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A Halfords in Kirkstall, Leeds (2006). Halfords was founded by Frederick Rushbrooke, in Birmingham in 1892, as a wholesale ironmongery. [3] The company takes its name from Halford Street, named after the physician, Henry Halford, in Leicester, where Rushbrooke opened a store in 1902 and started selling cycling goods.
On 18 February 2010, it was confirmed that bike and car parts chain Halfords was to buy the company in a £73.2 million deal. The first four rebranded Halfords Autocentres opened in Derby on 24 May 2010, plus one in Solihull. Over three hundred Halfords Autocentre outlets are now open across the United Kingdom.
The few "new build" container flats are identifiable by their lack of decking, welded steel frame, and standard 89-foot (27.13 m) length. One variant is the 50-foot (15.24 m) car (which usually carries one large container as a load); these are actually re-built old boxcars .
An air mattress as might be used for temporary guest accommodation. An air mattress is an inflatable mattress or sleeping pad.. Due to its buoyancy, it is also often used as a water toy or flotation device, and in some countries, including the UK and South Africa, is called a lilo ("Li-lo" being a specific trademark — derived from the phrase "lie low") or a Readybed.
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President-elect Donald Trump complained on Friday that American flags would still be lowered to half-staff in honor of the late President Jimmy Carter during Trump's Jan. 20 inauguration.
The minimum bid was US$3 million and the sale closed January 16, 2003. [2] The city of Carlotta, California was up for auction on eBay in February 2003. [3] In September 2004, the Indiana Firebirds arena football team was auctioned off, first in a regular auction that failed to reach the reserve price, [4] and again as a "Buy it Now" item for ...
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