, Rohrbach Ro IV, Royal Air Force, Royal Aircraft Factory B.E.2, Royal Naval Air Service, Royal Navy, Scotland, Sentinel Waggon Works, Shelsley Walsh Speed Hill Climb, Shipbuilding, Shipyard, Sir James Lithgow, 1st Baronet, Sister ship, Socialism, Sopwith Camel, Sopwith Pup, Steam locomotive, Stressed skin, Strike action, The Forge Shopping Centre, Timeline of hydrogen technologies, Trade union, Trimotor, Vickers Limited, Washwood Heath, Wight Seaplane, William Beardmore, 1st Baron Invernairn, World War I, World War II, 0-6-0, 0-6-2, 0-6-6-0, 2-8-0, 2-8-2, 23-class airship, 4-6-0, 4-6-2. Expand index (106 more) »

Aircraft carrier

An aircraft carrier is a warship that serves as a seagoing airbase, equipped with a full-length flight deck and facilities for carrying, arming, deploying, and recovering aircraft.

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Aircraft engine

An aircraft engine is the component of the propulsion system for an aircraft that generates mechanical power.

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Airship

An airship or dirigible balloon is a type of aerostat or lighter-than-air aircraft that can navigate through the air under its own power.

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Albion Motors

Albion Automotive of Scotstoun, Glasgow is a former Scottish automobile and commercial vehicle manufacturer.

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Anniesland

Anniesland (Fearann Anna) is a district in the West End of the Scottish city Glasgow.

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Archives of the University of Glasgow

The Archives of the University of Glasgow (GUAS) maintain the historical records of the University of Glasgow back to its foundation in 1451.

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Arthur MacManus

Arthur MacManus (1889–1927) was a Scottish trade unionist and communist politician.

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Articulated car

Articulated cars are rail vehicles which consist of a number of cars which are semi-permanently attached to each other and share common Jacobs bogies or axles and/or have car elements without axles suspended by the neighbouring car elements.

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Austin FX3

The Austin FX3 is a taxicab that was sold in the United Kingdom by Austin from 1948 to 1958.

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Austro-Daimler

Austro-Daimler was an Austrian automaker company, from 1899 until 1934.

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Babcock & Wilcox

Babcock & Wilcox Enterprises, originally Babcock, Wilcox & Company and then The Babcock & Wilcox Company, is an American power generation company headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina.

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Bank of England

The Bank of England, formally the Governor and Company of the Bank of England, is the central bank of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the model on which most modern central banks have been based.

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Beardmore Cyclone

The Beardmore Cyclone was an aero engine produced by William Beardmore & Co with the aim of producing an engine generating a high power output at low revolutions by designing an engine of large displacement.

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Beardmore Glacier

The Beardmore Glacier in Antarctica is one of the largest valley glaciers in the world, being long and having a width of.

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Beardmore Inflexible

The Beardmore Inflexible, also known as the Rohrbach Ro VI, was a three-engined all-metal prototype bomber aircraft built by William Beardmore and Company at Dalmuir, Scotland.

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Beardmore Precision Motorcycles

Beardmore Precision Motorcycles was a British motorcycle manufacturer.

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Beardmore Tornado

The Beardmore Tornado was an eight-cylinder inline aircraft Diesel engine built in 1927 by William Beardmore and Company of Glasgow, Scotland, and used in the British R101 airship when petrol engines were thought unsafe in the tropics.

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Beardmore W.B.1

The Beardmore W.B.1 was a British single-engine bomber biplane of World War I developed by Beardmore.

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Beardmore W.B.1a

The Beardmore W.B.1a was a British two-seater long-distance bomber biplane of World War I developed by Beardmore.

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Beardmore W.B.II

The Beardmore W.B.II was a British monoplane fighter prototype of the 1910s.

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Beardmore W.B.III

The Beardmore WB.III was a British carrier-based fighter biplane of World War I. It was a development of the Sopwith Pup that Beardmore was then building under licence, but was specially adapted for shipboard use.

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Beardmore W.B.IV

The Beardmore W.B.IV was a British single-engine biplane ship-based fighter of World War I developed by Beardmore.

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Beardmore W.B.V

The Beardmore W.B.V was a prototype British single-engine shipborne biplane fighter of World War I developed by Beardmore.

