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Belleek Pottery Ltd is a porcelain company that began trading in 1884 as the Belleek Pottery Works Company Ltd in Belleek, County Fermanagh, Ireland in what was to later become Northern Ireland. The factory produces Parian ware that is characterised by its thinness, slightly iridescent surface and body formulated with a significant proportion ...
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The Mark 1 guns were upgraded to Marks 5 and 8 in the late 1930s. The Mark 5s have a larger chamber to permit larger charges and a new liner with a heavier taper carbon steel along with a liner locking ring and locking collar. The Mark 8, similar to the Mark 5, had a uniform rifling with a chromium plated bore for increased life. [1] [3]
The Bliss-Leavitt Mark 1 torpedo was a Bliss-Leavitt torpedo adopted by the United States Navy for use in an anti-surface ship role after the E. W. Bliss Company of Brooklyn, New York, which had been building Whitehead torpedoes for the US Navy, began designing and manufacturing their own torpedoes in 1904.
Mark 1: BR Doncaster, Wolverton and Gloucester RCW Mark 2: BR Derby: Family name: British Railways Mark 1, British Rail Mark 2: Constructed: Mark 1: 1955–1963 Mark 2: 1966–1974: Number built: 340: Fleet numbers: 9200–9539: Capacity: Mark 1: 39 Mark 2/A–D: 31 Mark 2E/F: 32: Operators: British Rail: Specifications; Car length: 66 ft 0 in ...
The end of the war led to cancellation after 102 were produced out of the first order for 450. [1] Of these only 45 were taken into service by the British Army, the remaining 57 probably going straight to the scrapyard. [1] After the war the type was quickly phased out in favour of the Mark C. Two vehicles were used by the North Russian Tank ...
The prototype Gun Carrier Mark I (War Department serial number GC 100) was 30 ft (9.1 m) long, and included a Tank Mark I steering tail; with the tail and carrying a gun, the equipment was 43 ft (13 m) long. The vehicle was 11 ft (3.4 m) wide and 9 ft 4 in (2.84 m) high.
The Ruger Standard Model is a rimfire semi-automatic pistol introduced in 1949 as the first product manufactured by Sturm, Ruger & Co., and was the founding member of a product line of .22 Long Rifle cartridge handguns, including its later iterations: the MK II, MK III, and MK IV.