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    The Metropolitan-Vickers F.2 is an early turbojet engine and the first British design to be based on an axial-flow compressor. It was an extremely advanced...
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  • Metrovick 950, and the first British axial-flow jet engine, the Metropolitan-Vickers F.2. Its factory in Trafford Park, Manchester, was for most of the...
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    Flanders F.2, a 1911 British experimental single-seat monoplane aircraft Fokker F.II, a 1919 German early airliner Metropolitan-Vickers F.2, a 1941 British...
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  • of Britain's first operational axial-flow turbojet engine, the Metropolitan-Vickers F.2, which first ran successfully in 1941. Griffith, however, had little...
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    axial-flow turbojet to run outside Germany (after the British Metropolitan-Vickers F.2). A simple and robust unit with six-stage compressor, annular combustor...
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    a Lancaster was converted to become an engine test bed for the Metropolitan-Vickers F.2 turbojet. Lancasters were later used to test other engines, including...
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    Royal Air Force, the Royal Aircraft Establishment, Saunders-Roe, Metropolitan-Vickers and at least one unidentified foreign government. Subsequent flight...
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    Works, and had built the Osram electric light company in 1893. The Metropolitan-Vickers F.2 of Trafford Park Works, Manchester was the first axial-flow jet...
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    the German BMW 003 (1940), the Jumo 004 (1940), and the British Metropolitan-Vickers F.2 (1941). The first Rolls-Royce axial-flow engine, the Avon, first...
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    Junkers Jumo 004 (redirect from YuF)
    Lockheed J37 – first American axial-flow jet engine design attempt Metropolitan-Vickers F.2 Westinghouse J30 – first operable American axial-flow jet engine...
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    of Supply designation of the original Metropolitan-Vickers F.9 Sapphire, derived from the Metropolitan-Vickers F.2/4 Beryl. Design work on this much larger...
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    particular its 003D subtype Junkers Jumo 004 Junkers Jumo 012 Metropolitan-Vickers F.2 Related lists List of aircraft engines List of aircraft engines...
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  • rolling stock group (Metropolitan Carriage Wagon and Finance Company and The Metropolitan-Vickers Company) and the disposal of: Vickers-Petters Limited British...
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  • the axial-flow Metropolitan-Vickers F.2 jet engine in November 1943, which was the fifth Meteor prototype, and the Metropolitan-Vickers (MetroVick) engines...
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  • Canadian Vickers Limited was an aircraft and shipbuilding company that operated in Canada from 1911 until 1944. A subsidiary of Vickers Limited, it built...
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    p. 199; Vickers, pp. 137–138 Vickers, pp. 124–127, 165 Vickers, pp. 178–179 Vickers, p. 370 Bloch, The Duchess of Windsor, p. 222 Vickers, pp. 158–168...
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    the Kandó system. It had a wheel arrangement of 1'D1' or 2-8-2 and a single Metropolitan-Vickers traction motor driving through side rods. Power for the...
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    British Rail 18100 (category Metropolitan-Vickers locomotives)
    turbine–electric locomotive built for British Railways in 1951 by Metropolitan-Vickers, Manchester. It had, however, been ordered by the Great Western Railway...
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  • powered by two electric motors. The Mobile Land Mine was designed by Metropolitan-Vickers in 1940. After a successful demonstration in August 1941 an order...
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    which hired General Electric, Central hired the British company Metropolitan-Vickers to supply various equipment, including 30 electric locomotives. The...
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    pilots. On 27 October 1972, Air Inter Flight 696Y, a Vickers Viscount 724 (registration F-BMCH)[2] operating a scheduled night flight from Lyon to Clermont-Ferrand...
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    the myth of the hero in Eudora Welty's novels." Garber & Vickers 2003, p. 7. Garber & Vickers 2003, p. 1. Wilk 2000, pp. 217–218. Griselda Pollock (2013)...
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  • Air Ferry. A provisional base was established at Ramsgate Airport. Two Vickers Viking aircraft were purchased from Autair International Airways (later...
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  • on board. July 13 – In the 1928 Imperial Airways Vickers Vulcan crash, an Imperial Airways Vickers Vulcan on a test flight from Croydon Airport, England...
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    The Metropolitan Opera is an American opera company based in New York City, currently resident at the Metropolitan Opera House at Lincoln Center, situated...
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    Westinghouse type in 1919. In the early 1920s, the Met placed an order with Metropolitan-Vickers of Barrow-in-Furness for rebuilding the 20 electric locomotives....
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  • Metropolitan Routes in South Africa, also called Metro Roads or Metro Routes are designated with the letter M, and are usually major routes around cities...
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    third-most populous metropolitan area in the United Kingdom as a part of Greater Manchester, which has a population of approximately 2.92 million.  It is...
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    a metropolitan population of approximately 212,579 (as of 9 February 2022), the St. John's Metropolitan Area is Canada's 20th-largest metropolitan area...
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