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Beardmore W.B.VI

The Beardmore W.B.VI was a British single-engine folding torpedo bomber biplane of World War I developed by Beardmore.

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Beardmore W.B.XXVI

The Beardmore W.B.XXVI (W.B.26) was a prototype British two-seat fighter of the 1920s.

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Beardmore Wee Bee

The Beardmore Wee Bee was a single-engined monoplane built only once and specifically for the Lympne two-seat light aircraft trials held in the United Kingdom in 1924.

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BL 15 inch Mk I naval gun

The BL 15 inch Mark I succeeded the BL 13.5 inch /45 naval gun.

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BL 9.2 inch gun Mk IX–X

The BL 9.2 inch guns Mk IX and Mk XMk IX.

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Bombay, Baroda and Central India Railway

The Bombay, Baroda and Central India Railway (BB&CI) was a company incorporated in 1855 to undertake the task of constructing a railway line between Bombay and Vadodara in India.

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British Motor Corporation

The British Motor Corporation Limited (BMC) was a UK-based vehicle manufacturer, formed in early 1952 to give effect to an agreed merger of the Morris and Austin businesses.

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British Tanker Company

British Tanker Company Limited was the maritime transport arm of the Anglo-Persian Oil Company, the forerunner of BP.

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Brooklands

Brooklands was a motor racing circuit and aerodrome built near Weybridge in Surrey, England, United Kingdom.

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Cable layer

A cable layer or cable ship is a deep-sea vessel designed and used to lay underwater cables for telecommunications, electric power transmission, or other purposes.

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Canadian National Railway

The Canadian National Railway Company (Compagnie des chemins de fer nationaux du Canada) is a Canadian Class I freight railway headquartered in Montreal, Quebec that serves Canada and the Midwestern and Southern United States.

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Car

A car (or automobile) is a wheeled motor vehicle used for transportation.

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Casting (metalworking)

In metalworking and jewellery making, casting is a process in which a liquid metal is somehow delivered into a mold (it is usually delivered by a crucible) that contains a hollow shape (i.e., a 3-dimensional negative image) of the intended shape.

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Clydebank

Clydebank is a town in West Dunbartonshire, Scotland.

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Coatbridge

Coatbridge (Cotbrig or Coatbrig, Drochaid a' Chòta) is a town in North Lanarkshire, Scotland, about east of Glasgow city centre, set in the central Lowlands.

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Commer

Commer was a British manufacturer of commercial vehicles from 1905 until 1979.

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Conglomerate (company)

A conglomerate is the combination of two or more corporations operating in entirely different industries under one corporate group, usually involving a parent company and many subsidiaries.

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Copenhagen

Copenhagen (København; Hafnia) is the capital and most populous city of Denmark.

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Crane (machine)

A crane is a type of machine, generally equipped with a hoist rope, wire ropes or chains, and sheaves, that can be used both to lift and lower materials and to move them horizontally.

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Cyclecar

A cyclecar was a type of small, lightweight and inexpensive car manufactured mainly between 1910 and the late 1920s.

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Cylinder head

In an internal combustion engine, the cylinder head (often informally abbreviated to just head) sits above the cylinders on top of the cylinder block.

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Dalmuir

Dalmuir (Dail Mhoire) is an area on the western side of Clydebank, in West Dunbartonshire, Scotland.

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David Kirkwood

David Kirkwood, 1st Baron Kirkwood, PC (8 July 1872 – 16 April 1955) was a British politician, trade unionist and socialist activist from the East End of Glasgow, Scotland, viewed as a leading figure of the Red Clydeside era.

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Debenture

In corporate finance, a debenture is a medium to long-term debt instrument used by large companies to borrow money, at a fixed rate of interest.

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Deutsche Flugzeug-Werke

Deutsche Flugzeug-Werke, usually known as DFW was a German aircraft manufacturer of the early twentieth century.

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Diesel engine

The diesel engine (also known as a compression-ignition or CI engine), named after Rudolf Diesel, is an internal combustion engine in which ignition of the fuel which is injected into the combustion chamber is caused by the elevated temperature of the air in the cylinder due to mechanical compression (adiabatic compression).

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Dreadnought

The dreadnought was the predominant type of battleship in the early 20th century.

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East Indian Railway Company

The East Indian Railway Company, also known as the East Indian Railway (EIR), introduced railways to eastern and northern India, while the Companies such as the Great Indian Peninsular Railway, South Indian Railway, Central India Railway and the North-Western Railway operated in other parts of India.

