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The Lark, in particular, was based on existing parts to the degree that it even used the central body section of the company's 1953–58 cars, but was a clever enough design to be popular in its first year, selling over 130,000 units and delivering a $28.6 million profit to the automaker ($298,928,767 in 2023 dollars [15]). "S-P rose from ...
The Thymallus, a "fish car" of the Montana State Fish Service, c. 1910. The attendants are loading stainless steel milk cans filled with fish onto the car. The first all-steel fish car was built in 1916. Fish car technology improved again in the early 1920s as the milk cans that had been used were replaced by newer tanks, known as "Fearnow" pails.
The production car "quickly became popular". [1] It used an 816 cc flat twin water-cooled engine of 6.4 hp [3] and three-speed gearbox with tiller steering. The body was a lightweight open two-seater. Learning popular opinion was that 10 hp was a minimum Jowett advertised their third car as being 8 hp without changing the specification.
Part of West Swindon, a council estate built 1980–84. Walcot East; Built from 1956. Walcot West (Old Walcot) Built from the mid-1930s. Westmead; Westlea; The West Swindon shopping centre, the first out of town, has a supermarket and other small shops; later the Link Centre, a leisure centre with an ice rink and swimming pool, was added. West ...
CarGurus was founded in 2006 by Langley Steinert, a co-founder of TripAdvisor. [3] Langley Steinert was the company's CEO until January 2021, when CFO Jason Trevisan was named as the company's CEO. [4]
By 2009, Honda had invested almost £1.4 billion in the Swindon plants. [2] In 2008, they produced 230,423 cars. [1] In 2016, annual unit production was down to 134,146 units. [3] In early 2019, it was announced the entire manufacturing plant in Swindon would close. The plant closed on 30 July 2021, ending over 36 years of Honda production in ...
Swindon Corporation was the local council formed by the 1901 Municipal Borough charter, and Swindon Corporation Tramways started to operate electric trams in 1904.. Motor-bus operation started in 1927 and two years later all the trams were replaced by this form of transport.
The first borough of Swindon was a municipal borough, created in 1900 as a merger of the two urban districts of Old Swindon and New Swindon. [2]In 1974 the borough of Thamesdown was created under the Local Government Act 1972.