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The Merkur toys were made throughout the communist period and were exported all over Europe. The company was privatized by some of the former employees after 1989, but went into insolvency in 1993. Later on, Jaromír Kříž bought out the company and during three years he got back the production and saved this renowned Czech toy.
Merkur (German pronunciation: [mɛʁˈkuːɐ̯], Mercury) is a North American brand of automobiles marketed by the Lincoln-Mercury division of Ford Motor Company for model years 1985-1989. Drawing its name from the German word for Mercury, Merkur, the brand targeted buyers of European executive cars , marketing two captive import models ...
Items bearing the Keen Kutter trademark are considered collectible. There were numerous items produced which have cross collectibility.Pocket knives, hand tools, railway locks, and advertising items from Keen Kutter are of interest to many collectors.
List of bicycle parts by alphabetic order: Axle : as in the generic definition, a rod that serves to attach a wheel to a bicycle and provides support for bearings on which the wheel rotates. Also sometimes used to describe suspension components, for example a swing arm pivot axle
Merkur (toy), a metal construction set built in Czechoslovakia; Operation Merkur, a German airborne attack during the Battle of Crete in World War II; Merkur (mountain), in the Black Forest near Baden-Baden, Germany; RD Merkur, a team handball club from Škofja Loka, Slovenia; Merkur Spiel-Arena, a stadium in Düsseldorf, Germany
One astronaut trims the hair of another on the International Space Station (ISS). A Wahl clipper attached to a vacuum cleaner was used to remove the free-floating hair clippings. [8] Leo Wahl took over his uncle's manufacturing business after Frank left to serve in the Spanish–American War in 1898. Leo continued to work on his inventions and ...
While offered as a five-door hatchback, the Merkur Scorpio was similar in appearance to the Mercury Sable.In comparison to the first-generation (1986-1991) Mercury Sable, the Scorpio was 4.5 inches shorter in length (2 inches shorter than the Ford Taurus), 1.3 inches narrower, and 2.7 inches longer in wheelbase; the two models were nearly identical in height.
King C. Gillette wearing a Panama hat, circa 1908. This is said to be Gillette's favorite picture of himself. [15]Gillette was also a Utopian Socialist. [16] He published a book titled The Human Drift (1894) [17] which advocated that all industry should be taken over by a single corporation owned by the public, and that everyone in the US should live in a giant city called Metropolis powered ...