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Eastern Bengal Railway

The Eastern Bengal Railway (full name Eastern Bengal Railway Company, shortened EBR) was one of the pioneering railway companies that operated from 1857 to 1942, in Bengal and Assam provinces of British India.

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Engineering

Engineering is the creative application of science, mathematical methods, and empirical evidence to the innovation, design, construction, operation and maintenance of structures, machines, materials, devices, systems, processes, and organizations.

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Firth Brown Steels

Firth Brown Steels was initially formed in 1902, when Sheffield steelmakers John Brown & Company exchanged shares and came to a working agreement with neighbouring company Thomas Firth & Sons.

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Fixed-wing aircraft

A fixed-wing aircraft is an aircraft, such as an airplane or aeroplane (note the two different spellings), which is capable of flight using wings that generate lift caused by the vehicle's forward airspeed and the shape of the wings.

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Flathead engine

A flathead engine, otherwise sidevalve engine,American Rodder, 6/94, pp.45 & 93.

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Flight deck

The flight deck of an aircraft carrier is the surface from which its aircraft take off and land, essentially a miniature airfield at sea.

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Flight International

Flight International (or simply Flight) is a weekly magazine focused on aerospace, published in the United Kingdom.

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Flying boat

A flying boat is a fixed-winged seaplane with a hull, allowing it to land on water, that usually has no type of landing gear to allow operation on land.

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Ford Consul

The Ford Consul is a car that was manufactured by Ford UK from 1951 to 1962.

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Ford Zephyr

The Ford Zephyr is a car that was manufactured by Ford of Britain from 1950 to 1972.

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Forging

Forging is a manufacturing process involving the shaping of metal using localized compressive forces.

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General Post Office

The General Post Office (GPO) was officially established in England in 1660 by Charles II and it eventually grew to combine the functions of state postal system and telecommunications carrier.

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GER Class L77

The GER Class L77, LNER Class N7, is a class of 0-6-2T steam locomotives.

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GER Class S69

The Great Eastern Railway (GER) Class S69, also known as 1500 Class, and later classified B12 by the London and North Eastern Railway (LNER) is a class of 4-6-0 steam locomotive designed to haul express passenger trains from London Liverpool Street station along the Great Eastern Main Line.

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Glasgow

Glasgow (Glesga; Glaschu) is the largest city in Scotland, and third most populous in the United Kingdom.

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Golden Jubilee National Hospital

The Golden Jubilee National Hospital is a hospital in Clydebank, near Glasgow, Scotland.

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Govan

Govan (Scottish Gaelic: Baile a' Ghobhainn) is a district, parish, and former burgh now part of south-west City of Glasgow, Scotland.

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Great Eastern Railway

The Great Eastern Railway (GER) was a pre-grouping British railway company, whose main line linked London Liverpool Street to Norwich and which had other lines through East Anglia.

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Greater Glasgow

Greater Glasgow is an urban settlement in Scotland consisting of all localities which are physically attached to the city of Glasgow, forming with it a single contiguous urban area (or conurbation).

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Handley Page V/1500

The Handley Page V/1500 was a British night-flying heavy bomber built by Handley Page towards the end of the First World War.

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Harland and Wolff

Harland & Wolff Heavy Industries is a heavy industrial company, specialising in ship repair, conversion, and offshore construction, located in Belfast, Northern Ireland.

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Harry Ricardo

Sir Harry Ralph Ricardo (26 January 1885 – 18 May 1974) was one of the foremost engine designers and researchers in the early years of the development of the internal combustion engine.

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Hendon

Hendon is a London suburb in the Borough of Barnet, northwest of Charing Cross.

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Ian MacGregor

Sir Ian Kinloch MacGregor, KBE (21 September 1912 – 13 April 1998) was a Scottish-American metallurgist and industrialist, most famous in the UK for his controversial tenure at British Steel Corporation and his conduct during the 1984–85 miners' strike while managing the National Coal Board.

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Inchinnan

Inchinnan (Scottish Gaelic: Innis Fhionghain) is a small village in Renfrewshire, Scotland.

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Indian locomotive class XC

The Indian locomotive class XC was a class of heavy axle load "Pacific" type steam locomotives used on broad gauge lines in British India, and then in post-partition India and Pakistan.

