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1934 Freighter. Shelvoke and Drewry was a Letchworth, Hertfordshire, manufacturer of special purpose commercial vehicles.It was best known for its innovative waste collection vehicles that were the preferred choice of municipal authorities in the UK together with their gully emptiers, cesspool cleaning vehicles and street watering and washing vehicles.
The Special Purpose Vehicle (SPV) Division was formed in 1975 after Shelvoke & Drewry ceased to produce fork lift trucks. A wide range of specialised vehicles was developed including fire appliances and airport service vehicles. SD fire appliances for the most part used a version of the P-Series Ogle cab, although some used custom Carmichael cabs.
A special-purpose entity (SPE; or, in Europe and India, special-purpose vehicle/SPV; or, in some cases in each EU jurisdiction, FVC, financial vehicle corporation) is a legal entity (usually a limited company of some type or, sometimes, a limited partnership) created to fulfill narrow, specific or temporary objectives.
The company became listed on NASDAQ by merging with special-purpose acquisition company CIIG Merger Corp. [10] In February 2024, after getting its stock delisted from the Nasdaq, Arrival's UK division entered administration, with future plans of a sale of Arrival and all of its affiliated assets. [11]
The Instrument in Support of Trade Exchanges (INSTEX) was a European special-purpose vehicle (SPV) established on 31 January 2019 and liquidated in March 2023. Its stated mission was to facilitate non-USD and non-SWIFT [1] [2] transactions with Iran to avoid breaking U.S. sanctions. [3]
The company was also contracted to develop and certify an armour solution for the 700 Supacat Jackal vehicles for the UK MoD. As part of this process Jankel discovered that all the seats available on the market were not fit for purpose to protect the soldiers in light vehicles from blast acceleration in particular.
The HMT was designed in mid-1999 by HMT Supacat Limited later renamed to HMT Vehicles Limited. In 2004, Lockheed Martin entered into a licence agreement with HMT Vehicles Ltd to manufacture and sell the HMT in North America. [6] In 2006, Lockheed Martin (UK) acquired HMT Vehicles Ltd who licensed the design back to Supacat. [7]
Constellation Automotive Group is a used vehicle marketplace. It was founded in the United Kingdom in 1946, as Southern Counties Car Auctions, and was a publicly traded company, BCA Marketplace, when acquired and taken private by TDR Capital in November 2019. TDR rebranded it to the current name in October 2020.