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In his later buildings, Pullen often employed the services of the architect and Le Corbusier admirer Joyce Lowman. [7] Pullen gained a reputation as a builder of innovative houses [8] and luxury apartments, and examples of these buildings can be found at Florida Court in Bromley, [9] with three blocks in a low-density, five-acre landscaped plot.
Tom Rolfe (April 14, 1962 – June 12, 1989) was an American Thoroughbred racehorse and sire. He was the leading colt of his generation in the United States, winning the Preakness Stakes and being voted American Champion Three-Year-Old Male Horse in 1965.
Richard "Racehorse" Haynes (April 3, 1927 – April 28, 2017) was a Texas criminal defense attorney. He became a star of the legal world after prevailing in a series of seemingly impossible murder trials in Texas in the 1970s and 1980s. [1] Time magazine named him one of the top defense attorneys in the nation. [1]
For services to Horse Racing. William Albert Fairhurst, ... Joyce Scadeng Lever, ... Francis Ernest Osborne. Formerly Chief Test Engineer, Rolls-Royce Ltd., Spadeadam ...
Bentley Motors Limited is the direct successor of Rolls-Royce Motors and its predecessor entities and owns historical Rolls-Royce assets such as the Crewe factory, pre-2003 vehicle designs and the L Series V8 engine. Rolls-Royce Motor Cars, a subsidiary of BMW AG established in 1998 that began production of vehicles in 2003.
Rolls-Royce, and their subsidiary, Bentley, became the main supplier of rolling chassis for the coachbuilding trade. [9] Hooper's management decided to end production of coachbuilt bodies after Rolls-Royce's plans to cease series production of separate-chassis cars and use unibody construction exclusively became known to them in 1958.
Claude Johnson brought the necessary business acumen to the partnership of Rolls and Royce. The board soon recognised that Royce was a poor production engineer but a brilliant designer. In 1908 after four years of incessant work Royce's health failed. Johnson persuaded the increasingly temperamental Royce to work at home with a team of ...
Rolls-Royce Motor Cars, the current car manufacturing company incorporated in 1998, a subsidiary of BMW Group; Rolls-Royce Motors, owner of the former car division incorporated in 1973, bought by Vickers in 1980, a subsidiary of Volkswagen Group from 1998 to 2002; List of Rolls-Royce motor cars