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Indian locomotive class XE

The Indian locomotive class XE was a class of "Mikado" type steam locomotives used on broad gauge lines in India.

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InfoTrac

InfoTrac is a family of full text databases of content from academic journals and general magazines, of which the majority are targeted to the English-speaking North American market.

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Interwar period

In the context of the history of the 20th century, the interwar period was the period between the end of the First World War in November 1918 and the beginning of the Second World War in September 1939.

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Iron and Steel Corporation of Great Britain

The Iron and Steel Corporation of Great Britain was a nationalised industry, set up in 1949 by Clement Attlee's Labour government.

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Ironclad warship

An ironclad is a steam-propelled warship protected by iron or steel armor plates used in the early part of the second half of the 19th century.

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Leyland Motors

Leyland Motors Limited was a British vehicle manufacturer of lorries, buses and trolleybuses.

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Lithgows

Lithgows Limited, is a family-owned Scottish company that had a long involvement in shipbuilding, based in Kingston, Port Glasgow on the River Clyde in Scotland.

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LMS Fowler Class 3F

The London Midland and Scottish Railway (LMS) Fowler 3F 0-6-0T is a class of steam locomotive, often known as Jinty.

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LNWR Prince of Wales Class

The London and North Western Railway (LNWR) Prince of Wales Class was a class of express passenger locomotive.

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Locomotive

A locomotive or engine is a rail transport vehicle that provides the motive power for a train.

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London and North Eastern Railway

The London and North Eastern Railway (LNER) was the second largest (after LMS) of the "Big Four" railway companies created by the Railways Act 1921 in Britain.

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London and North Western Railway

The London and North Western Railway (LNWR, L&NWR) was a British railway company between 1846 and 1922.

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London, Midland and Scottish Railway

The London, Midland and Scottish Railway (LMS)It has been argued that the initials LMSR should be used to be consistent with LNER, GWR and SR.

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Madras and Southern Mahratta Railway

The Madras and Southern Mahratta Railway was a railway company that operated in southern India.

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Mallet locomotive

The Mallet locomotive is a type of articulated steam railway locomotive, invented by the Swiss engineer Anatole Mallet (1837–1919).

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Metro Cammell Weymann

Metro Cammell Weymann (MCW) was once a major contributor in transportation manufacturing in the UK and Europe.

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Metropolitan Police Service

The Metropolitan Police Service (MPS), commonly known as the Metropolitan Police and informally as the Met, is the territorial police force responsible for law enforcement in Greater London, excluding the "square mile" of the City of London, which is the responsibility of the City of London Police.

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Motorcycle

A motorcycle, often called a bike, motorbike, or cycle, is a two-> or three-wheeled motor vehicle.

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Myanmar Railways

Myanma Railways (MR) (မြန်မာ့ မီးရထား,; also spelled Myanmar Railways; formerly Burma Railways) is the state-owned agency that operates the railway network in Myanmar.

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National Shipbuilders Securities

National Shipbuilders Securities was a UK Government body established in 1930, under the Chairmanship of Sir James Lithgow, of the eponymous Clyde shipbuilding giant Lithgows.

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Naval artillery

Naval artillery is artillery mounted on a warship, originally used only for naval warfare, later also for naval gunfire support against targets on land, and for anti-aircraft use.

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Naval ship

A naval ship is a military ship (or sometimes boat, depending on classification) used by a navy.

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Nieuport 12

The Nieuport 12 was a French sesquiplane reconnaissance, fighter aircraft and trainer used by France, Russia, Great Britain and the United States during World War I. Later production examples were built as trainers and served widely until the late 1920s.

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North Western Railway zone

The North Western Railway (abbreviated NWR and उपरे) is one of the seventeen railway zones in India.

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Oil tanker

An oil tanker, also known as a petroleum tanker, is a ship designed for the bulk transport of oil or its products.

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Olympia, London

Olympia is an exhibition centre, event space and conference centre in West Kensington, London, England.

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Overhead camshaft

Overhead camshaft, commonly abbreviated to OHC, is a valvetrain configuration which places the camshaft of an internal combustion engine of the reciprocating type within the cylinder heads ("above" the pistons and combustion chambers) and drives the valves or lifters in a more direct manner compared with overhead valves (OHV) and pushrods.

