• past: the Beaufighter, Blenheim, Britannia and Brigand. In February 1997, Crook, then aged 77, sold a fifty per cent holding in Bristol Cars to Toby Silverton...
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    The Bristol 411 is an automobile which was built by the British manufacturer Bristol Cars from 1969 to 1976. It was the fifth series of Chrysler-V8 engined...
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    aircraft produced by the company include the 'Boxkite', the Bristol Fighter, the Bulldog, the Blenheim, the Beaufighter, and the Britannia, and much of the preliminary...
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    Patchway. Bristol Aeroplane was known for their World War I Bristol Fighter and World War II Blenheim and Beaufighter planes. During the 1950s they were a major...
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    The Bristol 408 is a British luxury car made by Bristol Cars between 1963 and 1966. Unusually for Bristol, a slightly revised version was launched during...
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    The Bristol Type 170 Superfreighter Mk 32 was a larger, stretched version of the Bristol Freighter designed for Silver City Airways for use on the short...
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    technical manager of the Bristol Aeroplane Company in the United Kingdom, where he designed several aeroplanes known as the Bristol-Coanda Monoplanes. In...
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    the Tower of London, the Jurassic Coast, Saltaire, Ironbridge Gorge, Blenheim Palace and the Lake District. London's British Museum holds more than seven...
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    initially manufacturing aircraft, one of the first types being the Bristol Blenheim. Production included a Royal Air Force heavy bomber, the Handley Page...
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    1925-origin nine-cylinder Mercury were used to power the Westland Lysander, Bristol Blenheim, and Blackburn Skua. In the years leading up to World War II, as the...
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    are, or will be hosting Formula One and/or MotoGP Grand Prix. Circuit Automobile d'Arcole, Bir El Djir Circuit de Bouzaréah, Bouzaréah Circuit Urbain de...
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  • French Potez 25, Czechoslovakian Avia BH-33 and English Hawker Fury; Bristol Blenheim as well as the locally designed Ikarus ŠM, Ikarus IO, SIM-VIII, Ikarus...
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    Cunningham rejoined his squadron, now equipped with a version of the Bristol Blenheim. His observer was Jimmy Rawnsley, who would serve as his gunner and...
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  • 2279, a BAe Jetstream 32, is hijacked 10 minutes after taking off from Blenheim, New Zealand by a passenger who attacks both pilots. The hijacker is eventually...
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    a triumphant tour of New Zealand, flying in Bristol Fighters. The return to Sydney was made from Blenheim, a small city at the north of the South Island...
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    routines, and synchronized maneuvers. Bristol Blenheim A British light bomber designed and built by the Bristol Aeroplane Company, which was used extensively...
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    century Baroque architecture – popular in Europe – was introduced, and Blenheim Palace was built in this era. However, Baroque was quickly replaced by...
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  • made available to the RAF in 1939 and fitted to Bristol Blenheim aircraft (replaced quickly by Bristol Beaufighters). These measures greatly increased...
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    targets over the Dunkirk area but suffered many losses. On 21 June, 37 Bristol Blenheims were destroyed.[citation needed] To the east, Army Group C was to...
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    fly at the Bristol flying school at Brooklands, and he gained Pilot Certificate No. 68 in three hours. Later in 1911, he joined the Bristol Aeroplane Company...
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    with exception of dedicated air defense crews. Around 17:00 twelve Bristol Blenheim bombers from 55 Squadron and 211 Squadron RAF bombed the northern part...
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  • of Transport and Technology, Auckland Omaka Aviation Heritage Centre, Blenheim, New Zealand Warbirds and Wheels, Wānaka Nigerian War Museum Flyhistorisk...
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  • Retrieved 26 April 2015. "Facebook site". Bruce A. Elder Antique and Classic Automobiles. Retrieved 8 October 2015. "Brunswick County Museum". Virginia is for...
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    producing a variety of aircraft models including Ansons, Manchesters and Bristol Blenheims. During the Second World War, 3,050 Avro Lancaster bombers were built...
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  • cost the group one Ju 88; downed by No. 236 Squadron RAF operating Bristol Blenheims. The Catherine's Head operation cost it one aircraft shot down by...
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  • Ashfield, Plt. Off. Geoffrey Morris and Sgt. Reginald Leyland in a Bristol Blenheim, intercept and down a Luftwaffe Dornier Do 17Z in the English Channel...
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    /KG 1's base at Amiens was attacked by No. 607 Squadron RAF. The six Bristol Blenheim's began there attack in cloudy weather but it was not sufficient to...
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    casualties at the factory and 107 in the surrounding area. 80 Bristol Beaufort and Bristol Blenheims were destroyed and dozens of others damaged. RAF fighters...
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  • Milne French, Chief Supervisor, Talisman Telephone Exchange, Edinburgh. Blenheim Charles Fry, Station Officer, London Fire Brigade. Thomas Gaskell, lately...
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