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Blue Star multiple working equipment on a Class 40 locomotive A Class 73 and a Class 33 locomotive being coupled for multiple working. On the rail network in Great Britain, multiple working is where two or more traction units (locomotives, diesel multiple units or electric multiple units) are coupled together in such a way that they are all under the control of one driver (multiple-unit train ...
Merchant ships owned by Blue Star Line or companies controlled by it: Booth Steamship Company (1946 onwards) Frederick Leyland and Company (1935 onwards) Lamport and Holt (1944 onwards) Union Cold Storage Company
The system is a catalogue of specifications in the English language, to allow buyers to purchase standardised materials all over the world. When MESC was initially introduced, materials were allocated a unique 7-digit number. This was increased to ten digits in 1946. [1] The system has a numerical "coding schedule" of 10 digits to code the ...
The Blue Star Line acquired Frederick Leyland and Company in 1935 and operated it as a subsidiary. [1] [2] Blue Star expanded into passenger transport, notably with five 12,900 GRT liners built in 1926–27 for its new London – Rio de Janeiro – Buenos Aires route. Cammell Laird of Birkenhead built three sister ships: Almeda, Andalucia and ...
GSC — Guide Star Catalog. GSC2 / GSC II — Guide Star Catalog II; GSPC — Guide Star Photometric Catalog. GSPC2 — Guide Star Photometric Catalog, 2nd; Gsh — J. Glaisher (double stars) GΣ — G. Struve (double stars) Gtb — K. Gottlieb (double stars) Gui — J. Guillaume (double stars) Gum — Gum catalog of emission nebulae
The New General Catalogue of Nebulae and Clusters of Stars (abbreviated NGC) is an astronomical catalogue of deep-sky objects compiled by John Louis Emil Dreyer in 1888. The NGC contains 7,840 objects, including galaxies , star clusters and emission nebulae .
Blue Star was founded in 1943 by Mohan T Advani as a reconditioning company. [4] [5] Soon after inception, Blue Star ventured into the manufacturing of ice candy machines and bottle coolers and began the design, execution of central air conditioning projects, followed by the manufacturing of water coolers.
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