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Paisley, Renfrewshire

Paisley (Pàislig, Paisley) is the largest town in the historic county of Renfrewshire in the west central Lowlands of Scotland and serves as the administrative centre for the Renfrewshire council area.

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Parkhead

Parkhead (Pairkheid) is a district in the East End of Glasgow.

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Perkins Engines

Perkins Engines (officially Perkins Engines Company Limited), a subsidiary of Caterpillar Inc., is primarily a diesel engine manufacturer for several markets including Agricultural, Construction, Material Handling, Power Generation and Industrial.

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Private company limited by shares

A private company limited by shares is a class of private limited company incorporated under the laws of England and Wales, Scotland, certain Commonwealth countries, and the Republic of Ireland.

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R101

R101 was one of a pair of British rigid airships completed in 1929 as part of a British government programme to develop civil airships capable of service on long-distance routes within the British Empire.

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R23X-class airship

The British R23X class of rigid airships were developed during World War I using the experiences gained from the 23 class, but only two of the planned four R23X class were built: R27 and R29.

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R31-class airship

The R31 class of British rigid airships was constructed in the closing months of World War I and comprised two aircraft, His Majesty's Airship R31 and R32.

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R33-class airship

The R33 class of British rigid airships were built for the Royal Naval Air Service during the First World War, but were not completed until after the end of hostilities, by which time the RNAS had become part of the Royal Air Force.

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R36 (airship)

R36 was a British airship designed during World War I, but not completed until after the war.

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Railcar

A railcar, in British English and Australian English, is a self-propelled railway vehicle designed to transport passengers.

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Renfrew

Renfrew (Rinn Friù) is a town west of Glasgow, and the historical county town of Renfrewshire.

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Renfrewshire

Renfrewshire (Siorrachd Rinn Friù, Renfrewshire) is one of 32 council areas of Scotland.

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Robert Napier (engineer)

Robert Napier (21 June 1791 – 23 June 1876) was a Scottish marine engineer known for his contributions to Clyde Shipbuilding.

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Robert Napier and Sons

Messrs Robert Napier and Sons was a famous firm of Clyde shipbuilders and marine engineers at Govan, Glasgow founded by Robert Napier in 1826.

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ROF Dalmuir

ROF Dalmuir was an Engineering Royal Ordnance Factory owned by the UK government during World War II.

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Rohrbach Metall-Flugzeugbau

Rohrbach Metall-Flugzeugbau was an airplane factory located in Berlin, Germany and founded in 1922 by Dr.-Ing Adolf Rohrbach.

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Rohrbach Ro IV

The Rohrbach Ro IV, also known as the Beardmore BeRo.2 Inverness was an all-metal monoplane flying boat of the 1920s.

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Royal Air Force

The Royal Air Force (RAF) is the United Kingdom's aerial warfare force.

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Royal Aircraft Factory B.E.2

The Royal Aircraft Factory B.E.2 was a British single-engine tractor two-seat biplane designed and developed by the Royal Aircraft Factory.

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Royal Naval Air Service

The Royal Naval Air Service (RNAS) was the air arm of the Royal Navy, under the direction of the Admiralty's Air Department, and existed formally from 1 July 1914Admiralty Circular CW.13963/14, 1 July 1914: "Royal Naval Air Service – Organisation" to 1 April 1918, when it was merged with the British Army's Royal Flying Corps to form a new service, the Royal Air Force, the first of its kind in the world.

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Royal Navy

The Royal Navy (RN) is the United Kingdom's naval warfare force.

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Scotland

Scotland (Alba) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom and covers the northern third of the island of Great Britain.

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Sentinel Waggon Works

Sentinel Waggon Works Ltd was a British company based in Shrewsbury, Shropshire that made steam-powered lorries, railway locomotives, and later, diesel engined lorries and locomotives.

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Shelsley Walsh Speed Hill Climb

The Shelsley Walsh Speed Hill Climb is a hillclimb in Shelsley Walsh, Worcestershire, England, organised by the Midland Automobile Club (MAC).

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Shipbuilding

Shipbuilding is the construction of ships and other floating vessels.

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Shipyard

A shipyard (also called a dockyard) is a place where ships are built and repaired.

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Sir James Lithgow, 1st Baronet

Sir James Lithgow, 1st Baronet, (27 January 1883 – 23 February 1952) was a Scottish industrialist who played a major role in restructuring the British shipbuilding and steelmaking industries in the 1930s in addition to playing an important role in formulating public policy and supervising wartime production.

