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The first Percival type to be allocated a "P" number was the P.40 Prentice. Previous designs (including unflown designs) were unofficially allocated such a number by the Percival Sales Manager in 1944 when Percival was acquired by the Hunting Group. However, this was "purely a cosmetic exercise" and such numbers have no actual basis in history.
Leo Heikkinen in 1960. Leo Leonard Heikkinen (June 11, 1917 – September 10, 1999) [1] was an American entrepreneur and millionaire who founded and owned numerous forestry production companies in Prentice, Wisconsin, including Prentice Hydraulics, Inc. (now a division of Caterpillar, Inc.) [2] and Multitek North America, LLC. [1]
Designed to meet Air Ministry Specification T.23/43, the Prentice was the first all-metal aircraft to be produced by the Percival Aircraft Company.The first (of 5) prototypes, Prentice TV163 [1] was first flown by Leonard Carruthers from Percival's factory at Luton Airport, Bedfordshire, on 31 March 1946.
Corps Commander - Operational Manoeuvre Group (Bruce Rea Taylor, 1986) Desert Whirlwind V 6 (Computer Moderated Miniature Wargame Rules) (Computer Strategies, 2007) Dogs of War (modern skirmish) (JC McDaniel, Devil Dog Design, 2002) Flashpoint Vietnam (Flashpoint Miniatures, 2006) Fox Two (David Manley, 1995) Harpoon (Clash of Arms Games)
Mini (stylised as MINI) [1] is a British automotive brand founded in Oxford in 1969, owned by German multinational automotive company BMW since 2000, and used by them for a range of small cars assembled in the United Kingdom, Austria, Netherlands (until 16 February 2024) and Germany. The word Mini has been used in car model names since 1959 ...
[25] [48] [50] In 1985, Bob Charrette began producing a line of miniature robot war machines for a game that was first called "Battledroids" and renamed BattleTech in 1986, for FASA's game of the same name. [25] It was the beginning of a permanent relationship between the two companies that would eventually lead to Ral Partha's sale to FASA.
Product Miniature Company, or known by the acronym PMC, was a company that manufactured pre-assembled plastic promotional models cars, banks and toys in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. It was started by brothers William Edward "Ed" and Paul Ford in 1946. Car model production, the company mainstay, ended about 1965.
Prentice Hall is the publisher of Magruder's American Government as well as Biology by Ken Miller and Joe Levine, and Sociology and Society: The Basics by John Macionis. Their artificial intelligence series includes Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach by Stuart J. Russell and Peter Norvig and ANSI Common Lisp by Paul Graham.