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Sister ship

A sister ship is a ship of the same class or of virtually identical design to another ship.

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Socialism

Socialism is a range of economic and social systems characterised by social ownership and democratic control of the means of production as well as the political theories and movements associated with them.

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Sopwith Camel

The Sopwith Camel was a British First World War single-seat biplane fighter aircraft introduced on the Western Front in 1917.

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Sopwith Pup

The Sopwith Pup was a British single-seater biplane fighter aircraft built by the Sopwith Aviation Company.

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Steam locomotive

A steam locomotive is a type of railway locomotive that produces its pulling power through a steam engine.

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Stressed skin

In mechanical engineering, stressed skin is a type of rigid construction, intermediate between monocoque and a rigid frame with a non-loaded covering.

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Strike action

Strike action, also called labor strike, labour strike, or simply strike, is a work stoppage caused by the mass refusal of employees to work.

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The Forge Shopping Centre

The Forge Shopping Centre (or Parkhead Forge) is in the East End of Glasgow, in Parkhead.

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Timeline of hydrogen technologies

This is a timeline of the history of hydrogen technology.

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Trade union

A trade union or trades union, also called a labour union (Canada) or labor union (US), is an organization of workers who have come together to achieve many common goals; such as protecting the integrity of its trade, improving safety standards, and attaining better wages, benefits (such as vacation, health care, and retirement), and working conditions through the increased bargaining power wielded by the creation of a monopoly of the workers.

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Trimotor

A trimotor is an aircraft powered by three engines and represents a compromise between complexity and safety and was often a result of the limited power of the engines available to the designer.

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Vickers Limited

Vickers Limited was a significant British engineering conglomerate that merged into Vickers-Armstrongs in 1927.

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Washwood Heath

Washwood Heath is a ward in Birmingham, within the formal district of Hodge Hill, roughly two miles north-east of Birmingham city centre, England.

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Wight Seaplane

The Wight Seaplane was a British twin-float seaplane produced by J Samuel White & Company Limited (Wight Aircraft).

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William Beardmore, 1st Baron Invernairn

William Beardmore, 1st Baron Invernairn DL (16 October 1856 – 9 April 1936), known as Sir William Beardmore, Bt, between 1914 and 1921, was an Anglo-Scottish industrialist, founding the eponymous William Beardmore and Company.

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World War I

World War I (often abbreviated as WWI or WW1), also known as the First World War, the Great War, or the War to End All Wars, was a global war originating in Europe that lasted from 28 July 1914 to 11 November 1918.

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World War II

World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier.

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0-6-0

Under the Whyte notation for the classification of steam locomotives, represents the wheel arrangement of no leading wheels, six powered and coupled driving wheels on three axles and no trailing wheels.

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0-6-2

Under the Whyte notation for the classification of steam locomotives, represents the wheel arrangement of no leading wheels, six powered and coupled driving wheels on three axles and two trailing wheels on one axle.

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0-6-6-0

Under the Whyte notation for the classification of steam locomotives, a wheel arrangement refers to a locomotive with two engine units mounted under a rigid locomotive frame, with the front engine unit pivoting and each engine unit with six coupled driving wheels without any leading or trailing wheels.

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2-8-0

Under the Whyte notation for the classification of steam locomotives, represents the wheel arrangement of two leading wheels on one axle, usually in a leading truck, eight powered and coupled driving wheels on four axles and no trailing wheels.

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2-8-2

Under the Whyte notation for the classification of steam locomotives, represents the wheel arrangement of two leading wheels on one axle, usually in a leading truck, eight powered and coupled driving wheels on four axles and two trailing wheels on one axle, usually in a trailing truck.

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23-class airship

The 23 class were rigid airships produced in the United Kingdom during the First World War.

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4-6-0

Under the Whyte notation for the classification of steam locomotives by wheel arrangement, represents the configuration of four leading wheels on two axles in a leading bogie, six powered and coupled driving wheels on three axles and no trailing wheels.

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4-6-2

Under the Whyte notation for the classification of steam locomotives, represents the wheel arrangement of four leading wheels on two axles, six powered and coupled driving wheels on three axles and two trailing wheels on one axle.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Beardmore_and_Company

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